The Center Will Not Hold: The Rise and Decline of Liberalism
January 1, 2012
Samir Amin is director of the Third World Forum in Dakar, Senegal. His books include The Liberal Virus, The World We Wish to See, and most recently The Law of… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Political Economy
Notes from the Editors, December 2011
December 1, 2011
buy this issue The last month (late September to late October 2011) was to all appearances a historical turning point. The Arab Spring gave way to the New York/World Fall… READ MORE
Capitalism and the Accumulation of Catastrophe
December 1, 2011
Over the next few decades we are facing the possibility, indeed the probability, of global catastrophe on a level unprecedented in human history. The message of science is clear. As… READ MORE
Contradictions of Finance Capitalism
December 1, 2011
Richard Peet (rpeet [at] clarku.edu) is Professor of Geography at Clark University, Worcester, Mass. His most recent books are Unholy Trinity: the IMF, World Bank and WTO and Geography of… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, November 2011
November 1, 2011
buy this issue It is a sign of the seriousness of the current economic malaise that more and more establishment commentators today are turning to Marx for answers. Thus a… READ MORE
The Global Reserve Army of Labor and the New Imperialism
November 1, 2011
John Bellamy Foster ([email protected]) is editor of Monthly Review and professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. Robert W. McChesney ([email protected]) is Gutgsell Endowed Professor of Communications at the… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, October 2011
October 1, 2011
buy this issue Two years after the recovery phase of the business cycle began, officially ending the Great Recession in the United States in June 2009, the capitalist economy continues… READ MORE
Samir Amin at 80: An Introduction and Tribute
October 1, 2011
Samir Amin was born in Cairo in 1931, and studied within the French educational system in Egypt (Lycée Français du Caire). He pursued his higher education in Paris at Institut… READ MORE
Black/White Radical Alliances in the 1960s
October 1, 2011
Jane Duran (jduran [at] education.ucsb.edu) teaches in the Department of Black Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She is the author of Worlds of Knowing: Global Feminist… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, September 2011
September 1, 2011
buy this issue We would like to take this opportunity to celebrate our good friend Samir Amin on the occasion of his eightieth birthday. Samir was born in Cairo in… READ MORE