Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the economy and economics.

By the early 1970s, the levers of state economic management had stopped working and the world economy entered a long period of stagnation.

The revolutions of 1989 represent great victories for mass action, but they were limited in effect.

By the end of the 1920s, Stalin's party-state apparatus had become the dominant force in Russian society. A bureaucratic ruling class was formed, and all forms of dissent and resistance were treated a...

The Second World War had created a world divided between two imperialist blocs. Their nuclear arsenals acted as a ‘deterrent’, but rivalry and suspicion meant that war was never far away.

The key to understanding neo-liberalism, in my opinion, is power, not ideology.

The debate about the current global economic "crisis" is obscenely counterintuitive and illogical to the point of incoherence. Who is willing to 'follow the money"? This dictum appears utterly forgott...