Notes from the Editors, April 2013
April 1, 2013
One of the achievements of Roosevelt’s New Deal administration during the Great Depression was the introduction in 1938 of the federal minimum wage, then set at twenty-five cents an hour…. READ MORE
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Notes from the Editors, March 2013
March 1, 2013
The history of capitalism is replete with cases of successful captains of industry who, suddenly concerned with their place in history, decide to write a book celebrating their achievements, while… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, February 2013
February 1, 2013
For a long time now orthodox economics has been hindered by its extreme irrealism—a refusal even to attempt a realistic theoretical understanding of how modern capitalism functions. The shift to… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, November 2012
November 1, 2012
In “Education and the Structural Crisis of Capital,” written for the special July-August 2011 issue of Monthly Review on education, John Bellamy Foster stated: In the past few decades the… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, October 2012
October 1, 2012
In universities today research, promotion, and tenure are increasingly based on publication in peer-reviewed academic journals. These journals are supposed to constitute the highest level of intellectual inquiry in the… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, September 2012
September 1, 2012
Last May President Obama signed a proclamation establishing the “Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War,” meant to last for thirteen years, from Memorial Day 2012 to Veterans… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, July-August 2012
July 1, 2012
As the economies of Europe, North America, and Japan continue to stagnate orthodox economics has revealed itself to be bankrupt, unable to explain what is happening much less what to… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, June 2012
June 1, 2012
� If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You… READ MORE