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Notes from the Editors, January 2003
January 1, 2003
“The American health care system is confronting a crisis.” This was the not very surprising conclusion of a study by a National Academy of Science panel on the U.S. health… READ MORE
A Planetary Defeat: The Failure of Global Environmental Reform
January 1, 2003
This article is reconstructed from the notes for several talks delivered in Johannesburg, South Africa during events leading up to the World Summit on Sustainable Development, August-September 2002. The first… READ MORE
Neoliberalism and Resistance in South Africa
January 1, 2003
Ashwin Desai teaches at the Workers’ College in Durban, South Africa, and is a newspaper columnist and community activist. His most recent book is We are the Poors: Community Struggles… READ MORE
The Political Economy of Intellectual Property
January 1, 2003
We are republishing this article in remembrance of Michael Perelman, who passed away on September 21, 2020. —The Editors Michael Perelman teaches economics at California State University, Chico. This article… READ MORE
Global Capitalism and Israel
January 1, 2003
Adam Hanieh is a researcher and human rights worker living in Ramallah, Palestine. � Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler, The Global Political Economy of Israel (London and Sterling, Virginia: Pluto… READ MORE
The Philosophy and Politics of Freedom
January 1, 2003
Paul Le Blanc has for many years been a teacher and activist in Pittsburgh. His books include: A Short History of the U.S. Working Class: From Colonial Times to the… READ MORE
Occupation’s Mixed Legacy
January 1, 2003
William K. Tabb teaches economics at Queens College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. He is the author of The Postwar Japanese System: Cultural Economy… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, December 2002
December 1, 2002
Among the major countries of the world, the United States has the highest per capita income, and it is often assumed therefore that the ordinary American is materially better off… READ MORE
U.S. Imperial Ambitions and Iraq
December 1, 2002
Officially Washington’s current policy toward Iraq is to bring about a “regime change”—either through a military coup, or by means of a U.S. invasion, justified as a “preemptive attack” against… READ MORE