Capitalism
COVID-19 and Circuits of Capital
by Rob Wallace, Alex Liebman, Luis Fernando Chaves and Rodrick Wallace COVID-19, the illness caused by coronaviru
New Book: The Power of Finance – Financialization and the Real Economy
By Malcolm Sawyer. From Agenda Publishing: Finance has long been an integral part of the capitalist economy, yet since
What’s Wrong with Rent and the Rentier?
By Brett Christophers (originally posted here) Housing rent and the divisive issue of rent controls are once again at t
Capitalism, Neoliberalism and Unfree Labour
By Todd Gordon, (originally posted here) The last several decades has witnessed a sharp increase in legally unfree or c
Firm innovation and capitalist dialectics: The economics of Nina Shapiro
Paper published in The Economic and Labour Relations Review. By Radhika Balakrishnan and Will Milberg. From the abstr
New book: Rereading Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism
by Christian Fuchs. From Pluto Press: The ‘end of history’ has not taken place. Ideological and economic
The Criminalization of Homelessness
By Brian Hennigan; PhD candidate in Geography at Syracuse. The criminalization of homeless people in the United Stat
Apocalypse Economics and Economic Apocalypse
By Richard Westra, What cutting edge economic anthropology and economic history shows is that prior to the dawn of the c
The Ruling Class Does Rule
By Timothy M. Gill, Throughout the mid-20th century, discussions and theoretical debates concerning the nature of t
A Primer on Credit Money
By David Fields, Money cannot be understood as an epiphenomenon, whereby economic power and economic organization ar
New Book: Keynes Against Capitalism – His Economic Case for Social Liberalism
By James Crotty. From Routledge: Keynes is one of the most important and influential economists who ever lived. It is al
Absolute Capitalism
By John Bellamy Foster. (originally posted here) The French poet Charles Baudelaire wrote in 1864 that “the cleveres
Seven Theses on the Capitalist Democratic State
By Michael A. McCarthy What is the capitalist democratic state and how should it be confronted? This question has bedev
Lance Taylor on Growth, Distribution, and the Future of Capitalism
Lance Taylor, Emeritus Professor of Economics at The New School for Social Research, presents his research on the grow
Yes, We Can do Better Than Capitalism
By Richard D. Wolff, By democratizing our workplaces, we can supplant the dominant ecomomic system which cannot escap
On the Violent Abstraction of Nature
By Adam David Morton It was E.P. Thompson who stated, in The Making of the English Working Class, that: When we encounte
Free Markets and the Decline of Democracy
By John Weeks, The ideology of market freedom achieves its fullest expression in an authoritarian state. The regulat
Economists’ Politics Loom Large in their Views of Capitalist Crises
By Mark Horowitz, Radical critics have long maligned economists for their role in normalizing capitalist production
Breaking Through: Towards Second-Generation Neo-Marxist Class Theory
By Dave Neilson, The neo-Marxist challenge to the orthodox Marxist approach opened up a period of exciting, but short-