The Financialization of Capitalism
April 1, 2007
This article was prepared for a panel organized by the Union for Radical Political Economics at the Left Forum in New York, March 11, 2007. Changes in capitalism over the… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Political Economy
The Only Viable Economy
April 1, 2007
István Mészáros is author of Socialism or Barbarism: From the “American Century” to the Crossroads (Monthly Review Press, 2001) and Beyond Capital: Toward a Theory of Transition (Monthly Review Press,… READ MORE
The Imperative of an International Guaranteed Income
April 1, 2007
Stephen J. Fortunato Jr. is an associate justice of the Rhode Island Superior Court. His essays and reviews have appeared in the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, the Howard Law… READ MORE
What It Means to Teach
April 1, 2007
Amy Demarest is a former classroom teacher currently writing a doctoral dissertation on how teachers use the local community to engage students more meaningfully in a democratic education. She also… 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
Rank-and-File Rebellions in the Coalfields, 1964-80
March 1, 2007
As a Charleston Gazette reporter since 1982, Paul J. Nyden has won thirty newspaper awards including: a George Polk Award for business reporting, two first-place Society of Professional Journalists awards,… READ MORE
The Long Shadow of Race
March 1, 2007
This is an excerpt from Associate Editor Michael D. Yates’s new book, Cheap Motels and a Hotplate: An Economist’s Travelogue, available from Monthly Review Press. Readers should ask their local… READ MORE
Notes from the Editors, February 2007
February 12, 2007
Monthly Review Press is publishing an exceptionally strong collection of new books in 2007. However, like most small presses the modest budgets we can devote to the promotion of these… READ MORE
‘No Radical Change in the Model’
February 1, 2007
Foreword In the 2006 presidential election campaign in Brazil, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (known as Lula), leader of the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT or Workers’ Party), was interviewed… READ MORE
The State and Economy in Brazil: An Introduction
February 1, 2007
Rosa Maria Marques teaches political economy at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. Paulo Nakatani (pnakatani [at] uol.com.br) teaches economics and social policy at the Federal University of Espírito… READ MORE