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 |
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
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
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
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 |
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 |
Preeminent theoreticians of the world economy set out their understanding of the long-term dynamics of global capitalism.… | more |
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 |
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 |
One of the 20th century’s foremost Marxian economists discusses the dialectical method, the contradictions of capitalism, and the future of Marxism.… | more |