Notes from the Editors, November 2009
November 1, 2009
The Monthly Review sixtieth anniversary celebration at the New York Society for Ethical Culture on September 17, 2009, was a great success. A large crowd turned out to hear Grace… READ MORE
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The Real Economy and the Bubble Economy
November 1, 2009
We recently received a very thoughtful letter from Ted Trainer, an Australian ecological socialist (author of Abandon Affluence! and Saving the Environment) who teaches at the University of New South… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, October 2009
October 1, 2009
At the time of this writing (late August), the business news in the United States is full of discussions of “recovery” from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression…. READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, September 2009
September 1, 2009
» Notes from the Editors This month’s Review of the Month by Martin Hart-Landsberg, which addresses the Bolivarian Alternative for the America’s (ALBA), was written before the June 28, 2009, military… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, July-August 2009
July 1, 2009
A new book by economist Frank Ackerman, Can We Afford the Future?: The Economics of a Warming World (Zed, 2009), presents an important and startling thesis: “As the climate science… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, June 2009
June 1, 2009
The grim state of the U.S. economy in early 2009 was brought into sharp relief by economic data released at the end of April. Industrial production in the first quarter… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, May 2009
May 1, 2009
» Notes from the Editors � This issue of Monthly Review marks the sixtieth anniversary of the magazine. We are reprinting here Albert Einstein’s classic article “Why Socialism?,” written for volume… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, April 2009
April 1, 2009
It is now universally recognized that the U.S. economy is experiencing a deep downturn unlike anything seen since the 1930s. Hence, the question continually arises: How close is this to… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, March 2009
March 1, 2009
As we write these notes in late January 2009 the economic depression is worsening with each passing day, creating previously unthinkable conditions. Even as production sinks and unemployment soars in… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, February 2009
February 1, 2009
In 1987, in the introduction to their Stagnation and Financial Explosion, Monthly Review editors Harry Magdoff and Paul Sweezy wrote: We both reached adulthood during the 1930s, and it was… READ MORE