Bi-Polar economics in Venezuela In another inversion of leftist determinism, an attempt by Chávez' embattled administration to expropriate Venezuela's largest remaining private…
Finance and the realization problem in Rosa Luxemburg: a ‘circuitist’ reappraisal - Riccardo Bellfiore and Marco Passarella Article showing that Rosa Luxemburg’s analysis of capitalist accumulation is framed within a ‘circuitist’ macroeconomic reading of capitalism as a monetary production economy
Public debt makes the state go round As the general election approaches, the major parties argue over how to deal with the budget deficit. Wine and Cheese examine the global…
"Like a candle burning at both ends": Rosa Luxemburg and the critique of political economy - Riccardo Bellofiore Paper showing how Luxemburg's economic theory and political perspective are much richer than the economic determinism and spontaneism they are usually associated with.
Decline as a Concept - and Its Consequences - Hillel Ticktin This article produces a summary of a theory of decline of capitalism.
A Marxist Political Economy of Capitalist Instability and the Current Crisis - Hillel Ticktin Hillel Ticktin on a Marxist political economy of the financial crisis of 2008-9 and…
About the domination of the commodity - L'Insécurité Sociale L'Insécurité Sociale on how the commodity form and commodity production has come to dominate social life, and how the things we create at work come to control us.
Excerpts from A world without money - Les amis de 4 millions de jeunes travailleurs Translated extracts of this pamphlet by French group Les amis de 4 millions de jeunes travailleurs …
International liquidity crisis and class struggle: first approximation - Loren Goldner 1998 article looking at the relationship between 'international liquidity' and the world financial crisis.
Economic content of socialism in Lenin; is it the same as in Marx? Paresh Chattopadhyay on the economic ideas of Lenin's, as opposed to Marx's socialism.
French investments in Eastern Europe A detailed look at French investment in Eastern Europe, and the exploitation of Eastern European workers by French corporations.
The buck stops here? Amidst late-noughties currency fluctuation, Daniel Berchenko considers the history of the dollar's haphazard rise to global currency standard,…