Notes from the Editors, October 2009
October 1, 2009
At the time of this writing (late August), the business news in the United States is full of discussions of “recovery” from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression…. READ MORE
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Notes from the Editors, June 2009
June 1, 2009
The grim state of the U.S. economy in early 2009 was brought into sharp relief by economic data released at the end of April. Industrial production in the first quarter… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, May 2009
May 1, 2009
» Notes from the Editors � This issue of Monthly Review marks the sixtieth anniversary of the magazine. We are reprinting here Albert Einstein’s classic article “Why Socialism?,” written for volume… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, April 2009
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
Notes from the Editors, July-August 2008
July 1, 2008
This number of Monthly Review is a special issue on “Ecology: The Moment of Truth,” edited by Brett Clark, John Bellamy Foster, and Richard York. In the present issue we… READ MORE
Finance, Imperialism, and the Hegemony of the Dollar
April 1, 2008
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. The July–August 2007 crisis in… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, February 2008
February 1, 2008
Twenty years ago climatologist James Hansen of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies, widely considered to be the world’s leading authority on global warming, first brought the issue into the… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, June 2007
June 1, 2007
In January 2007 the Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre of the UK Ministry of Defence published a ninety-page report, entitled Global Strategic Trends, 2007–2036, highlighting a wide array of potential… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, March 2007
March 1, 2007
Our friends Leo Panitch and Colin Leys, editors of the Socialist Register, have recently published Coming to Terms with Nature: Socialist Register, 2007 (Monthly Review Press, 2006), which includes contributions… READ MORE