The Editors

John Bellamy Foster

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. See here for all books by John Bellamy Foster; and here for articles.

Brett Clark

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

Michael D. Yates was the associate editor of MR from 2001 to 2018 and was the editorial director of Monthly Review Press until 2025. 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

Paul M. Sweezy

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).