The New Economy: Myth and Reality
April 1, 2001
In the last few years the idea of a “New Economy” has gained wide currency, almost rivaling “globalization” as a neologism that characterizes our era. Thus The Economic Report of… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Political Economy
New EconomyÉSame Irrational Economy
April 1, 2001
William K. Tabb is a frequent contributor to Monthly Review. He teaches economics at Queens College and political science at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York.This… READ MORE
The “New” Economy and the Labor Movement
April 1, 2001
Michael D. Yates has been closely associated with Monthly Review for many years and is the author of Why Unions Matter (Monthly Review Press, 1998). A New Economy? Today, we… READ MORE
The “New Economy” and the Speculative Bubble: An Interview with Doug Henwood
April 1, 2001
Doug Henwood, author of Wall Street: How It Works and for Whom (Verso, 1997) and publisher and primary author of the newsletter Left Business Observer, is a frequent contributor to… READ MORE
Neoliberalism from Reagan to Clinton
April 1, 2001
GREGORY ALBO teaches political science at York University in Toronto, Ontario, and is a frequent contributor to Monthly Review. � Michael Meeropol, Surrender: How the Clinton Administration Completed the Reagan… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, March 2001
March 1, 2001
Two decades after the Carter and Reagan administrations launched their attacks on the U.S. regulatory system the world is littered with the wreckage of neoliberal deregulation. Seldom have these failures… READ MORE
Capitalism and Crisis: Creating a Jailhouse Nation
March 1, 2001
Christian Parenti, Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in The Age of Crisis (Verso,1999), 320 pages, $25 hardcover, $15 paper. � David Gilbert is a long-time anti-imperialist activist. He is serving… READ MORE
The Myth of the Middle-Class Society
March 1, 2001
Michael Zweig, The Working Class Majority: America’s Best Kept Secret (Cornell University Press, 2000), 192 pages, $25 cloth, $14.95 paper. � Paul Buhle writes frequently forMonthly Review. His biography of… READ MORE
Refuting the Big Lie
March 1, 2001
Hugh Stretton, Economics: A New Introduction (Pluto Press, 1999), 864 pages, $90 hardcover, 35 paper. � Doug Dowd lives in San Francisco and Bologna. His most recent book is Capitalism… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, February 2001
February 1, 2001
The attention given to the Florida elections in the US presidential race has highlighted the horrendous fact that in Florida and throughout the South thirty-five years after the passage of… READ MORE