Reading ‘Capital’, Reading Historical Capitalisms
July 1, 2016
Samir Amin is director of the Third World Forum in Dakar, Senegal. His most recent book is The Reawakening of the Arab World (Monthly Review Press, 2016). This article was… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Economic Theory
Orthodox Economics and the Science of Climate Change
May 1, 2016
Mariano Torras is a professor of economics at Adelphi University and the author of Welfare, Inequality, and Resource Depletion (Ashgate, 2003). We have finally reached the point where most people… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, April 2016
April 1, 2016
The March/April 2016 issue of Foreign Affairs, published by the Council on Foreign Relations, is devoted in large part to the topic of economic stagnation. The editorial by Jonathan Tepperman,… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, January 2016
January 1, 2016
Prabhat Patnaik’s Review of the Month in this issue addresses problems of economic stagnation and imperialism in the context of explaining the current global crisis. Patnaik is part of a… READ MORE
Baran and Sweezy’s ‘Monopoly Capital’, Then and Now
November 1, 2015
Benjamin Feldman is a graduate student in history at Georgetown University researching Baran and Sweezy’s Monopoly Capital as part of a larger project engaging with the politics of economic thought… READ MORE
Secular Stagnation: Mainstream Versus Marxian Traditions
September 1, 2015
Hans G. Despain teaches political economy at Nichols College, where he is the chair of the Department of Economics. Paul M. Sweezy wrote in 1982, “it is my impression that… READ MORE
The Strength and Fragility of the Brazilian Economy
May 1, 2015
Rosa Maria Marques teaches political economy at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. Paulo Nakatani teaches economics and social policy at the Federal University of Espírito Santo. Analyzing the… READ MORE
Neoliberal Co-optation of Leading Co-op Organizations, and a Socialist Counter-Politics of Cooperation
February 1, 2015
Carl Ratner is an academic cultural psychologist who studies the psychological affects of culture, especially macro, political culture. He was vice president of Northcoast Co-op Inc., the largest food co-op in… READ MORE
Cooperatives On the Path to Socialism?
February 1, 2015
Peter Marcuse, a planner and lawyer, is professor emeritus of urban planning at Columbia University in New York City. His latest book, with Neil Brenner and Margit Mayer, is Cities… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, November 2014
November 1, 2014
On September 20, 2014, while corporate and government officials arrived in New York City for the UN Climate Summit, organizers and activists from around the world participated in a peoples’… READ MORE