With this issue, we are introducing and new feature section of O&E entitled Archives of Organizational and Environmental Literature. Consciousness of environmental degradation stretches back over millennia; concern about ecological imperialism associated with the growth of the capitalist world economy dates back five centuries; and alarm arising from the environmental effects of machine capitalism can […]
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Sustainable Development of What?
The 1992 Earth Summit in Rio marked a turning point in world history. Faced with the reality of a planetary ecological crisis, all the countries of the world joined in declaring their support for “sustainable development” — or the goal of striking a balance between present development and the potential for future development, the latter […]
Market Fetishism and the Attack on Social Reason
By on December 1, 1995 in Comments-Short Articles-Introductions to Archival Reprints, Short Articles
In an age when the rationalist tradition of the Enlightenment is under attack, it is perhaps worth recalling that the arch-conservative economist, Friedrich Hayek, the leading intellectual figure of the free market right, made one of the sharpest attacks ever to be directed at the idea that reason can play a useful role in shaping […]
Is There an Allocation Problem?: A Comment on Murray Smith’s Analysis of the Falling Profit Rate
In the Fall 1993 issue of Science & Society the editors observed that Murray Smith’s articles on the falling rate of profit, which formed the opening contribution to that issue, constituted an important new study that “should be compared with the work of [Thomas] Weisskopf, [Edward] Wolff and [Fred] Moseley’- all of whom have carried […]
The Spirit of ’68
Review of Nineteen Sixty-Eight: A Personal Memoir by Hans Koning.
Restructuring the World Economy in a Time of Lasting Crisis
Review of Restructuring the World Economy by Joyce Kolko.
The United States and the Crisis of World Finance
Review of Casino Capitalism by Susan Strange.
