An outstanding left-wing politician of Europe, whose political career showed the opposite tendency to that of many others. Having assumed ministership, he radicalised instead of becoming opportunistic, and turned towards the working class instead of locking himself into the corridirs of power.

Tony Benn submitted a bill to the House of Commons about a future Commonwealth of Europe, which would be significantly more democratic and human than the European Union designed by the Maastricht Treaty.

Conventional explanations of the sources of South Korean development by the World Bank and others are deeply flawed. Korea's export-led growth is not a result of free markets and free trade. Rather, both government intervention and discrimination against women have played roles. South Korea's experience leaves in question whether export-oriented growth can contribute to gender equality.

Among many reports about the infamous camps of the Stalinist Soviet Union there have been very few attempts to define the economic role of these institutions. Our analysis provides some new information about the camps and analyses their historic antecedents as well as economicv policy linkages.