Peter Gowan

I had never really heard of Peter Gowan before this year.

He wrote an amazing piece for the New Left Review about the financial crisis, and sometime after we had him as a guest on This is Hell (he's on at the very end of the show if you are interested).

Before he died this summer, he sat down with a couple colleagues to discuss his life and career. Read it here.

“Capitalism involves an endless struggle for value streams, and the social preconditions for the right kinds of value streams to come out of different areas—and capitalist states get very agitated if other states create spheres of influence which cut them out of the value stream. So there are tremendous efforts to restructure the internal regimes of states, along with, of course, efforts to restructure the external regimes.”