July 1, 2001
The United States incarcerates five to eight times more of its people per capita than Western European nations—though its crime rates for nonviolent crimes are comparable to those of Western… READ MORE
June 1, 2001
SAMIR AMIN is director of the African Office (in Dakar, Senegal) of the Third World Forum, an international non-governmental association for research and debate. He is the author of numerous… READ MORE
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
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
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
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
January 1, 2001
A striking example of the one-sided nature of the US media, at least where issues of capital and imperial power are concerned, is the way recent events in the Middle… READ MORE
December 1, 2000
John Bellamy Foster is an acting editor, of Monthly Review. He is the author of Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature and The Vulnerable Planet, and co-editor of Hungry for Profit:… READ MORE
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
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