Notes from the Editors, October 2013
October 1, 2013
A sign of the crass economic culture of our times is the recent release by Hasbro of the game “Monopoly Empire” based on the well-known “Monopoly” game, first mass produced… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Stagnation
The Epochal Crisis
October 1, 2013
Parts of the argument on epochal crisis here were presented in three overlapping keynote addresses in: (1) Esslingen, Germany on May 30, 2013 at a conference on Marxist thought organized… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, September 2013
September 1, 2013
When confronted in the 1980s with the failure of the younger generation of economists (both mainstream and radical) to take seriously the issue of the return of economic stagnation, Harry… READ MORE
The Cultural Apparatus of Monopoly Capital: An Introduction
July 1, 2013
John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. His latest book, written with Robert W. McChesney, is The Endless Crisis: How… READ MORE
Introduction to the Second Edition of The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism
July 1, 2013
The present-day world can only be described to present-day people if it is described as capable of transformation. —Bertolt Brecht1 The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism: An Elaboration of Marxian Political… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, May 2013
May 1, 2013
Millions of people throughout the world mourned the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez on March 5, 2013. Monthly Review responded at the time with numerous pieces posted on MRzine…. READ MORE
The Political Economy of Decollectivization in China
May 1, 2013
Zhun Xu (zhun [at] ruc.edu.cn) is an assistant professor at Renmin University of China in Beijing. His research interests include political economy, social development, and economic history. Decollectivization of China’s… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, April 2013
April 1, 2013
One of the achievements of Roosevelt’s New Deal administration during the Great Depression was the introduction in 1938 of the federal minimum wage, then set at twenty-five cents an hour…. READ MORE
Marx, Kalecki, and Socialist Strategy
April 1, 2013
A historical perspective on the economic stagnation afflicting the United States and the other advanced capitalist economies requires that we go back to the severe downturn of 1974–1975, which marked… READ MORE
Crisis Theory, the Law of the Tendency of the Profit Rate to Fall, and Marx’s Studies in the 1870s
April 1, 2013
Michael Heinrich teaches economics in Berlin and is the author of An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital (Monthly Review Press, 2012) and The Science of Value:… READ MORE