I recently caught up with a podcast from NPR’s This American Life show. This one, entitled ‘Continental Break-up’, is based on the seemingly never-ending economic crisis of the eurozone. And oh what a tangled web is weaved, from French dreams of union, via German fear of hyperinflation and a secretive bond trading firm in Southern California, to…
Category: Economics
The mercantilistic history of Athletic Bilbao
In the next post in this series attempting to explain International Relations (IR) theory through football I will be looking at the similarities between the international political economy theory of economic nationalism, also known as mercantilism, and the history of Athletic Bilbao. Mercantilism was how the emerging nation-states of fifteenth century managed their trade and inter-state relations,…
In Sun and Shadow 