Michael Hudson
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↓ 33 pieces trackedClassical economist and economic historian whose work on debt, finance capitalism and the dollar system underpins much heterodox analysis of the global order. Author of 'Super Imperialism', he examines de-dollarisation, the US–China economic contest and the financial architecture of empire.
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Distinguished Research Professor of Economics, University of Missouri–Kansas City; former Wall Street balance-of-payments analyst; author of 'Super Imperialism', 'Killing the Host' and 'J is for Junk Economics'
Why Offstream tracks this voice
Brings a classical-economics and economic-history framework — grounded in decades of work on debt, balance of payments and the dollar system — to questions most geopolitical commentary treats only at the surface. His analysis supplies the economic substructure beneath the multipolar transition, with concrete historical and financial reasoning rather than political assertion.
Biography
Michael Hudson is a classical economist and economic historian, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. A former Wall Street balance-of-payments analyst, he has spent decades studying debt, finance capitalism and the economic structure of American power, drawing on a reading of several thousand years of financial history.
He is the author of numerous books, most notably Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire, alongside Killing the Host and J is for Junk Economics. His central arguments concern how debt and financialisation hollow out productive economies, and how the dollar-based system has functioned as an instrument of US dominance now under strain.
Hudson publishes written analysis on his own website and Substack, and reaches wider audiences through frequent extended interviews — recurring appearances with Glenn Diesen and on the Geopolitical Economy Hour among them — where he connects economic analysis to the broader geopolitical shift toward a multipolar order.
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