WORLD REVIEW OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
Journal of the World Association for Political Economy
Volume 15 • Number 1 • Spring 2024
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WORLD REVIEW OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
Journal of the World Association for Political Economy
EDITOR
Enfu Cheng (China), Professor and Member of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
CO-EDITORS
David M. Kotz (US), Professor at University of Massachusetts Amherst Hiroshi Onishi (Japan), Professor at Keio University Jean-Claude Delaunay (France), Honorary Professor at Universities of Lille 1 and Paris East-Marne la Vallée
MANAGING EDITORS
Zhongbao Wang (China), Professor at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
EDITORIAL BOARD
Josef Baum (Austria), Researcher at University of Vienna
Riccardo Bellofiore (Italy), Professor at University of Bergamo
Enfu Cheng (China), Professor and Member of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Jean-Claude Delaunay (France), Honorary Professor at Universities of Lille 1 and Paris East-Marne la Vallée
Radhika Desai (Canada), Professor at University of Manitoba
Heinz Dieterich (Germany), Professor at Metropolitan Autonomous University
Xiaoqin Ding (China), Professor at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
John Bellamy Foster (US), Professor at University of Oregon, Editor of Monthly Review
Hailiang Gu (China), Professor at Peking University
Hazel Dayton Gunn (US), Visiting Scholar at Cornell University, Managing Editor of Review of Radical Political Economics
Henri Houben (Belgium), Researcher at Research Group for an Alternative Economic Strategy and Institute for Marxist Studies
Leming Hu (China), Professor at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Makoto Itoh (Japan), Emeritus Professor at University of Tokyo, Member of the Japan Academy
David M. Kotz (US), Professor at University of Massachusetts Amherst
David Laibman (US), Professor Emeritus at City University of New York, Editor Emeritus of Science & Society
Jianping Li (China), Professor at Fujian Normal University
Jianhua Lin (China), Professor at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Terrence McDonough (Ireland), Professor at National University of Ireland Galway
Hiroshi Onishi (Japan), Professor at Keio University
Ozgur Orhangazi (Turkey), Professor of Economics at Kadir Has University
Luis Sandoval Ramírez (Mexico), Professor at National Autonomous University of Mexico
Roger Seifert (UK), Professor at Wolverhampton University
Pritam Singh (India), Professor at Oxford Brookes University
Lefteris Tsoulfidis (Greece), Professor at University of Macedonia
Pengfei Yan (China), Professor at Wuhan University
Yunxia Yang (China), Professor at Northwestern Polytechnical University
World Review of Political Economy
Vol. 15, No. 1, Spring 2024
CONTENTS
Articles
Multilevel Democratic Iterative Coordination (MDIC): A Path for Socialism beyond the Market/Central Planning Dilemma 4
David Laibman
The Innovative Development of Digital Public Capital under the Conditions of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics 22
Xiuli Zhao, Xiaojie Gao, and Yang Yang
Global Production Networks and Dynamic Cores in the World’s Main Nodes: The Technological-Productive Transition of the Automotive Industry 46
Sergio Ordóñez
Western Domination, Destructive Governance, and the Perpetual Development Crisis in the Arab Region 82
Omar Osman
Shifting Sands and the Unreason of State: Review of Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt US Energy Policy by Robert Vitalis 123
Michael Keaney
Information
WAPE Membership Information 156
Guidelines for Contributors 158