Political science and economic science … make use of the same language, the same mode of abstraction, the same instruments of thought and the same method of reasoning (Black 1998, p. 354). Economics imperialism refers to the application of (mainstream) economic methods to the study of phenomena outside the traditional domain of economics. Uskali Mäki (forthcoming) has recently presented a typol...

China, one of the world’s oldest civilisations and now routinely cited as the world’s second largest economy, has declared its ambition to rejuvenate and prosper under the government of President Xi Jinping. Since the slogan 'Chinese Dream' was promulgated in 2012, Chinese scholars have been made aware of a new impetus in the promotion of Chinese language and culture. However, globalisation has...

Two features of the capitalist world economy in the early years of the new century must be noted at the outset. The first is the continuing, indeed overwhelming, significance of imperialism as the defining feature of global economic relations, with imperialism broadly defined as the struggle by large capital over control over economic territory of various types. The second is that this current ...

John Hobson’s theory of Imperialism has remarkable relevance for contemporary relations between the United States and Asia/Europe. A reconstruction of his argument shows that whereas the Bretton Woods period presents Hobson’s preferred non-imperial outcome, this outcome was not stable. Instead, the dynamics that brought about Imperialism in the first place eroded Bretton Woods and returned us t...

We exploit the recent declassification of CIA documents and examine whether there is evidence of US power being used to influence countries’ decisions regarding international trade. We measure US influence using a newly constructed annual panel of CIA interventions aimed at installing and supporting leaders during the Cold War. Our presumption is that the US had greater influence over foreign l...

This paper interrogates the changing paradigm in evolution of traditional African proverbs postcolonial setting which Hausa youth create centered around power both social media and their technologies. In this context, notion colonized subjects, cowering under glare English linguistic imperialism, is challenged by through newly fabricated that acknowledge terms, but use platforms to convey what ...

Starting to attain an important international language status in the world from 19th century onwards thanks many interrelated factors like British colonialism and later US-Britain cultural policies of expansion, English has achieved unprecedented prevalence usage different sectors ranging education tourism art literature sports. Today, it keeps its reign as lingua franca, reinforcing position b...