Political economy in the era of climate capitalism: Thoughts on Dieselgate, carbon fetishism and libidinal economy
Do you remember the Dieselgate scandal that the German car giant Volkswagen was involved with? In this short essay, Steffen Boehm argues the scandal can be read through the lens of “carbon fetichism”: an extreme obsession with carbon emissions that has taken hold of large parts of environmental policymaking and activism. Read on!
How Javier Milei’s ‘anarcho-capitalism’ is set to deepen extractivism in Argentina
Policy reform proposals from ultra-right libertarian and self-defined ‘anarcho-capitalist’ Javier Milei, Argentina’s new president, promise transformation but risk deepening extractivism. Read more from Paula Serafini!
Regional Value Chains and Governance of Decent Work in Sub-Saharan Africa
New research on horticulture and garment value chains in Kenya and South Africa sheds light onto rising South-South trade and the emergence of domestic and regional value chains.
Financialised capitalism and emerging economies
How does finance work through global production networks to produce highly unequal economic realities? Read more about the work of Jeff Powell and co-authors on financialised capitalism to find out.
From CLGP to CLaSP
In our inaugural post, we recover the history of CLaSP since its foundation in 2016, delineating how the Centre has evolved to pursue distinct threads of work that unpack business and management in historically informed and politically engaged ways.
