The Editors

John Bellamy Foster is the editor of MR and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. He has written extensively on political economy, ecology, and Marxism.

     Books

• The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology (2020)
• The Robbery of Nature: Capitalism and the Ecological Rift (with Brett Clark, 2020)
• Trump in the White House: Tragedy and Farce (2017)
• The Endless Crisis: How Monopoly-Finance Capital Produces Stagnation and Upheaval from the USA to China (with Robert W. McChesney, 2012)
• The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth (with Brett Clark and Richard York, 2010)
• The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences (with Fred Magdoff, 2009)
• The Ecological Revolution: Making Peace with the Planet (2009)
• Critique of Intelligent Design: Materialism versus Creationism from Antiquity to the Present (with Brett Clark and Richard York, 2008)
• Naked Imperialism: The U.S. Pursuit of Global Dominance (2006)
• Pox Americana: Exposing the American Empire (co-edited with Robert W. McChesney, 2004)
• Ecology Against Capitalism (2002)
• The Vulnerable Planet: A Short Economic History of the Environment (1999, 2nd Ed.)
• Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature (2000)
• In Defense of History: Marxism and the Postmodern Agenda (co-edited with Ellen Meiksins Wood, 1996)
• Capitalism and the Information Age: The Political Economy of the Global Communication Revolution (co-edited with Ellen Meiksins Wood and Robert W. McChesney, 1998)
• The Faltering Economy: The Problem of Accumulation under Monopoly Capitalism (1982)

Brett Clark is the associate editor of MR and a professor of sociology at the University of Utah.

     Books

• The Robbery of Nature: Capitalism and the Ecological Rift (with John Bellamy Foster, 2020)
• The Tragedy of the Commodity: Oceans, Fisheries, and Aquaculture (with Stefano B. Longo and Rebecca Clausen, 2015)
• Ecology and Power: Struggles over Land and Material Resources in the Past, Present, and Future (coedited with Alf Hornborg and Kenneth Hermele, 2012)
• The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth (with John Bellamy Foster and Richard York, 2011)
• The Science and Humanism of Stephen Jay Gould (with Richard York, 2011)
• Critique of Intelligent Design: Materialism versus Creationism from Antiquity to the Present (with John Bellamy Foster and Richard York, 2008)

Michael D. Yates was the associate editor of MR from 2001 to 2018 and is the editorial director of Monthly Review Press. An expert on labor and economics, he has taught in labor studies programs at schools across the United States, including Penn State, Cornell, and Indiana University.

     Books

• Wisconsin Uprising: Labor Fights Back (editor, 2012)
• The ABCs of the Economic Crisis: What Working People Need to Know (with Fred Magdoff, 2009)
• Why Unions Matter (2nd ed., 2009)
• Cheap Motels and a Hotplate: An Economist’s Travelogue (2006)
• Naming the System: Inequality and Work in the Global Economy (2003)
• Rising from the Ashes?: Labor in the Age of “Global Capitalism” (co-authored with Ellen Wood and Peter Meiksins, 1997)
• Longer Hours, Fewer Jobs (1994)

Harry Magdoff and Paul M. Sweezy, 1985

Harry Magdoff (1913–2006) was co-editor of Monthly Review from 1969 until his death. Before joining the magazine, he served as a chief economist at the U.S. Department of Commerce during the Second World War, and later worked as a special assistant to Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace. His economic analyses of imperialism have been widely influential.

     Books

• Imperialism Without Colonies (2003)
• The Age of Imperialism (1969)
• Imperialism from the Colonial Age to the Present (1977)

     Books co-authored with Paul M. Sweezy

• The Dynamics of U.S. Capitalism (1970)
• The End of Prosperity (1977)
• The Deepening Crisis of U.S. Capitalism (1980)
• Stagnation and the Financial Explosion (1987)
• The Irreversible Crisis (1988)

Paul M. Sweezy (1910–2004) co-founded MR in 1949 with Leo Huberman (1903–1968). A professor of economics at Harvard and later a visiting professor and lecturer at many universities in the United States and abroad, Sweezy was the author of numerous books on economics and politics, including A Theory of Capitalist Development (1942) and, with Paul A. Baran, Monopoly Capital (1966).

     Books

• A Theory of Capitalist Development (1942)
• Socialism (1949)
• The Present as History (1953)
• Cuba: Anatomy of a Revolution (with Leo Huberman, 1960)
• Monopoly Capital (with Paul A. Baran, 1966)
• Socialism in Cuba (with Leo Huberman, 1969)
• Modern Capitalism and Other Essays (1972)
• Post-Revolutionary Society (1980)
• Four Lectures on Marxism (1981)

     Books co-authored with Harry Magdoff

• The Dynamics of U.S. Capitalism (1970)
• The End of Prosperity (1977)
• The Deepening Crisis of U.S. Capitalism (1980)
• Stagnation and the Financial Explosion (1987)
• The Irreversible Crisis (1988)