Articles by M. Shahid Alam
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A EUROCENTRIC PROBLEM
M. Shahid Alam – Dissident Voice,
11 Feb 2010
He who knows himself and othersHere will also see,That the East and West, like brothers,Parted ne’er shall be.— Goethe1 In no other major civilization do self-regard, self-congratulation and denigration of the ‘Other’ run as deep, nor have these tendencies infected as many aspects of their thinking, laws, and policy, as they have in Western Europe […]
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M. Shahid Alam - Pulse Media,
26 Nov 2009
At the outset of the classes I teach, I always address the question of bias in the social sciences. In one course – on the history of the global economy – this is the central theme. It critiques Eurocentric biases in several leading Western accounts of the rise of the global economy. This fall, I […]
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M. Shahid Alam,
24 Mar 2009
It has never been easy offering a critique of capitalism or markets to my undergraduate students. Most have never heard an unkind word about these bedrock institutions, which they know to be the foundations of American power and prosperity. These are hallowed institutions. The power of private capital to produce jobs, wealth and freedom is […]
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