Notes from the Editors, May 2008
May 1, 2008
The subprime mortgage crisis that emerged late last summer in the United States led to a massive seizure in the world financial system that has had capital staggering ever since…. READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Political Economy
United States of Insecurity: Interview with Noam Chomsky
May 1, 2008
Noam Chomsky is an Institute Professor of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His most recent books are Interventions (City Lights, 2007), Failed States (Metropolitan Books, 2007), and Inside… READ MORE
The Subprime Debacle
May 1, 2008
Karl Beitel is currently conducting research for Service Employees International Union, Local 1021. He may be contacted at kbeitel [at] earthlink.net. The views expressed in this article are those of… READ MORE
Sweezy in Perspective
May 1, 2008
This is the foreword to a collection of Paul Sweezy”s essays translated into Bengla, Paul M. Sweezy, Bishshaayan Natoon Keechhu Noy; Nirbaacheeto Prabandha (Globalization is Nothing New; Selected Essays), edited… READ MORE
Disaster Capitalism: An Offer You Can’t RefuseÑOr Can You?
May 1, 2008
Michael Gould-Wartofsky is a young writer and activist from New York City. He has been a part of student, labor, and international solidarity movements for much of his life. He… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, April 2008
April 1, 2008
United States and the world economy are now experiencing a major economic setback that began in the financial sector with the bursting of the housing bubble, but which can ultimately… READ MORE
The Financialization of Capital and the Crisis
April 1, 2008
With the benefit of hindsight, few now doubt that the housing bubble that induced most of the recent growth of the U.S. economy was bound to burst or that a… READ MORE
An Age of Transition: The United States, China, Peak Oil, and the Demise of Neoliberalism
April 1, 2008
Minqi Li teaches economics at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Until recently, the global capitalist economy has enjoyed a period of comparative tranquility and grown at a… READ MORE
Finance, Imperialism, and the Hegemony of the Dollar
April 1, 2008
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. The July–August 2007 crisis in… READ MORE
Market Economy or Oligopoly-Finance Capitalism?
April 1, 2008
Samir Amin is director of the Third World Forum in Dakar, Senegal. His recent books include The Liberal Virus: Permanent War and the Americanization of the World (2004) and The… READ MORE