George Pasdirtz
@pasdirtz.bsky.social
My time has expired. I am retired from the University of Wisconsin—Madison. I will continue to post about the World-System and play jazz guitar.
Invasion of Venezuela georgepasdirtz.blogspot.com/2025/10/blog...
Blog Roll: Venezuela
Venezuela is currently in the News because the US appears to be planning an invasion of the country. Wikipedia notes ( here ) that " With t...
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December 6, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Is Britain Heading for Another Debt Crisis? macropolicyspace.blogspot.com/2025/11/does...
Is Britain Heading for Another Debt Crisis?
The NY Times reported yesterday that Britain Raises Taxes by More Than $30 Billion in Push for ‘Stable Economy’ . What is meant by "Stabil...
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November 29, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Is Britain Heading for Another Debt Crisis? macropolicyspace.blogspot.com/2025/11/does...
BLACK FRIDAY SALE: Larry Summers Bobbleheads, Harvard Book Store
November 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
BLACK FRIDAY SALE: Larry Summers Bobbleheads, Harvard Book Store
BLACK FRIDAY SALE: Mar-a-Lardo Bobble Heads
November 28, 2025 at 1:42 AM
BLACK FRIDAY SALE: Mar-a-Lardo Bobble Heads
World System CO2 Emissions are NOT Declining factsfictionsforecasts.blogspot.com/2025/11/worl...
World-System (1960-2100) CO2 Emission Forecast
November 12, 2025. The New York Times is reporting that Carbon Dioxide Emissions Head for Another Record in 2025 . The time plot above (...
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November 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
World System CO2 Emissions are NOT Declining factsfictionsforecasts.blogspot.com/2025/11/worl...
Switzerland pulls back from the Edge of Chaos systemiccycleschaos.blogspot.com/2025/10/worl...
World-System (1950-2025) Edge of Chaos in Swirtzerland.
Nov 14, 2025 The New York Times reports ( here ) that "The United States and Switzerland said on Friday that they had reached an agreement...
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November 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Switzerland pulls back from the Edge of Chaos systemiccycleschaos.blogspot.com/2025/10/worl...
World Population Collapse factsfictionsforecasts.blogspot.com/2025/11/worl...
World-System (1970-2100) World Population Collapse
October 27, 2025. NPR ran a segment on how Populations are Shrinking and Altering the Global Economy . It is somewhat surprising that Po...
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November 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
World Population Collapse factsfictionsforecasts.blogspot.com/2025/11/worl...
French Technology Cycles worldsystemtech.blogspot.com/2025/10/worl...
World-System (1950-2150) Stable French Technology Cycles
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics ( here ) was awarded for having explained the role of innovation and Creative Destruction in Sustain...
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November 3, 2025 at 1:08 AM
French Technology Cycles worldsystemtech.blogspot.com/2025/10/worl...
Will Technology Save Us? worldsystemtech.blogspot.com/2025/10/worl...
World-System (1960-2100) WL20 Technology Growth Paths
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded for both advances in our theoretical and historical understanding of Technological Change . ...
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October 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Will Technology Save Us? worldsystemtech.blogspot.com/2025/10/worl...
French Instability factsfictionsforecasts.blogspot.com/2025/10/worl...
World-System (1980-2100) Will Political Instability Hurt the French Economy?
Recently, the NY Times reported ( here ) that "... after three government upheavals in France since last summer, the damage to the French ...
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October 18, 2025 at 11:42 PM
French Instability factsfictionsforecasts.blogspot.com/2025/10/worl...
Political Instability in France georgepasdirtz.blogspot.com/2025/10/blog...
Blog Roll: France
The French government has collapsed again " less than 24 hours after its formation " ( here ). It seems like a good time to look back at ...
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October 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Political Instability in France georgepasdirtz.blogspot.com/2025/10/blog...
Will Shock Therapy work in Argentina? macropolicyspace.blogspot.com/2025/10/worl...
World-System (1960-2010) Controlling the Argentine Economy
Economists* should probably admit that they don't know how to control Complex Systems such as the Economy of Argentina . When an economis...
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October 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Will Shock Therapy work in Argentina? macropolicyspace.blogspot.com/2025/10/worl...
Trump Extorts US Team to Ryder Cup Victory www.espn.com/golf/story/_...
October 1, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Trump Extorts US Team to Ryder Cup Victory www.espn.com/golf/story/_...
DJT inserts his Manifest Destiny in the Caribbean amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
September 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
DJT inserts his Manifest Destiny in the Caribbean amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
Argentine Bailout macropolicyspace.blogspot.com/2025/09/worl...
World-System (1960-2100) A Stable Geopolitical Alignment for Argentina?
Argentina just entered what Paul Krugman has called ( here ) a Classical Monetary-Financial Crisis . The Peso is collapsing, the Central B...
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September 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Argentine Bailout macropolicyspace.blogspot.com/2025/09/worl...
Technology in the UK factsfictionsforecasts.blogspot.com/2025/09/worl...
World-System (1960-2100) Technological Change in the United Kingdom
On September 18, 2025 Donald Trump and Keir Starmer signed a Technological Prosperity Deal between the US and the UK covering joint te...
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September 21, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Technology in the UK factsfictionsforecasts.blogspot.com/2025/09/worl...
French Austerity factsfictionsforecasts.blogspot.com/2025/09/worl...
World-System (1975-2150) Breaking Cycles of Austerity in France
The background graphic above was from a protest in Aug 2012 (you can see the small peak in AUST1-- see the Operational Definitions in t...
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September 15, 2025 at 12:11 AM
French Austerity factsfictionsforecasts.blogspot.com/2025/09/worl...
The New Axis of Evil factsfictionsforecasts.blogspot.com/2025/09/worl...
World-System (1960-2100) A New "Axis of Evil"?
On September 1, 2025, in the Chinese port city of Tianjin, Chinese President Xi Jinping held a summit in response to the Trump II Adminis...
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September 9, 2025 at 12:49 AM
The New Axis of Evil factsfictionsforecasts.blogspot.com/2025/09/worl...
Can we Balance the World System? worldsystemconjectures.blogspot.com/2025/08/worl...
World-System (1950-2100) How to Balance the World System
In an earlier post ( here ), I found that the US-MX-CA World Trading System could reach a Steady State in a number of ways. Creating a S...
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September 2, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Can we Balance the World System? worldsystemconjectures.blogspot.com/2025/08/worl...
Sinnerman youtu.be/QH3Fx41Jpl4?...
Nina Simone - Sinnerman
YouTube video by chacho mg
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August 30, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Sinnerman youtu.be/QH3Fx41Jpl4?...
Trump Tinkering with World Trade System he does not Understand factsfictionsforecasts.blogspot.com/2025/08/worl...
World-System (1960-2100) Geopolitical Linkages: Canada, Mexico and the US
A recent article in the New York Times ( here ) suggests that Trump II Administration bullying ( Trade Threats to both Canada and Mex...
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August 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Trump Tinkering with World Trade System he does not Understand factsfictionsforecasts.blogspot.com/2025/08/worl...
Reuben’s Blues youtu.be/xN7hdbXm3Ks?...
Reuben's Blues
YouTube video by Susie Arioli - Topic
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August 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Reuben’s Blues youtu.be/xN7hdbXm3Ks?...
He’s a Tramp youtu.be/VSP_tVRWNA8?...
He's A Tramp
YouTube video by Dianne Reeves - Topic
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August 19, 2025 at 12:57 AM
He’s a Tramp youtu.be/VSP_tVRWNA8?...
Switzerland, the US and Tariffs latemodernperiod1950-2000.blogspot.com/2025/08/worl...
World-System (1950-2025) Switzerland, the US and Trump Tariffs
Switzerland's ( CH ) Splendid Geopolitical Isolation was shattered last week as the Trump II Administration imposed 39% Tariffs on most Sw...
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August 15, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Switzerland, the US and Tariffs latemodernperiod1950-2000.blogspot.com/2025/08/worl...