Article Subjects and Geography: Political Economy
Washed Up on Long Island: Urban Renewal at the Beach
December 1, 2004
Ellen Leopold is author of A Darker Ribbon: Breast Cancer, Women, and Their Doctors in the Twentieth Century (Beacon Press, 1999). She was an economic policy advisor at the Greater… READ MORE
Scarcity of What and for Whom?
December 1, 2004
Mark Hudson is a doctoral candidate at the University of Oregon in Eugene, specializing in the political economy of the environment. � � Michael Perelman, The Perverse Economy: The Impact… READ MORE
U.S. Imperialism, Europe, and the Middle East
November 1, 2004
Samir Amin is director of the Third World Forum in Dakar, Senegal. His recent books include Obsolescent Capitalism: Contemporary Politics and Global Disorder (Zed Books, 2004) and The Liberal Virus:… READ MORE
The Disciplinary Apparatus of Welfare Reform
November 1, 2004
Janine Fitzgerald teaches sociology at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. In 1996 President Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), to end “welfare as we… READ MORE
Five O’clock, January 2003
November 1, 2004
Tonight as cargoes of my young�fellow countrymen and women are being hauled�into positions aimed at death, positions�they who did not will it suddenly�have to assume�I am thinking of Ed Azevedo�half-awake… READ MORE
The Commitment of an Intellectual: Paul M. Sweezy (1910-2004)
October 1, 2004
A note on the text: A version of this biographical essay was originally made available on MR’s website a few days after Paul died and was widely referred to by… READ MORE
Paul M. Sweezy
October 1, 2004
Michael A. Lebowitz is professor emeritus of economics at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada and the author of Beyond Capital: Marx’s Political Economy of the Working Class (Palgrave,… READ MORE
Why Stagnation?
October 1, 2004
This is a reconstruction from notes of a talk given to the Harvard Economics Club on March 22, 1982, and is reprinted from the June 1982 issue of Monthly Review…. READ MORE
Monopoly Capitalism
October 1, 2004
This essay is from The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, edited by John Eatwell, Murray Milgate, and Peter Newman, copyright © 1987 by Palgrave Macmillan and reprinted with their permission…. READ MORE