In the latest issue of The World Review of Political Economy

Our MAY NEWSLETTER https://bit.ly/PJMay24 presents the latest issue of The World Review of Political Economy Volume 15 Issue 1. David Laibman?considers how interest in “socialism” is growing throughout the world but that too often it simply means belief in equality, democracy and solidarity with working and oppressed people. In “Multilevel Democratic Iterative Coordination (MDIC): A Path for Socialism beyond the Market/Central Planning Dilemma”Laibman notes that a necessary re-envisioned theory of a socialist system can draw upon both historical experience and modern technology.

In “The Innovative Development of Digital Public Capital under the Conditions of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics”?authors?Xiuli Zhao, Xiaojie Gao, and Yang Yang?note how the digital economy, within the socialist market economy with Chinese characteristics, is becoming the core driver and new motive force of economic growth.

Sergio Ordó?ez’s article “Global Production Networks and Dynamic Cores in the World’s Main Nodes: The Technological-Productive Transition of the Automotive Industry" examines how the global automotive industry is undergoing a profound transformation due to the transition to electric and autonomous vehicles. ?

Omar Osman presents a theoretical view of how the rooted Western imperial political structure in the Arab region has trapped the latter in a perpetual development crisis in his article?“Western Domination, Destructive Governance, and the Perpetual Development Crisis in the Arab Region”.

In “Shifting Sands and the Unreason of State: Review of Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt US Energy Policy by Robert Vitalis”?Michael Keaney?considers how at a time of intensifying global conflict and corresponding reconfiguration of supply chains in line with national security prerogatives, the contradictions inherent in the “rules-based order” supported by and supporting US global hegemony are becoming ever more apparent and unsustainable.

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