The “New” Economy and the Labor Movement
April 1, 2001
Michael D. Yates has been closely associated with Monthly Review for many years and is the author of Why Unions Matter (Monthly Review Press, 1998). A New Economy? Today, we… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Economic Theory
The “New Economy” and the Speculative Bubble: An Interview with Doug Henwood
April 1, 2001
Doug Henwood, author of Wall Street: How It Works and for Whom (Verso, 1997) and publisher and primary author of the newsletter Left Business Observer, is a frequent contributor to… READ MORE
Refuting the Big Lie
March 1, 2001
Hugh Stretton, Economics: A New Introduction (Pluto Press, 1999), 864 pages, $90 hardcover, 35 paper. � Doug Dowd lives in San Francisco and Bologna. His most recent book is Capitalism… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, December 2000
December 1, 2000
Praise for Karl Marx—albeit of a somewhat mocking kind—comes from the strangest places nowadays. In their new book Future Perfect: The Challenge and Hidden Promise of Globalization, John Micklethwait and… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, November 2000
November 1, 2000
Dissatisfaction with what has happened to the study of economics is producing a rapidly growing revolt among economics students in France, Britain, the United States, and elsewhere. Within a matter… READ MORE
The Political Economy of the Twentieth Century
June 1, 2000
Samir Amin is director of Forum du Tiers Monde in Dakar, Senegal and the author of numerous books including Spectres of Capitalism (1998), Re-Reading the Postwar Period (1994), Empire of… READ MORE
Working-Class Households and the Burden of Debt
May 1, 2000
It is an old axiom, common to both Marxian and Keynesian economics, that uneven, class-based distribution of income is a determining factor of consumption and investment. How much is spent… READ MORE
Rejoinder to Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin; Panitch and Gindin Reply
May 1, 2000
James K. Galbraith is a professor in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and director of the University of Texas Inequality… READ MORE
Monopoly Capital at the Turn of the Millenium
April 1, 2000
John Bellamy Foster is co-editor, along with Robert W. McChesney, of this issue of Monthly Review . He is the author of Marx’s Ecology and The Vulnerable Planet, both published… READ MORE
Cars and Cities
April 1, 2000
Cities, after all, have a great deal in common with cars. More and more, in fact, they often seem to be turning into cars. There are deep mysteries here, impenetrable… READ MORE