Article Subjects and Geography: Political Economy
Free Trade in Agriculture: A Bad Idea Whose Time Is Done
July 1, 2009
Sophia Murphy is a public policy analyst and a senior advisor on trade and global governance issues at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy focusing on agricultural trade rules,… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, June 2009
June 1, 2009
The grim state of the U.S. economy in early 2009 was brought into sharp relief by economic data released at the end of April. Industrial production in the first quarter… READ MORE
The Penal State in an Age of Crisis
June 1, 2009
Hannah Holleman is a graduate student in sociology at the University of Oregon and a frequent contributor to Monthly Review. Robert W. McChesney is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the… READ MORE
Don’t Pity the Poor Immigrants, Fight Alongside Them
June 1, 2009
David Bacon, Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants (Boston: Beacon Press, 2008), 261 pages, $25.95, hardcover. Michael D. Yates is associate editor of Monthly Review. His many… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, May 2009
May 1, 2009
» Notes from the Editors � This issue of Monthly Review marks the sixtieth anniversary of the magazine. We are reprinting here Albert Einstein’s classic article “Why Socialism?,” written for volume… READ MORE
Capitalism in Wonderland
May 1, 2009
Richard York is coeditor of Organization & Environment and associate professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. Brett Clark is assistant professor of sociology at North Carolina State University…. READ MORE
The Sales Effort and Monopoly Capital
April 1, 2009
Robert W. McChesney is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His most recent book is The Political Economy of Media:… READ MORE
The Credit Crisis: Is the International Role of the Dollar at Stake?
April 1, 2009
Ramaa Vasudevan teaches economics at Colorado State University. She is a member of the Union for Radical Political Economics and the Dollars and Sense collective. As the first tremors of… READ MORE
The Neoliberal Restructuring of Turkey’s Social Security System
April 1, 2009
Simten Cosar teaches in the department of political science and international relations at Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey. Metin Yegenoglu is a graduate student in sociology at Middle East Technical University,… READ MORE