Democratic economic planning and ecological transition
Michael Beggs | October 26, 2026
This seminar considers the ecological and systemic arrangements for a postcapitalist political economy.
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Hicks mistakenly credits Keynes for coining ‘liquidity’, 1962
Michael Beggs | July 23, 2019
In June 1962, John Hicks devoted his Royal Economic Society Presidential Address to the concept of ‘liquidity’. Whereas many terms of economics were drawn from practical commercial life, he believed ‘liquidity’ was a rare example of traffic in the other direction. A piece of theoretical [...]
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‘Liquidity’, a keyword in the history of capitalism: Introduction
Michael Beggs | June 18, 2019
liquidity, n.: Econ. The interchangeability of assets and money.
Oxford English Dictionary, 2 ed. (1989).You don’t anywhere come right out in the open and say what liquidity is.
Joan Robinson (1935) Letter to John Maynard Keynes.a highly complex phenomenon. Its [...]
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Why Class Matters
Michael Beggs | January 27, 2016
When Erik Olin Wright ‘fell into Marxism’ in the 1970s, it was ‘the only game in town’ for a serious radical scholar, and in the process of storming the academic social sciences. By the 1990s this was no longer so, with Marxism retreating to the margins inside and outside the academy. Wright [...]
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