Subjects Archives: Political Economy

  • The Crisis of the Capitalist World

    Prabhat Patnaik

    The current crisis of the capitalist world is commonly explained as resulting from “a lack of government regulation of the financial sector”, “insufficient supervision allowing reckless lending by financial institutions”, “the unbridled greed of the financiers”, in short a series of mistakes and aberrations.  These have contributed to a “systems failure” in the words of […]

  • British Jews Call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions against Israel

    Technical Support

    We the undersigned are all of Jewish origin.  When we see the dead and bloodied bodies of young children, the cutting off of water, electricity and food, we are reminded of the siege of the Warsaw Ghetto.  When Dov Weisglass, an adviser to the Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, talked of putting Gazans “on a […]

  • Actually, “It’s the System, Stupid”

    Rick Wolff

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  • Saving the Detroit Three, Finishing Off the UAW: Learning from the Auto Crisis

    Sam Gindin

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  • End of Neoliberalism?  Sorry, Not Yet.

    Patrick Bond

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  • Chávez: Capitalists Have Manipulated the Message of Christ to Exploit the Poor

    Eds.

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  • Socialism Is Practical Christianity

    Bertell Ollman

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  • The Global Capitalist Crisis and India: Time to Start the Discussion

    Analytical Monthly Review

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  • Greek Demo Graphics

    Nassos Kappa aka Crazymonkey

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  • Auto Workers Told to Take Concessions, Abandon Retirees

    Tiffany Ten Eyck

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  • Christmas under Occupation

    Mazin Qumsiyeh

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  • Ron Carey: Working Class Hero

    Deepa Kumar

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  • The Unjustifiable Destruction of the Environment

    Fidel Castro

    Can the capitalist society avoid it? News about this issue are far from encouraging. The project to be submitted for approval on December next year in Copenhagen, where the new Convention that will replace Kyoto’s will be discussed and approved, is being currently analyzed at Poznan.

  • Capitalism’s Crisis through a Marxian Lens

    Rick Wolff

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  • Capitalism in Crisis

    John Bellamy Foster

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  • Rethinking Religion and the Modern

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  • The Financial Crisis of Capitalism

    Fred Magdoff

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  • Employment in Free Fall, Economy Loses 533,000 Jobs

    Dean Baker

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  • Reflections on the Global Economic Crisis and Its Likely Impact on South Africa

    Jeremy Cronin and Blade Nzimande

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  • Bernanke and “The Great Moderation” Four Years Later

    John Bellamy Foster

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