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ECONOMICS has sometimes been described as “the dismal science.” These people have clearly never had the pleasure of listening to Professor Radhika Desai.
To be precise Desai is a political economist — the discipline that she told me also more accurately describes the work of Karl Marx.
Desai, to be even more precise, puts forward geopolitical economics as part of a Marxist framework for developing a better understanding of how the international relations of capitalism integrate politics, history, class and nation.
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