Notes from the Editors, September 2019

2019 ◽  
pp. c2-68
Author(s):  
The Editors
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Historical Materialism ◽  
Fiftieth Anniversary ◽  
The Political ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Marge Piercy ◽  
Social Reproduction Theory ◽  
Monthly Review ◽  
Women’S Liberation

buy this issue This special issue of Monthly Review honors the fiftieth anniversary this month of Margaret Benston's landmark "The Political Economy of Women's Liberation." The essay sparked a revolution in Marxian thought, the full implications of which are only now being perceived in contemporary social reproduction theory. We have reprinted Benson’s pieces together with contributions by Silvia Federici, Martha E. Gimenez, Selma James (interviewed by Ron Augustin), Leith Mullings, Marge Piercy, and Lise Vogel, all of whom have played leading roles since the 1970s in the development of feminist historical materialism.

Notes from the Editors, July-August 2019

2019 ◽  
pp. c2-127
Author(s):  
The Editors
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
World System ◽  
Dynamic Structure ◽  
Global South ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Monthly Review ◽  
Global North

buy this issue This special issue of Monthly Review is meant both to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Harry Magdoff's The Age of Imperialism: The Economics of U.S. Foreign Policy, which was devoted to the analysis of imperialism at the height of U.S. hegemony, and to carry this analysis forward to address the present era of late imperialism in the twenty-first century. In bringing together work on the political economy of imperialism in the current era of globalized production, we seek to transcend the now fashionable view within the Western academic left that the concept of imperialism is obsolete. The imperialist world system stands not only for capitalism at its most concrete historical level, but also for the entire dynamic structure of power constituting accumulation on a world scale, which can only be understood in terms of a developing global rift between center and periphery, global North and global South. Failure to attend to this fissure would be fatal for humanity.

Notes from the Editors, January 2018

2017 ◽  
Vol 69 (8) ◽  
pp. 2
Author(s):  
The Editors
Keyword(s):  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Historical Materialism ◽  
Social Reproduction Theory ◽  
Monthly Review ◽  
Growing Body

buy this issueThe recent rise of social reproduction theory represents one of the most remarkable attempts to extend historical materialism in our time. The Review of the Month in this issue, "Women, Nature, and Capital in the Industrial Revolution," is intended as a contribution to this rapidly growing body of work.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.

More on the Political Economy of Women's Liberation

1970 ◽  
Vol 21 (8) ◽  
pp. 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mickey Rowntree ◽  
John Rowntree
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Women's Liberation ◽  
Women’S Liberation

"She Was My Kind of Scientist"

2019 ◽  
pp. 12-22
Author(s):  
Lise Vogel
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
The Political ◽  
Women's Liberation ◽  
Family Household ◽  
The North ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
Unpaid Labor ◽  
Lightning Bolt ◽  
The Family

In the late 1960s, the North American women's liberation movement was reaching a highpoint of activity, its militancy complemented by a flourishing literature. This was the environment into which Margaret Benston's 1969 Monthly Review essay, "The Political Economy of Women's Liberation," struck like a lightning bolt. At the time, many in the movement were describing women's situation in terms of sociological roles, functions, and structures—reproduction, socialization, psychology, sexuality, and the like. In contrast, Benston proposed an analysis in Marxist terms of women's unpaid labor in the family household. In this way, she definitively shifted the framework for discussion of women's oppression onto the terrain of Marxist political economy.

scholarly journals Introduction to the JIPD Special Issue on Infrastructure

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 176
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Eusepi ◽  
Richard E. Wagner ◽  
Qingyang Gu
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Public Private Partnerships ◽  
The Political ◽  
Demand Side ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Public Infrastructure ◽  
Efficient Tool ◽  
The Public ◽  
Infrastructure Policy

Our intention in assembling this special issue of the Journal of Infrastructure, Policy and Development is to offer a state-of-the-art tour through the political economy issues associated with the provision of public infrastructure, and with the use of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in particular. Anyone who is familiar with PPPs cannot fail to be impressed by the diversity of positions and claims regarding their properties. Some scholars maintain that PPPs are an efficient tool to enhance productivity due to their ability to manage demand-side risk. In contrast, other scholars see in PPPs a scheme whereby the public assumes the risk while the private partner takes the profit.

Das Kapital and political economy in the broad sense: a review on Wang Yanan’s research

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 130-135
Author(s):  
Lu Jiang ◽  
Yang Ge
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Historical Materialism ◽  
Broad Sense ◽  
The Political ◽  
Capitalist System ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Broad Outline

Purpose Wang has focused on the relationship between Das Kapital and the political economy in the broad sense. Numerous ideas covering the political economy in the broad sense are involved in the overall structure of Das Kapital, methodology of historical materialism and analyses of the historical fate of capitalist system. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach In broad outline, the Asiatic, ancient, feudal and modern bourgeois modes of production may be designated as epochs, marking progress in the economic development of society (Wang, 2007b). Historical materialism provides a new, scientific and objective explanation for understanding the dialectical development laws of society. It is crucial for constructing the theoretical system of a political economy in the broad sense. It could be said that it is the key to solving the puzzle of the historical course of social development. Findings Today, economic relations between the world’s top two economies have merged with each other. How can two countries with different systems trade with each other so well? These questions can no longer be answered with traditionally narrow political economic theory. The authors have to seek these answers from the perspective of a political economy in the broad sense. Originality/value Numerous ideas covering the political economy in the broad sense are involved in the overall structure of Das Kapital, methodology of historical materialism, and analyses of the historical fate of capitalist system.

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