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
Article Subjects and Geography: Political Economy
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
Capitalism and the Environment
October 1, 2004
This is a slightly modified version of a paper prepared for the roundtable “Socialism in the World” held at Cavtat, Yugoslavia, in October 1988. It first appeared in the June… READ MORE
Argentina: Program for a Popular Economic Recovery
September 1, 2004
In 1976, a military dictatorship seized control of Argentina. A period of terror swept the land as 30,000 people were “disappeared.” The dictatorship, with the support of the United States,… READ MORE
On the Role of Mao Zedong
September 1, 2004
William Hinton was the author of the classic study of revolution in a Chinese rural village, Fanshen. His numerous books on China made him one of the great chroniclers of… READ MORE
Is Iraq Another ‘Vietnam’?
June 1, 2004
An indication of just how bad things have become for the U.S. invaders and occupiers of Iraq is that comparisons with the Vietnam War are now commonplace in the U.S…. READ MORE
What Keeps Capitalism Going?
June 1, 2004
Michael A. Lebowitz is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Simon Fraser University, in Vancouver, and is the author of Beyond Capital: Marx’s Political Economy of the Working Class (Palgrave Macmillan,… READ MORE
Inequalities are Unhealthy
June 1, 2004
Vicente Navarro is Professor of Public Policy, Sociology, and Policy Studies at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Professor of Political and Social Science at Pompeii Fabra… READ MORE
The Illusions of Empire
June 1, 2004
Bashir Abu-Manneh teaches English at Barnard College. This article is an abridged version of his introduction to a symposium he edited on Michael Hardt’s and Antonio Negri’s Empire (Harvard University… READ MORE
The Pentagon and Climate Change
May 1, 2004
Climate Collapse: The Pentagon’s Weather Nightmare —Fortune, February 9, 2004 Now the Pentagon Tells Bush: Climate Change Will Destroy Us —Observer (London), February 22, 2004 Pentagon-Sponsored Climate Report Sparks Hullabaloo… READ MORE