It may seem strange that Henry Ford, an automobile manufacturer during the early decades of the twentieth century who died in 1947, should suddenly become a major source of contention among those interested in analyzing the contemporary crisis of the U.S. economy. The last few years, however, have seen a vast expansion of the Ford […]
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The United States and the Crisis of World Finance
Review of Casino Capitalism by Susan Strange.
The Working Class: Is It Dead?
Among those who are convinced of the need for radical social change in the advanced capitalist countries as the world nears the year 2000 there are two broad streams of thought. One of these adheres to the traditional left view that the working class is (almost by definition) the only social force capable of carrying […]
A Turn to Reality
Review of Economics Without Equilibrium by Nicholas Kaldor.
The Political Economy of the United States Left
Review of Radical Political Economy Since the Sixties: A Sociology of Knowledge Analysis by Paul Attewell.
Is Monopoly Capitalism An Illusion?
The theory of capitalism’s monopoly stage has had such a long and distinguished history that one could be excused for thinking of it as an established and non-controversial component of Marxian political economy. Indeed, the “neo-Marxian” theory of secular stagnation which developed out of the analysis of monopoly capital—notably, in the work of Micha Kalecki, […]
