Subject: Political Economy

Connects the Marxist construct of capitalism to systems of communityIn this book, Michael Lebowitz deepens the arguments he made in his award-winning, Beyond Capital. Karl Marx, in Capital, focused...

Essays that explore new ways of living with technological changeEvery year since 1964, the Socialist Register has offered a fascinating survey of movements and ideasfrom the independent new left. This...

How India's COVID-19 lockdown is creating an unprecedented humanitarian disasterWith the advent of COVID-19, India’s rulers imposed the world’s most stringent lockdown on an already depressed economy,...

Winner of the first Paul A. Baran-Paul M. Sweezy Memorial Award for an original monograph concerned with the political economy of imperialism, John Smith's Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century is...

Life in the United States today is shot through with uncertainty: about our jobs, our mortgaged houses, our retirement accounts, our health, our marriages, and the future that awaits our children. For...

For more than half a century, the Socialist Register has brought together some of the sharpest thinkers from around the globe to address the pressing issues of our time. Founded by Ralph Miliband and...

In the United States and much of the world there is a palpable depression about the prospect of overcoming the downward spiral created by the tyranny of wealth and privilege and establishing a truly...

In 1966, Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy published Monopoly Capital,a monumental work of economic theory and social criticismthat sought to reveal the basic nature of the capitalism of theirtime. Their theory,...

Save Our Unions: Dispatches From A Movement in Distress bringstogether recent essays and reporting by labor journalist SteveEarly. The author illuminates the challenges facing U.S. workers,whether they’re...

In this slim, insightful volume, noted economist Samir Amin returns to the core of Marxian economic thought: Marx’s theory of value. He begins with the same question that Marx, along with the classical...

Renowned political economist Samir Amin, engaged in a unique lifelong effort both to narrate and affect the human condition on a global scale, brings his analysis up to the present—the world of 2013....

While the Civil Rights Movement is remembered for efforts to end segregation and secure the rights of African Americans, the larger economic vision that animated much of the movement is often overlooked...

The focus of this book is the emerging economic confrontation between European and U.S. capitalism at the end of the "golden age" of capitalism in the late 1960s. Ernest Mandel here paints a remarkably...

Praise for Foster and Magdoff’s The Great Financial Crisis: In this timely and thorough analysis of the current financial crisis, Foster and Magdoff explore its roots and the radical changes that...

In his Essays in the Theory of Business Cycle published in Polish in 1933, Kalecki clearly stated the principle of effective demand in mathematical form. By 1935 he outlined his theory of employment,...