Category: Political Economy

By Paul M. Sweezy

One of the 20 th century’s most excellent Marxian economists discusses the dialectical strategy, the contradictions of capitalism, and the way forward for Marxism.

By Julien Mercille

The ecu fiscal obstacle has been ongoing in view that 2008 and whereas austerity has unfold over the continent, it has did not revive economies. The media have performed a massive ideological function in offering the guidelines of monetary and political elites in a beneficial gentle, whether the latter’s objective has been to shift the weight of adjustment onto voters. This publication explains how and why, utilizing a severe political fiscal viewpoint and concentrating on the case of eire. all through, eire is in comparison with modern and ancient examples to contextualise the arguments made.

The publication covers the housing bubble that ended in the crash, the rescue of economic associations by way of the nation, the position of the ecu associations and the overseas financial Fund, austerity, and the potential for leaving the eurozone for Europe’s peripheral countries.

Through a scientific research of Ireland’s major newspapers, it truly is argued that the media mirror elite perspectives and pursuits and downplay substitute guidelines which can result in extra revolutionary responses to the crisis.

By Ben Fine

This Companion takes inventory of the trajectory, achievements, shortcomings and clients of Marxist political economic climate. It displays the members' shared dedication to bringing the tools, theories and ideas of Marx himself to undergo throughout quite a lot of subject matters and views, and it presents a sworn statement to the continued objective and energy of Marxist political economy.

As an entire, this quantity analyzes Marxist political economic system in 3 components: the critique of mainstream economics in all of its types; the severe presence of Marxist political economic system inside, and its impact upon, all the social technology disciplines; and, slicing throughout those, the research of particular themes that straddle disciplinary barriers. the various contributions provide an exposition of simple thoughts, available to the final reader, laying out Marx's personal contribution, its importance, and next positions and debates with and inside of Marxist political economic climate. The authors supply checks of old advancements to and inside of capitalism, and of its present personality and clients. different chapters undertake a mirror-image procedure of pinpointing the stipulations of latest capitalism as a manner of interrogating the ongoing salience of Marxist analysis.

This quantity will tell and encourage a brand new new release of scholars and students to get to grips with Marxist political economic climate from an enlightened and unprejudiced place, and to exploit their wisdom as either a source and gateway to destiny study.

Contributors: G. Albo, R. Albritton, D. Ankarloo, S. Ashman, A.J. Ayers, R. Balakrishnan, J. Banaji, S. Bisnath, M. Boffo, T.J. Byres, A. Campbell, P. Cerni, P. Chattopadhyay, S. Clarke, A. Colás, G.C. Comninel, M. Di Meglio, P.L. dos Santos, G. Duménil, B. high quality, J. Ghosh, G.H. Gimm, H. Goodacre, B. Gruffydd Jones, B. Harriss-White, ok. Hart, M. Itoh, H. Jeon, B. Jessop, D. Johnston, R. Kiely, S. Knafo, D. Laibman, D. Lévy, D. Lo, T. Marois, P. Masina, S.D. Mavroudeas, D. Milonakis, S. Mohun, S. Newman, P. Patnaik, U. Patnaik, L. Pradella, H. Radice, A. Saad-Filho, S. Savran, G. Slater, T. Smith, E. Swyngedouw, B. Tinel, A. Toscano, J. Weeks, E.M. wooden, A. Zack-Williams, P. Zarembka, Y. Zhang

A radical anti-capitalist substitute to Eurozone austerity

at the twenty fifth January 2015 the Greek humans voted in an election of old importance—not only for Greece yet almost certainly all of Europe. the unconventional occasion Syriza used to be elected and austerity and the neoliberal schedule is being challenged. by surprise it sort of feels as though there's another. yet what?

The Eurozone is in a deep and lengthy predicament. it really is now transparent that financial union is a old failure, past repair—and on no account within the pursuits of Europe’s operating people.

construction at the fiscal research of 2 of Europe’s best thinkers, Heiner Flassbeck and Costas Lapavitsas (a candidate status for election on Syriza’s list), Against the Troika is the 1st booklet to suggest a strategic left-wing plan for a way peripheral international locations might go out the euro. With a transformation in govt in Greece, and looming political alterations in international locations corresponding to Spain, this significant intervention lays out an intensive, anti-capitalist programme at a severe juncture for Europe. the ultimate 3 chapters provide an in depth postmortem of the Greek disaster, clarify what could be realized from it—and offer a potential alternative.

opposed to the Troika is a pragmatic blueprint for genuine switch in a continent wracked via concern and austerity.

By Norbert Waszek

-Lawrence S. Stepelevich

By Jonathan Rowe

By Maurice Dobb

This quantity examines questions about the nature and behavior of capitalism and the advance of financial suggestion and the relation among monetary suggestion and perform within the early 20th century.

By David Harvey

“My objective is to get you to learn a booklet by means of Karl Marx known as Capital, quantity 1, and to learn it on Marx’s personal terms…”

The greatest monetary situation because the nice melancholy has generated a surge of curiosity in Marx’s paintings within the attempt to appreciate the origins of our present problem. for almost 40 years, David Harvey has written and lectured on Capital, changing into one of many world’s so much finest Marx scholars.

Based on his fresh lectures, this present quantity goals to deliver this intensity of studying to a broader viewers, guiding first-time readers via a desirable and deeply profitable textual content. A spouse to Marx’s Capital bargains clean, unique and infrequently severe interpretations of a booklet that modified the process historical past and, as Harvey intimates, could accomplish that again.

David Harvey’s video lecture direction are available the following: davidharvey.org/reading-capital/

By Charles Post

Ellen Meiksins wooden (Foreword)

Unable to investigate the dynamics of particular kinds of social labour within the antebellum united states, such a lot historians of the united states Civil battle have missed its deep social roots. to find those roots, publish applies the theoretical insights from the transition debates to the ancient literature at the U.S. to supply a brand new research of the origins of yank capitalism.

Reviews

Short indexed for the 2011 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize

"Charles Post's new e-book, the yankee street to Capitalism, is certain to develop into a reference aspect for debates between historians and Marxists in regards to the transformation of the English colonies into the absolutely built capitalist usa. [...] it's going to be generally learn, preferred for its insights and rigor, and likewise debated."
—Ashley Smith, foreign Socialist Review

"This is a considerate, realized, stimulating, not easy and altogether useful quantity. It reprints a chain of reflections by means of the Marxist sociologist Charles submit on a variety of facets of the increase and evolution of capitalism in North the USA among the colonial period and the past due nineteenth century. The ebook is anchored in a wide-ranging research of (and it duly credit) the paintings of generations of historians."
—Bruce Levine, writer of accomplice Emancipation: Southern Plans to loose and Arm Slaves in the course of the Civil War

"Explaining the starting place and early improvement of yank capitalism is a very hard job. it truly is in many ways much more tough than in different situations to strike the ideal historic stability, taking pictures the systemic imperatives of capitalism, and explaining how they emerged, whereas doing justice to historic particularities… To confront those old complexities calls for either a command of old element and a transparent theoretical snatch of capitalism’s systemic imperatives, a mixture that's all too infrequent. Charles put up succeeds in impressive that tough stability, which makes his ebook a huge contribution to really ancient scholarship."
—Ellen Meiksins-Wood, York collage, writer of The Origins of Capitalism: a protracted View.

"In the yankee highway to Capitalism, Charles publish deals a super reinterpretation of the origins and diverging paths of monetary evolution within the American north and south. the 1st systematic ancient materialist account people improvement from the colonial interval in the course of the civil struggle in a long time, it truly is bound to be obtained as a landmark contribution."
—Robert P. Brenner, collage of California-Los Angeles, writer of Agrarian category constitution and fiscal improvement in Early smooth Europe and retailers and Revolution: advertisement swap, Political clash, and London's in another country investors, 1550-1653.

"Charles publish has written an exceptional ebook at the origins of yankee capitalism within the antebellum North, on plantation slavery within the previous South and at the cataclysmic clash among them. His interpretation is daring and debatable; it's going to must be thought of through all students within the field."
—John Ashworth, collage of Nottingham, writer of Slavery, Capitalism and the Antebellum Republic.

"This is the main unique and provocative materialist interpretation of the origins and dynamics people capitalism for a very long time. put up combines awesome command of the historic assets with a pointy analytical realizing, now not least of the centrality of agrarian inquiries to the improvement of capitalism."
—Henry Bernstein, collage of London, tuition of Oriental and African reports and China Agricultural collage, Beijing, emeritus editor magazine of Agrarian Change.

"Over the earlier 3 many years, Charles submit has been constructing an unique and robust interpretation of the yankee highway to capitalism. This quantity brings jointly his most vital essays in what's guaranteed to be a landmark quantity. put up brilliantly analyzes the structural foundation of monetary improvement in either the North and the South, culminating in a robust interpretation of the social foundation of the Civil battle. The e-book is without doubt one of the top examples of historic sociology that i've got noticeable in recent times, easily melding conception and historic examine. this is often engaged scholarship of the top order."
—Vivek Chibber, ny college, writer of Locked In position: country development and overdue Industrialization in India

“Charlie Post's the yankee street to Capitalism is a magisterial textual content that merits a detailed studying, specifically through students trying to make experience of twentieth century capitalism within the United States.
—Jordy Cummings, The magazine of Socialist reviews