The Jobs Disaster in the United States
June 1, 2011
Fred Magdoff (fmagdoff [at] uvm.edu) is professor emeritus of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont and adjunct professor of crop and soil science at Cornell University. He… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Economic Theory
The Rise of the Working Class and the Future of the Chinese Revolution
June 1, 2011
Minqi Li (minqi.li [at] economics.utah.edu) has taught economics at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, since 2006. He was a political prisoner in China from 1990 to 1992. His… READ MORE
The Emperor Has No Clothes But Still He Rules
June 1, 2011
Moshe Adler, Economics for the Rest of Us: Debunking the Science that Makes Life Dismal (New York: The New Press, 2009), 224 pages, $24.95, hardcover David Orrell, Economyths: Ten Ways… READ MORE
On the Laws of Capitalism
May 1, 2011
1. Insights from the Sweezy-Schumpeter Debate John Bellamy Foster In February 2011, while I was drafting what was to become “Monopoly and Competition in Twenty-First Century Capitalism,” written with Robert… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, April 2011
April 1, 2011
This year marks the forty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy’s classic work, Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic Order (Monthly Review Press, 1966)…. READ MORE
Monopoly and Competition in Twenty-First Century Capitalism
April 1, 2011
John Bellamy Foster (jfoster [at] monthlyreview.org) is editor of Monthly Review and professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. Robert W. McChesney (rwmcches [at] uiuc.edu) is Gutgsell Endowed Professor… READ MORE
Cluster Munitions and State Terrorism
April 1, 2011
Beau Grosscup (BGrosscup [at] csuchico.edu) is professor emeritus of International Relations, California State University Chico. He is the author of The Explosion of Terrorism (2002) and Strategic Terror: The Politics… READ MORE
Asia and the Great Financial Crisis
April 1, 2011
Michael Lim Mah Hui and Lim Chin, Nowhere to Hide: The Great Financial Crisis and Challenges for Asia (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2010), 200 pages, $39.90, paperback. Nowhere… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, March 2011
March 1, 2011
» Notes from the Editors In the United States, it is now three years since the “Great Recession” began, and twenty-one months since it officially ended. Whether or not the end… READ MORE
Mortgaging Irish Independence: From Financial Crisis to Socialist Resistance
March 1, 2011
Julie L. MacArthur is a Ph. D. candidate in political science at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. A specter is haunting Ireland—the specter of James Connolly. Connolly was shot… READ MORE