Notes from the Editors, July-August 1999
July 1, 1999
In his article on the U.S. economy in this issue, Doug Henwood quotes from a piece by Thomas Friedman in the New York Times Magazine on March 28, and points… READ MORE
Articles
Unhappy Families: Global Capitalism in a World of Nation-States
July 1, 1999
Ellen Meiksins Wood‘s most recent book is The Origin of Capitalism (NewYork: Monthly ReviewPress, 1999). The word “capitalism” is typically applied to a very wide and diverse range of cases—from… READ MORE
Sub-Saharan Africa in Global Capitalism
July 1, 1999
John S. Saul is a member of the editorial working group of Southern Africa Report and Colin Leys is co-editor of the Socialist Register; both live in Toronto. The authors… READ MORE
Capitalism in Asia at the End of the Millennium
July 1, 1999
Prabhat Patnaik teaches at Jawaharlal Nehru University in India. Two propositions dominated the Marxist perspective in most Asian countries during the period immediately following the Second World War. First, capitalism… READ MORE
Booming, Borrowing, and Consuming: The U.S. Economy in 1999
July 1, 1999
Doug Henwood, editor of Left Business Observer, is the author of WallStreet:How It Works And For Whom (Verso,1997),and A New Economy?, forthcoming from Verso in the spring of 2000. As… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, June 1999
by The Editors
June 1, 1999
We celebrated our fiftieth anniversary with a dinner on May 7. It was a really marvellous occasion, and we were delighted to see so many of you there. The space… READ MORE
Kosovo and the New Imperialism
June 1, 1999
Ellen Meiksins Wood is one of the editors of Monthly Review. Her most recent book is The Origin of Capitalism (Monthly ReviewPress, 1999). Note: We have no way of knowing… READ MORE
NATO’s Balkan Adventure
June 1, 1999
Tariq Ali is a writer and filmmaker. His latest novel, The Book Of Saladin, is published by Verso. � NATO decided to celebrate its fiftieth birthday with a bang in… READ MORE
Is Overcompetition the Problem?
June 1, 1999
John Bellamy Foster is associate professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. He is the author of Marx’s Ecology (2000), and The Vulnerable Planet (1999, 2nd ed.). He is… READ MORE
Turbulence in the World Economy
June 1, 1999
David McNally teaches political science at York University in Toronto, and is the author of Against the Market: Political Economy, Market Socialism, and the Marxist Critique (1993). “On July 2,… READ MORE