September 1, 1999
John Bellamy Foster teaches sociology at the University of Oregon and is a member of the board of the Monthly Review Foundation. This paper was presented at the Veblen-Commons Award… READ MORE
July 1, 1999
In his article on the U.S. economy in this issue, Doug Henwood quotes from a piece by Thomas Friedman in the New York Times Magazine on March 28, and points… READ MORE
July 1, 1999
John S. Saul is a member of the editorial working group of Southern Africa Report and Colin Leys is co-editor of the Socialist Register; both live in Toronto. The authors… READ MORE
July 1, 1999
Prabhat Patnaik teaches at Jawaharlal Nehru University in India. Two propositions dominated the Marxist perspective in most Asian countries during the period immediately following the Second World War. First, capitalism… READ MORE
July 1, 1999
Doug Henwood, editor of Left Business Observer, is the author of WallStreet:How It Works And For Whom (Verso,1997),and A New Economy?, forthcoming from Verso in the spring of 2000. As… READ MORE
June 1, 1999
We celebrated our fiftieth anniversary with a dinner on May 7. It was a really marvellous occasion, and we were delighted to see so many of you there. The space… READ MORE
June 1, 1999
John Bellamy Foster is associate professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. He is the author of Marx’s Ecology (2000), and The Vulnerable Planet (1999, 2nd ed.). He is… READ MORE
June 1, 1999
David McNally teaches political science at York University in Toronto, and is the author of Against the Market: Political Economy, Market Socialism, and the Marxist Critique (1993). “On July 2,… READ MORE
May 1, 1999
� The twentieth anniversary issue of Monthly Review in May 1969 carried the announcement that Harry Magdoff—the independent economist-had officially joined Paul Sweezy as co-editor, replacing Leo Huberman, who had… READ MORE
March 1, 1999
If the United States has ever had a “welfare state,” Social Security must surely be the heart of it. In the world’s most predatory capitalism, this is the closest thing… READ MORE