China 2013
March 1, 2013
Samir Amin is director of the Third World Forum in Dakar, Senegal. His books include The Liberal Virus, The World We Wish to See, and The Law of Worldwide Value… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Political Economy
Rise of the Global Corporatocracy: An Interview with John Perkins
March 1, 2013
Ravi Bhandari is co-editor of Real World Globalization and professor of economics at Saint Mary’s College of California. This interview was conducted on September 17, 2012. � � Economic hit… READ MORE
The Man Who Was Over the Rainbow
March 1, 2013
Albert Ruben is the author of The People’s Lawyer: The Center for Constitutional Rights and the Fight for Social Justice from Civil Rights to Guantánamo (Monthly Review Press, 2012). He… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, February 2013
February 1, 2013
For a long time now orthodox economics has been hindered by its extreme irrealism—a refusal even to attempt a realistic theoretical understanding of how modern capitalism functions. The shift to… READ MORE
James Hansen and the Climate-Change Exit Strategy
February 1, 2013
Humanity is not a bunch of lemmings marching unstoppably toward a cliff. There is such a thing as free will…. People please wake up! For the sake of young people,… READ MORE
The First Weapon of Mass Destruction
February 1, 2013
Marc Flandreau is a French economic and financial historian. He teaches at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva and currently researches the early history of U.S. rating… READ MORE
‘Libor’ing Under the Market Illusion
January 1, 2013
Ramaa Vasudevan is an assistant professor of economics at Colorado State University. She is a member of the Union for Radical Political Economics and an associate of the Dollars and… READ MORE
Global Resource Depletion: Is Population the Problem?
January 1, 2013
Fred Magdoff is professor emeritus of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont. He is coauthor with John Bellamy Foster of What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About… READ MORE
Introduction to Lettuce Wars: A Cab Ride for a Lawyer
January 1, 2013
Bruce Neuburger is a former farmworker, GI organizer, movement newspaper writer and editor, and cab driver. A longtime radical political activist, for the past twenty-five years he has been an… READ MORE
Tadeusz Kowalik and the Accumulation of Capital
January 1, 2013
Jan Toporowski is professor of economics and finance at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is writing an intellectual biography of Michał Kalecki and worked… READ MORE