Notes from the Editors, April 2007
April 1, 2007
The U.S. economy in early March 2007 appears to be rapidly decelerating. Orders for durable goods in manufacturing dropped 8 percent in January and the manufacturing sector as a whole… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Economic Theory
The Financialization of Capitalism
April 1, 2007
This article was prepared for a panel organized by the Union for Radical Political Economics at the Left Forum in New York, March 11, 2007. Changes in capitalism over the… READ MORE
The Only Viable Economy
April 1, 2007
István Mészáros is author of Socialism or Barbarism: From the “American Century” to the Crossroads (Monthly Review Press, 2001) and Beyond Capital: Toward a Theory of Transition (Monthly Review Press,… READ MORE
The Imperative of an International Guaranteed Income
April 1, 2007
Stephen J. Fortunato Jr. is an associate justice of the Rhode Island Superior Court. His essays and reviews have appeared in the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, the Howard Law… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, February 2007
February 12, 2007
Monthly Review Press is publishing an exceptionally strong collection of new books in 2007. However, like most small presses the modest budgets we can devote to the promotion of these… READ MORE
‘No Radical Change in the Model’
February 1, 2007
Foreword In the 2006 presidential election campaign in Brazil, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (known as Lula), leader of the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT or Workers’ Party), was interviewed… READ MORE
The State and Economy in Brazil: An Introduction
February 1, 2007
Rosa Maria Marques teaches political economy at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. Paulo Nakatani (pnakatani [at] uol.com.br) teaches economics and social policy at the Federal University of Espírito… READ MORE
Lula and Social Policy: In the Service of Financial Capital
February 1, 2007
Rosa Maria Marques teaches political economy at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. Áquilas Mendes teaches economics at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo and Fundação Armando Alvares… READ MORE
The Financial Globalization of Brazil under Lula
February 1, 2007
Daniela Magalhães Prates teaches economics at the State University of Campinas in São Paulo. Leda Maria Paulani teaches economics at the University of São Paulo and is president of the… READ MORE
The Brazilian Economy under Lula: A Balance of Contradictions
February 1, 2007
Fabrício Augusto de Oliveira (fabricioaugusto [at] hotmail.com) teaches economics at the Fundação João Pinheiro. Paulo Nakatani (pnakatani [at] uol.com.br) teaches economics and social policy at the Federal University of Espírito… READ MORE