A Wisconsin Enigma: Mass Struggle, Then What?
September 1, 2012
Paul Buhle is coeditor, with Mari Jo Buhle, of It Started in Wisconsin (Verso Books, 2012). He has been a Monthly Review contributor since 1970. � Michael D. Yates, editor,… READ MORE
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Medicine and Empire
September 1, 2012
Steffie Woolhandler, MD, MPH and David Himmelstein, MD are Professors of Public Health at City University of New York, Visiting Professors of Medicine at Harvard, and co-founders of Physicians for… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, July-August 2012
July 1, 2012
As the economies of Europe, North America, and Japan continue to stagnate orthodox economics has revealed itself to be bankrupt, unable to explain what is happening much less what to… READ MORE
Introduction to Special Issue on the Critique of Economics
July 1, 2012
Fifty years ago this month two chapters, ’The Giant Corporation” and ’On the Quality of Monopoly Capitalist Society—I,” of Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy’s then forthcoming book, Monopoly Capital, were… READ MORE
A Missing Chapter of Monopoly Capital: Introduction to Baran and Sweezy’s ‘Some Theoretical Implications’
July 1, 2012
Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order by Paul A. Baran and Paul M. Sweezy, published in 1966, is one of the foundational works in the… READ MORE
Some Theoretical Implications
July 1, 2012
The text as published has been edited and includes notes by John Bellamy Foster. � 1 � It may be appropriate at this stage to pause, and, even at the… READ MORE
Last Letters: Correspondence on “Some Theoretical Implications”
July 1, 2012
These “Last Letters” were written by Baran and Sweezy in late February and early March 1964 and concerned “Some Theoretical Implications,” a chapter that Baran had drafted in 1962 and… READ MORE
The Surplus in Monopoly Capitalism and the Imperialist Rent
July 1, 2012
Samir Amin is director of the Third World Forum in Dakar, Senegal. His books include The Liberal Virus, The World We Wish to See, and The Law of Worldwide Value… READ MORE
The GDP Illusion: Value Added versus Value Capture
July 1, 2012
John Smith teaches political economy, human rights, and genocide studies at Kingston University in London. His forthcoming book on imperialism and globalization will be published by Monthly Review Press. Introduction… READ MORE
Keynes, Steindl, and the Critique of Austerity Economics
July 1, 2012
Nina Shapiro is professor of economics at Saint Peter’s College, New Jersey, and a memberof the editorial board of the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics. One may feel tempted to… READ MORE