Notes from the Editors, September 2002
September 1, 2002
The growth and eventual bursting of financial bubbles is an inherent feature of capitalist accumulation, as can be seen in the long history of such crises from the South Sea… READ MORE
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The New Face of Capitalism: Slow Growth, Excess Capital, and a Mountain of Debt
April 1, 2002
For a long time now, the U.S. economy and the economies of the advanced capitalist world as a whole have been experiencing a slowdown in economic growth relative to the… READ MORE
The Argentine Crisis
April 1, 2002
Joseph Halevi teaches in the Political Economy Discipline at the University of Sydney and is associated with the Institut de Recherches Economiques sur la Production et le Développement (IREPD) at… READ MORE
Argentina: An Alternative Proposal to Overcome the Crisis
April 1, 2002
� “There is no alternative” has always been wishful thinking at best, at worst a deliberate lie, on the part of the ruling powers. From out of the ruins to… READ MORE
Japan’s Stagnationist Crisis
February 1, 2002
Joseph Halevi teaches in the Political Economy Discipline at the University of Sydney and is associated with the Institut de Recherches Economiques sur la Production et le Développement (IREPD) at… READ MORE
Monopoly Capital and the New Globalization
January 1, 2002
John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review. He is the author of Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature and The Vulnerable Planet, and co-editor of Hungry for Profit: The Agribusiness… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, September 2001
September 1, 2001
The Economist (June 23, 2001) contained an item that we thought would interest and amuse MR readers. Under the title “More Tomatoes, Please,” it humorously observed: � � It’s tough… READ MORE
Mergers, Concentration, and the Erosion of Democracy
May 1, 2001
Richard B. Du Boff and Edward S. Herman are both longtime contributors to Monthly Review. Du Boff is Professor Emeritus of Economics, Bryn Mawr College. Herman is Professor Emeritus of… READ MORE
The New Economy: Myth and Reality
April 1, 2001
In the last few years the idea of a “New Economy” has gained wide currency, almost rivaling “globalization” as a neologism that characterizes our era. Thus The Economic Report of… READ MORE
New EconomyÉSame Irrational Economy
April 1, 2001
William K. Tabb is a frequent contributor to Monthly Review. He teaches economics at Queens College and political science at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York.This… READ MORE