Dillon Wamsley recently completed his PhD at York University in the Department of Politics, focusing on the politics of public finance, crisis management, and the relationship between capitalism and democracy.

April 11, 2024

Analysis

The Electric Vehicle Developmental State

BYD exemplifies transformations in Chinese industrial policy

The rise of the Chinese EV industry has been enabled not only by generous government subsidies but also by profound changes in strategy and organization, and in particular by a distinctive revival of vertical integration—at both individual firm and national…

January 4, 2024

Reviews

The Logic of Austerity

On Clara Mattei’s “The Capital Order”

In the aftermath of 2008, the pace at which capitalist states moved from bailouts and stimulus policies to fiscal belt tightening was jarring. No less striking was the shift in the intellectual framework deployed to make sense of it. While …