Geography
May 1, 2009
Mao Zedong, The Poems of Mao Zedong, translations, introductions, and notes by Willis Barnstone (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008); 168 pages; $24.95 hardcover, $15.95 paperback. Jonah Raskin is most… READ MORE
May 1, 2009
Nandini Chandra teaches English at Hansraj College, Delhi University. Currently she is a visiting assistant professor at the Asian Languages and Literature Department, University of Minnesota. � Danny Boyle’s Slumdog… READ MORE
April 1, 2009
It is now universally recognized that the U.S. economy is experiencing a deep downturn unlike anything seen since the 1930s. Hence, the question continually arises: How close is this to… READ MORE
April 1, 2009
Ramaa Vasudevan teaches economics at Colorado State University. She is a member of the Union for Radical Political Economics and the Dollars and Sense collective. As the first tremors of… READ MORE
April 1, 2009
Martin Hart-Landsberg teaches economics at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. He is author of The Rush to Development: Economic Change and Political Struggle in South Korea (1993); Korea:… READ MORE
March 1, 2009
As we write these notes in late January 2009 the economic depression is worsening with each passing day, creating previously unthinkable conditions. Even as production sinks and unemployment soars in… READ MORE
March 1, 2009
John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. He is coauthor, with Fred Magdoff, of The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and… READ MORE
March 1, 2009
Michael E. Tigar teaches law at Duke University School of Law, and is the author of Thinking About Terrorism (Chicago: American Bar Association, 2007), and Fighting Injustice (Chicago: American Bar… READ MORE
February 1, 2009
In 1987, in the introduction to their Stagnation and Financial Explosion, Monthly Review editors Harry Magdoff and Paul Sweezy wrote: We both reached adulthood during the 1930s, and it was… READ MORE
February 1, 2009
Samir Amin is director of the African office (in Dakar, Senegal) of the Third World Forum and chair of the World Forum for Alternatives. He is the author of numerous… READ MORE
