by Daniel Krähmer | Sep 16, 2011
The political economy of changePraise for Hein Marais’ latest book“An extraordinary achievement. This is, by a considerable margin, the best book yet on the political economy of South Africa. Marais combines an unrivalled knowledge of the literature with a prose style...
by Daniel Krähmer | Oct 6, 2011
“It is now clear that the world is slipping — or has already slipped — into a new economic downturn, and that this will have serious consequences for the developing countries. Indeed, some prominent economists have warned that this time the crisis...
by Daniel Krähmer | Oct 6, 2011
The first difficulty in talking about ‘postmodernism’ is that it is a very imprecise word, with shifting meanings in different contexts. Logically, it should be regarded as the ‘post-’ of ‘modernism’—as something that happens after modernism per se. Now, the term...
by Daniel Krähmer | Oct 13, 2011
We are not blinded by the moral reparation of national independence; nor are we fed by it. The wealth of the imperial countries is our wealth too…. So when we hear the head of a European state declare with his hand on his heart that he must come to the aid of...
by Daniel Krähmer | Oct 13, 2011
I was honored to be invited to speak at Occupy Wall Street on Thursday night. Since amplification is (disgracefully) banned, and everything I say will have to be repeated by hundreds of people so others can hear (a k a “the human microphone”), what I actually say at...
