October 1, 2024
Shakespeare’s Richard III famously immortalized the eponymous king as a scoundrel and tyrant, thirsty for power and blood. Using economic data spanning centuries, Thomas Lambert questions the truth of this spurious reputation: Was Richard III indeed a murderous despot bent on absolute rule? Or a myth propagated by Tudor allies aiming to ingratiate themselves to the new dynasty?
May 1, 2021
In December 1884, such important figures in England’s budding socialist movement as William Morris, Eleanor Marx, Edward Aveling, E. Belfort Bax, and John L. Mahon, among others, broke with the… READ MORE
February 1, 2021
This month’s Review of the Month on “Colonialism Before the First World War” is from chapter 9 of political economists Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik’s pathbreaking new Monthly Review Press… READ MORE
February 1, 2021
Utsa Patnaik is professor emerita and Prabhat Patnaik is professor emeritus at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. Utsa’s books include The… READ MORE
January 1, 2021
David Matthews is a lecturer in sociology and social policy at Coleg Llandrillo, Wales, and the leader of its degree program in health and social care. Beyond the COVID pandemic,… READ MORE
May 1, 2020
Background Izaak Hecht is an independent researcher and activist in Greenfield, Massachusetts. In 1952, the West African nation of Ghana, recently having freed itself from British imperialism, set out on… READ MORE
