By Güney Işıkara and Patrick Mokre The recent paper by Gastón Nievas and Thomas Piketty, “Unequal Exchange and North-South Relations” has gained substantial praise as well as criticism in a short period of time. Their empirical endeavor is impressive: the authors compiled and published a large dataset of balance of payments, including traded goods, services, direct … Continue reading COOPT, EMPTY, EVISCERATE: Nievas and Piketty on Unequal Exchange