The Levittown Legacy
November 1, 2000
Ellen Leopold was an economic policy advisor at the Greater London Council until it was abolished by Margaret Thatcher in 1986. � Rosalyn Baxandall and Elizabeth Ewen, Picture Windows: How… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Political Economy
Notes from the Editors, October 2000
October 1, 2000
In an article on the role of third parties in U.S. presidential elections in the August 21, 2000, issue of In These Times, founding editor and publisher James Weinstein observed:… READ MORE
Social Security, the Stock Market, and the Elections
October 1, 2000
Social Security was the crowning achievement of Roosevelt’s New Deal. It has been the most successful and still remains the most popular of all U.S. government programs. More than a… READ MORE
Is Capitalism A Disease? The Crisis of US Public Health
September 1, 2000
Readers will note that this article is nearly twice the length of the normal MR piece, but because of the importance of the subject we are publishing it in its… READ MORE
The Political Economy of the Twentieth Century
June 1, 2000
Samir Amin is director of Forum du Tiers Monde in Dakar, Senegal and the author of numerous books including Spectres of Capitalism (1998), Re-Reading the Postwar Period (1994), Empire of… READ MORE
A Question of Place
June 1, 2000
Grace lee Boggs has been a contributor to Monthly Review for over thirty years. With her late husband James Lee Boggs, she co-authored Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth Century… READ MORE
Working-Class Households and the Burden of Debt
May 1, 2000
It is an old axiom, common to both Marxian and Keynesian economics, that uneven, class-based distribution of income is a determining factor of consumption and investment. How much is spent… READ MORE
More Form than Substance: Press Coverage of the WTO Protests in Seattle
May 1, 2000
William S. Solomon teaches journalism and media studies at Rutgers University. He wishes to thank Richard Smith for his insightful critique of an earlier version of this essay. � The… READ MORE
Rejoinder to Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin; Panitch and Gindin Reply
May 1, 2000
James K. Galbraith is a professor in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and director of the University of Texas Inequality… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, April 2000
April 1, 2000
This space has, from its earliest years, been devoted to MR affairs, viewing the readers as part of a larger family. Recently, we began to use the space for commentary… READ MORE