Notes from the Editors, June 2006
June 1, 2006
In April 2000 Robert W. (Bob) McChesney and John Bellamy Foster joined Harry Magdoff and Paul Sweezy as coeditors of MR. In December 2002, while still coeditor of MR, Bob,… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Political Economy
The New History of the Weather Underground
June 1, 2006
Ron Jacobs is an anti-imperialist activist and a writer. He is the author of The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather Underground (Verso, 1997). � Dan Berger,… READ MORE
The Household Debt Bubble
May 1, 2006
This article returns to an issue addressed here six years ago—in The Editors, “Working-Class Households and the Burden of Debt,” Monthly Review, May 2000. It represents an attempt to update… READ MORE
The End of Retirement
May 1, 2006
Teresa Ghilarducci teaches economics at Notre Dame University and is a visiting professor at the New School for Social Research this spring. She was a member of the Advisory Board… READ MORE
Trouble, Trouble, Debt, and Bubble
May 1, 2006
William K. Tabb taught economics at Queens College for many years, and economics, political science, and sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His books… READ MORE
The Neoliberal ‘Rebirth’ of Development Economics
May 1, 2006
Rémy Herrera is a researcher at the CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research) and teaches at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is also coordinator of the World Forum… READ MORE
Capitalism Is Rotten to the Core
May 1, 2006
Michael D. Yates is associate editor of Monthly Review. He was for many years professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. He is the author of Cheap… READ MORE
Neoliberalism: Myths and Reality
April 1, 2006
Martin Hart-Landsberg teaches economics at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of five books including China and Socialism: Market Reforms and Class Struggle (Monthly Review… READ MORE
Privatizing Education
March 1, 2006
Michael Perelman teaches economics at California State University at Chico and is the author of fifteen books, including Manufacturing Discontent: The Trap of Individualism in Corporate Society (Pluto Press, 2005)… READ MORE
Rebel in the House: The Life and Times of Vito Marcantonio
March 1, 2006
John J. Simon has been a book editor and public radio and television producer. He is a director of the Monthly Review Foundation. You only live once and it is… READ MORE