New Book: How the World Works – The Story of Human Labor from Prehistory to the Modern Day
By Paul Cockshott. From Monthly Review Press: Few authors are able to write cogently in both the scientific and the econ
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: The Economics of Military Spending, A Marxist Perspective
By Adem Yavuz Elveren. From Routledge: The Economics of Military Spending offers a comprehensive analysis of the eff
Why Stagnation?
By David M. Kotz, The U.S. economy has been stuck in stagnation for a decade. The GDP growth rate has been only 2.2% per yea
New Book: Marx’s Capital – An Unfinishable Project?
Edited by Gerald Hubmann & Marcel van der Linden. From Haymarket Books: For almost 150 years, scholars have been de
Global Commodity Chains and the New Imperialism
By Intan Suwandi, R. Jamil Jonna and John Bellamy Foster (originally posted at Monthly Review), Twenty-first-centur
The Real History of Imperialism: A Comment by James Parisot on Recent Debates
By James Parisot, The continuing debate over contemporary imperialism triggered by John Smith’s criticisms of David
New Book: World in Crisis – Marxist Perspectives on Crash & Crisis
Edited by Guglielmo Carchedi and Michael Roberts. From Haymarket Books: The most comprehensive empirically based de
Marx’s economic views: a primer
RIP, Samir Amin (1931-2018)
It is with a heavy heart that I announce that the pioneering political economist Samir Amin has passed. May he Rest In Pow
New Book: Value, Competition and Exploitation – Marx’s Legacy Revisited
By Jonathan F. Cogliano, Peter Flaschel, Reiner Franke, Nils Fröhlich, and Roberto Veneziani. From Edward Elgar: Thi
New Book: Class and Property in Marx’s Economic Thought – Exploring the Basis for Capitalism
By Jørgen Sandemose. From Routledge: This book presents the capitalist system as a function of the interaction of the t
The Dynamics of Capitalism: Money and Financialization
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4GXJBUvUc4&w=640&h=360] Greta Krippner – The Power
Das Kapital after 150 years – a lecture by Riccardo Bellofiore
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1-tElEYzDM&w=640&h=360] Riccardo Bellofiore is professo
Robert Paul Wolff on Karl Marx – Lecture Series
A series of lectures by Robert Paul Wolff on the thought of Karl Marx: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35c
Marx on Automation
The following text is taken from pages 690-711 of the Vintage edition of Karl Marx’s Grundrisse, translated int
New Book: Reading Marx
By Slavoj Žižek, Frank Ruda, & Agon Hamza. From Polity Press: Marx’s critique of political economy is vital
New Book: A World to Win – The Life and Works of Karl Marx
by Sven-Eric Liedman Translated by Jeffrey N. Skinner. From Verso: In this essential new biography—the first to give e