December 1, 2024
Mark Allison reviews Brian Merchant’s timely Blood in the Machine (Little, Brown, and Co., 2023), finding in it a compelling historical account of the original Luddite movement with important parallels to our own age of Big Tech. However, Allison asks, are the lessons drawn from Blood in the Machine even possible within the confines of capitalism?
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?
December 1, 2020
Thomas E. Lambert is an applied economist with the College of Business at the University of Louisville, where he has mostly taught economics and business statistics. His work has appeared… READ MORE
November 1, 2019
Ian Angus edits the website Climate and Capitalism and is the author, most recently, of A Redder Shade of Green: Intersections of Science and Socialism (Monthly Review Press, 2017). An… READ MORE
July 1, 2018
John Bellamy Foster is the editor of MR and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. Brett Clark is the associate editor of MR and an associate professor… READ MORE
July 1, 2018
Ian Angus edits the website Climate and Capitalism and is the author, most recently, of A Redder Shade of Green: Intersections of Science and Socialism (Monthly Review Press, 2017). A… READ MORE
May 1, 2017
Paul Burkett is a professor of economics at Indiana State University, Terre Haute, and coauthor, with John Bellamy Foster, of Marx and the Earth (Haymarket, 2017). In the summer of… READ MORE
March 1, 2017
David Matthews is a lecturer in sociology and social policy at Coleg Llandrillo in North Wales, and the leader of its degree program in health and social care. Society becomes… READ MORE
March 1, 2017
Ian Angus is the editor of Climate and Capitalism and the author of A Redder Shade of Green: Intersections of Science and Socialism, forthcoming from Monthly Review Press. One basis… READ MORE
February 1, 2016
Kohei Saito recently received a PhD in philosophy from Humboldt University, Berlin. In 2015 he was a guest researcher at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, where he helped edit Marx’s… READ MORE
