Stewart A. L. James

Researcher in Economic History and Political Economy

  • The U.S. Is Dumping More than Tariffs on Mexico

    The looming Trump tariffs, to be levied this Saturday, will complete a neoliberal hat trick of unfair trade policies by the U.S. toward Mexico. Nowhere is that hypocrisy plainer than in the corn market—where cheap imports of the staple crop routinely undermine Mexican farmers and biodiversity. In December, a USMCA dispute panel ruled in favor Read more

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  • The Ruin and Renewal of Mexican Economic Nationalism

    With Mexican president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum’s recent victory all over recent press, many are remarking on the continued surge of left-wing politics below the U.S. southern border. Sheinbaum is predicted to expand on several policies implemented by her predecessor and confrère Andrés López Manuel Obrador, including those associated with a loose programme of economic nationalism. I Read more

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  • The US Stake in a BRICS+ Order

    Toward the end of last year, I contributed to a roundtable discussion on BRICS (BRICS+ since expansion) within the latest magazine issue of Hemispheres—published for the first time this past winter. I provide an overview of how the intergovernmental economic forum known as BRICS came into being after the Great Recession, in reaction to the Read more

  • Embeddedness in Liberalizing Egypt: A Conversation with Amr Adly

    Last winter, I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Amr Adly—an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the American University in Cairo—about his book Cleft Capitalism, Egypt’s liberalization reforms (infitāḥ) since the 1970s, and sociological analysis in economics. This interview was published in vol. 46 of Hemispheres, an undergraduate journal at Tufts Read more

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  • The Buried

    ῥιζοῦσθαι a snag avows in winter, bare neath the limelight, withdraws and germinates into that vast Plutonian clay: weaving, folding, waiting.As blind machines sink into the bowels of convictions— feasting to excrete, wresting the breath that sprouts and rotting gardens to come— see the buried, digesting earth into humus for the next age: they who know Read more