The Quality of Monopoly Capitalist Society: Mental Health
March 1, 2020
When Paul A. Baran and Paul M. Sweezy’s Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order was published by Monthly Review Press in 1966, two of the… READ MORE
Article Author: Paul A. Baran
No Vacation from Politics
January 1, 2016
Paul A. Baran (1909–1964) was an influential Marxian political economist and professor of economics at Stanford from 1951 until his death. An early and prolific contributor to MR, he was… READ MORE
Theses on Advertising
July 1, 2013
Originally published in Science & Society 28, no. 1 (Winter 1964: 20–30). � Confronted with a progressive deterioration and an increasing “Americanization” of mass media in Britain, the British Labor… READ MORE
The Quality of Monopoly Capitalist Society: Culture and Communications
July 1, 2013
This is a hitherto unpublished chapter of Paul A. Baran and Paul M. Sweezy, Monopoly Capital (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1966). The text as published here has been edited… READ MORE
Some Theoretical Implications
July 1, 2012
The text as published has been edited and includes notes by John Bellamy Foster. � 1 � It may be appropriate at this stage to pause, and, even at the… READ MORE
Last Letters: Correspondence on “Some Theoretical Implications”
July 1, 2012
These “Last Letters” were written by Baran and Sweezy in late February and early March 1964 and concerned “Some Theoretical Implications,” a chapter that Baran had drafted in 1962 and… READ MORE
Two Letters on Monopoly Capital Theory
December 1, 2010
� Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy’s voluminous correspondence in the 1950s and early 1960s ranks as one of the crucial exchanges of letters between Marxist political economists in the second… READ MORE
The Dialectic of Social Science
May 1, 2010
We are reprinting this short piece by Paul Baran on the importance of the Marxian method to the development of a rational social science in honor of the Baran-Sweezy centennial…. READ MORE
The Commitment of the Intellectual
May 1, 1961
Professor of Economics at Stanford University, and a frequent contributor to these pages, Paul Baran is the author of MR Press book, The Political Economy of Growth, and the recent… READ MORE