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  • Monthly Review Essays
  • Prison, bars, jail, imprisonment (Photo: pxfuel)

    Detainees during the Pandemic

    Originally published: IDEA's (Independent Development Economics Associates) on August 13, 2020 (more by IDEA's (Independent Development Economics Associates))

    It is a common practice all over the world that when those incarcerated face a threat to life, the authorities send them home.

  • How should fashion prepare for global instability? businessoffashion.com

    Global instability and the development project: is the twenty-first century different?

    Originally published: IDEA's (Independent Development Economics Associates) on September 19, 2018 (more by IDEA's (Independent Development Economics Associates))

    Ever since the global financial crisis of 2008–2009, the trajectory of the world economy has been hesitant, unstable and prone to many risks. Output recovery has been limited and fragile; and, more significantly, even in the more dynamic economies, it has not increased good-quality employment or reduced inequality and material insecurity.

  • Capitalism

    Capitalism, poverty and praxis

    Originally published: IDEA's (Independent Development Economics Associates) on April 28, 2018 (more by IDEA's (Independent Development Economics Associates))

    Capitalism is an economic system driven by its own immanent tendencies, which the State that presides over it normally supports, sustains and accelerates.

Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • Honor the Vietnamese, Not Those Who Killed Them
    Michael D. Yates A Vietnamese stamp depicting two Vietnamese resistance fighters shooting down a US Army helicopter.

    Only the courage of those who opposed the war, including the soldiers who did so at great risk, should be respected.

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