Notes from the Editors, May 2020
May 1, 2020
More than a century ago, the British zoologist E. Ray Lankester, Charles Darwin and Thomas Huxley’s protégé and Karl Marx’s close friend, warned in The Kingdom of Man that the… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Political Economy
COVID-19 and Circuits of Capital: New York to China and Back
May 1, 2020
This article is the Review of the Month for the May 2020 issue. The print version will carry the same date at the end of the article the day it… READ MORE
How Long Can Neoliberalism Withstand Climate Crisis?
April 1, 2020
Julius Alexander McGee is assistant professor of sociology at Portland State University. Patrick Trent Greiner is assistant professor of sociology at Vanderbilt University. The climate crisis is proving to be… READ MORE
Crisis of Socialism and Effects of Capitalist Restoration
April 1, 2020
Paul Cockshott is a computer engineer working on computer design and teaching computer science at universities in Scotland. Named on fifty-two patents, his research covers robotics, computer parallelism, 3D TV,… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, March 2020
March 1, 2020
Capitalism, with its history of alienation, exploitation, racism, patriarchy, and homophobia, along with its attempted commodification of everything in existence, has long robbed tens of millions of people in the… READ MORE
Hyman Minsky at 100: Was Minsky a Communist?
March 1, 2020
Riccardo Bellofiore is a professor of economics at the University of Bergamo. He is the author and editor of multiple books, including In Marx’s Laboratory: Critical Interpretations of the “Grundrisse”… READ MORE
A Theory of Mental Health and Monopoly Capitalism
March 1, 2020
David Matthews is a lecturer in sociology and social policy at Coleg Llandrillo, Wales, and the leader of its degree program in health and social care. As an exposition of… READ MORE
The Quality of Monopoly Capitalist Society: Mental Health
March 1, 2020
When Paul A. Baran and Paul M. Sweezy’s Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order was published by Monthly Review Press in 1966, two of the… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, February 2020
February 1, 2020
Economists generally expect wages to rise significantly at the peak of the business cycle. The fact that this is not happening today is seen as something of a paradox. According… READ MORE
The Case for Labor-Led Development
February 1, 2020
`Intan Suwandi is a frequent contributor to Monthly Review. Her book, Value Chains: The New Economic Imperialism (Monthly Review Press, 2019), won the 2018 Paul A. Baran-Paul M. Sweezy Memorial… READ MORE