Sunday May 19th, 2013

Economics

Transforming the Revolution

Transforming the Revolution

Social Movements and the World-System

In this successor volume to the widely read Dynamics of Global Crisis, the authors engage in a provocative discussion of the history and contemporary dilemmas facing the movements that are variously described as antisystemic, social, or popular. The authors believe that these movements, which have for the past 150 years protested and organized against the multiple injustices of the existing system, are the key locus of social transformation. … | more |

The Poor and the Powerless

The Poor and the Powerless

Economic Policy and Change in the Caribbean

Argues than another form of development—by the poor and for the poor—is not only possible but necessary.… | more |

Economic History as it Happened (Vol V): The Irreversible Crisis

Economic History as it Happened (Vol V): The Irreversible Crisis

The economies of the capitalist world-individually and as part of a closely knit global system-have been in an ongoing state of crisis since the early 1970s when the long post World War II boom finally came to an end. This crisis has gone through several phases but has not at any time shown signs of giving way to a renewed long wave of prosperity.… | more |

Economic History As It Happened (Vol IV): Stagnation and the Financial Explosion

Economic History As It Happened (Vol IV): Stagnation and the Financial Explosion

This is the fourth in the magisterial series of essays by the former editors of Monthly Review on the state of the U.S. economy and its relation to the global system. Like its predecessors, this volume focuses on the development of U.S. capitalism as it takes place, and covers the 1980s. The authors stress the profound contradictions of the underlying processes of capital accumulation and identify, before any other economic commentators, the immense implications of the use of the explosion of debt to attempt to solve the problems presented by the underlying stagnation in the real economy.… | more |

The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism

The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism

An Elaboration of Marxian Political Economy

This is the first systematic discussion of the Marxian political economy of Paul Baran, Paul Sweezy, Harry Magdoff, and Samir Amin. John Foster explains their theoretical contributions and situates these in the context of on-going debates on economic theory.… | more |

The Faltering Economy

The Faltering Economy

Paperback, 357 pages ISBN-13: 978-0-85345-604-9 Released: January 1984 The essays in this volume, by veteran economists as well as younger scholars, are part of a radical attempt to grapple with the problems of advanced capitalist development without discarding the real theoretical breakthroughs made by Keynes. The contributors argue that Keynes was correct in pointing to [...]… | more |

Dynamics of Global Crisis

Dynamics of Global Crisis

Preeminent theoreticians of the world economy set out their understanding of the long-term dynamics of global capitalism.… | more |

The World Bank

The World Bank

A Critical Analysis

A careful analysis of the Bank’s own policy papers and reports, which outlines its philosophy of development and the concrete effects of its projects.… | more |

The Long Default

The Long Default

New York City and the Urban Fiscal Crisis

Classic study of the fiscal crisis that gripped New York City — and much of urban America — in the 1970s.… | more |

Four Lectures on Marxism

Four Lectures on Marxism

One of the 20th century’s foremost Marxian economists discusses the dialectical method, the contradictions of capitalism, and the future of Marxism.… | more |