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: Stagnation
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
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
The War for Control of the Periphery
February 1, 2008
Steven Hiatt, ed., with introduction by John Perkins, A Game as Old as Empire: The Secret World of Economic Hit Men and the Web of Global Corruption (San Francisco: BK… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, September 2007
September 1, 2007
We have been arguing in these pages for more than three decades that the dominant economic reality of advanced capitalism is a tendency toward stagnation of production accompanied by financial… READ MORE
Mexico after the Elections: The Crisis of Legitimacy and the Exhaustion of Predatory Neoliberalism
July 1, 2007
Alejandro Álvarez Béjar is a socioeconomist and permanent lecturer at the Faculty of Economics, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He is a member of the ‘68 Pro Democratic Freedoms… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, June 2007
June 1, 2007
In January 2007 the Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre of the UK Ministry of Defence published a ninety-page report, entitled Global Strategic Trends, 2007–2036, highlighting a wide array of potential… READ MORE
Imminent Crises: Threats and Opportunities
June 1, 2007
Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor and Professor of Linguistics Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This article is based on a talk delivered May 12, 2006, in Beirut, two… READ MORE
Wage Stagnation, Growing Insecurity, and the Future of the U.S. Working Class
June 1, 2007
William K. Tabb taught economics at Queens College for many years, and economics, political science, and sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His books… READ MORE
From Military Keynesianism to Global-Neoliberal Militarism
June 1, 2007
James M. Cypher is a professor-researcher in the doctoral program in development studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, in Mexico. He is coauthor, with James L. Dietz, of The… READ MORE