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From D Pathirana and C Aluthge’s A History of Underdevelopment & the Political Economy of Inflation in SL: Chapter 3…

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As he lies dying on a winter street, his brain split open by being thrown out of a hospital window,…

‘The slave traders were among the leading humanitarians of their age.’

“Loyal activist of UK Conservative Party, International Political Lobbyist and Strategist, actively interested in Human Rights, Women Rights and Child…

It was the white man’s oil companies and their off-white marionettes (merchants, moneylenders, landlords) who’ve frustrated industrial renaissance in Sri…

There is an offensive known as ‘The Agenda’ – to replace the call for more representative rule (by cultivators, workers)…

When Rome’s Borgia Pope divided the world in 1494, he sent Portugal this way (east) and Spain the other way.

Wimalasurendra strove hard to ensure we had an independent source of energy to drive industrialization, but was defeated by English…

If I asked you what is the most corrupt place on Earth...it’s not the bureaucracy, it’s not the police, it’s…

“If you want to become another Tarzan, a white man coming among black men, leading them and protecting them… it…

How have other countries dealt with this issue of large numbers of workers having no work during certain periods of…

' At the end of it all, most business-school graduates won’t become high-level managers anyway, just precarious cubicle drones in…

Now some whites and even some Lankans think they can sing the blues, or play jazz or holler rock’n’roll. Not…

Selections from this week's e-Con e-News, interestingly titled 'Benito Cereno & Sri Lanka.'

Corruption is a favorite theme for liberals and the capitalist media who go on and on about it, but not…

It is the state that has to make a massive intervention in the bargaining process or assume increasing ownership of…

Ananda Meegama, in this biography notes Philip’s ambitious program to revitalize the village economy, the need for accurate and detailed…

While there’s a lot of talk of setting up industries and announcing new inventions, the issue is: are profits invested…

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