1. The ABCs of the Economic Crisis 
   What Working People Need to Know
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2009
   Rich, powerful people created the economic crisis of 2008-09, while hundreds of millions of working people suffer the consequences -- lost homes, lost jobs, rising insecurity, and falling living standards. How could this happen?
2. The Accumulation of Capital 
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1913
   Rosa Luxemburg's analysis of the inherent contradictions of capitalist accumulation.
3. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 1, Number 5 - January 1977
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1977
   
4. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 2, Number 3 - September 1977
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1977
   
5. Capitalism and Theory
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1974
   About the permanent arms economy, the latest phase of capitalism.
6. Cities and the Wealth of Nations
   Principles of Economic Life
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1984
   Jacobs argues that virtually all economic life, no matter how geographically remote from cities, depends on cities to maintain it or change it.
7. The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume I 
   Economic Writings 1
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2013
   This first volume in Rosa Luxemburg's Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 1, contains some of Luxemburg's most important statements on the globalization of capital, wage labour, imperialism, and pre-capitalist economic formations.
8. The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume II 
   Economic Writings 2
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2015
   This volume contains a new English translation of Luxemburg’s most important book, The Accumulation of Capital (1913) as well as her response to its critics. Taken together, they constitute one of the most important Marxist studies of the globalization of capital.
9. Connexions
   Volume 8, Number 2 - Summer 1983 - Toward a New Economy
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1983
   
10. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1987
    
11. The Dismal Science
    How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    
12. Fictitious Capital, Real Retrogression
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2002
    Rarely in its history has capital been so explicit in affirming that people exist for the well-being of the economy rather than the opposite. What is prescribed today in a language synthesizing Orwell and Goebbels is 'reform', 'flexibility', 'risk', 'perfect markets = perfect democracy' and above all the pulverization of anything smacking of the 'social', from job security to decent retirement to public housing to welfare to progressive taxation to health care to unemployment insurance to the Social Security system to state-owned enterprises.
13. The Formation of the Economic Thought of Karl Marx
    1843 to Capital
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
    Mandel discusses the development of Marx's economic ideas from their beginning to the completion of the Grundrisse. He combines a historical retrospective and a review of curent discussions on each of the subjects and problems central to Marxist economic theory.
14. J is for Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2017
    Michael Hudson's new book covers contemporary terms that are misleading or poorly understood as well as many important concepts that have been abandoned -- many on purpose -- from the long history of political economy.
15. The Logic of Marx's Capital
    Replies to Hegelian Criticisms
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    
16. Man's Worldly Goods
    The Story of the Wealth of Nations
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1936   Published: 1968
    Huberman sets out to explain history using economic theory, and to explain economic theory using history. He tries to explain, in terms of the development of economic thought, why certain doctrines arose when they did, how they originated in the very fabric of social life, and how they were developed, modified, and overthrown when the pattern of that fabric was changed.
17. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 28
    Marx 1857 - 1861
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1861
    Economic Manuscripts of 1857-58.
18. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 29
    Marx 1857 - 1861
    Resource Type: Book
    Economic Manuscripts of 1857-58.
19. Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 30
    Marx 1861 - 1863
    Resource Type: Book
    Economic Manuscripts of 1861-63.
20. Marx, Hegel, Ricardo; The "Inverted World" in the Heart of the Critique of Political Economy
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    
21. Marx on Economics
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1961
    A systematic compilation of extracts drawn from Marx's publications with brief summaries of their arguments.
22. Marxist Economic Theory
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1962   Published: 1971
    Marxist Economic Theory is a major intellectual project which adapts Marx's analysis of capitalism to the world of the late 20th century. Mandel examines post-war upheavals in the development of imperialism, monopoly capitalism and the structure of the state-controlled economies.
23. Marxists Internet Archive 
    Resource Type: Website
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
24. The Myth of Marx's Economic Determinism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    Karl Marx is often represented as an "economic determinist" who credited economic structures with a basic determining role in just about every aspect of human life, and simple models such as "base"/"superstructure" are often invoked to support this. Whilst it may be true that Marx understood individuals to have the scope for meaningful thought and action determined by their social context, as Peter G. Stillman shows, it does not follow that there is a direct causal relationship between "economic" circumstances and spheres such as religion, politics or culture.
25. The Myth of 'Simple Commodity Production'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    Many misunderstandings have arisen from and about the structure of Capital. One of these is that Capital has an historical structure beginning with "Simple Commodity Production." As Chris Arthur shows in this article, Marx knows of no such mode of production. Marx begins with the simplest relation of capital and exhibits the relations of capital by means of a LOGICAL, not a historical structure.
26. Nature of Economies
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000   Published: 2001
    Jacobs argues that since human beings exist wholly within nature as part of natural order in every respect, we should look to the processes of nature for vibrant and flexible models of economic planning.
27. On Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    Capitalism has always been a shock doctrine of selfish predation, as one can discover from Hobbes and Locke, Marx and Weber, none of them saluted by Klein. However there are huge third world economies that have been ravaged by neoliberalism that haven't endured "the shock doctrine" as defined by Klein. Ultimately Klen's analysis is limited and she is too gloomy and pessimistic about the power of capitalism.
28. Once Again, On Fictitious Capital
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2003
    Luxemburg rightly took seriously, as a guide to Capital, Marx's vision of capitalism as a transitory phase between feudalism and socialism, and analyzed capitalism's expanded reproduction of society as meaningful in laying the material basis for a higher form of society.
29. A Parable of Pigs
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1972
    There once was a pig farm that was operated by an old farmer, his son, and a hired man. The farmyard was filled with hundreds of pigs of all sizes, and they all ate their swill from a huge trough.
30. Parasites in the Body Economic: the Disasters of Neoliberalism 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Michael Hudson discusses his new book, "Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy."
31. Presentation / Critique of Eamonn Fingleton, In Praise of Hard Industries: Why Manufacturing, Not the Information Economy, Is the Key to Future Prosperity
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999
    Fingleton makes possible an understanding of how deeply our experience over the past three decades in the U.S. has been conditioned and distorted by de-industrialization and the supposed triumph of the "post-industrial" "New Paradigm" economy associated with the computer, the Internet, e-commerce and so forth. His book is one big broadside against the feelgood ideologies which have hyped these developments, and provides much ammunition which the radical left can put to its own uses.
32. Privatizing Social Security: Who Wins?
    Against The Current vol. 114
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2005
    Over the years, there have been numerous attempts and proposals to privatize the social security system. It was a key Republican platform item in the 2000 election. The idea was subsequently thwarted by the small matter of the stock market bust that wiped out $8 trillion of market value, and caused a 60% drop in the NASDAQ over the first two years of Bush's first term.
33. Production or Reproduction?
    Against A Reductionist Reading of Capital In the Left Milieu, And Elsewhere
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2002
    Most readers of Capital come to it with a 'tool kit' of prejudices acquired from their immediate political and social milieu, (and one of course influenced by the dominant society), a 'tool kit' usually imbued with various 'hard-headed' ideas about an early and a late Marx, about Marx as being a completion of the political economy of Smith and Ricardo (and not the critique of political economy, as the sub-title of his book suggests), that this late Marx was and economist in the way that Keynes or Milton Friedman are (in fact) economists, and so on.
34. Railroading Economics
    The Creation of the Free Market Mythology
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    Explores how even in the United States, the market has always been subject to constraints. Perelman examines the way in which these constraints have been defended by such figures as Henry Ford, J. P. Morgan, and Herbert Hoover, and were indeed essential to the expansion of U.S. capitalism.
35. Rosa Luxemburg: Economics for a New Socialist Project
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Reading Marx’ Capital today leaves the same impression as reading Luxemburg’s The Accumulation of Capital. One wonders whether Marx and Luxemburg really wrote their books more than one hundred years ago. If not for their historical references to English industrialization and nineteenth-century imperialism, one might think they were written as analyses of neoliberal globalization from the late twentieth century until today.
36. Running Government Like a Business is Bad for Citizens
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Donald Trump and Jared Kushner say that the government should be run like a business, but that would mean eliminating regulations and expenses that benefit the people.
37. The Shock Doctrine
    The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Klein chronicles free-market disasters of recent years and advances a theory that we are living in the age of 'disaster capitalism'.
38. Small is Beautiful
    A Study of Economics as if People Mattered
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    Schumacher argues that mainstream economics is incompatible with the long-term ends of humanity.
39. Social Reproduction for Beginners: Bringing the Real World Back In
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    We can grasp the social reproductive dimension of the post-1973 crisis in various phenomena in the U.S., but none stands out more sharply than the disappearance of the one-paycheck working-class family.
40. Socialist Register 2006:
    Volume 42: Telling the Truth
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    A collection of essays that examines the difficulties of illuminating the degenerative and secretive nature of public life.
41. Some Big Things Ha-Joon Chang Doesn't Tell You About Capitalism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Chang exposes deadly falsehoods in many of the prevalent neoliberalism's supposedly self-evident "free market" truths. But Chang's book is plagued by key difficulties that belie its claim to iconoclasm, suggesting Chang's own conservative adherence to dominant Western power structures and doctrines.
42. 25 Years After the Gdansk Uprising
    Against The Current vol. 121
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Suzi Weissman interviews David Ost. The occupation of the Gdansk shipyard by Polish workers in 1980, demanding recognition of their independent trade union Solidarnosc, rocked the Eastern bloc and inspired the world. A quarter century later, Communist rule is only a bad memory but the present realities for the Polish working class are a grim choice between neoliberalism and reactionary psedo-populism. The following interview with David Ost, conducted by Suzi Weissman November 28, 2005 for her radio program “Beneath the Surface” on KPFK in Los Angeles (90.7 FM), explores what’s happened to post-Solidarity Poland. It has been edited for publication here.
43. World's Best Economist Tells All!
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    If you want to learn real economics instead of neoliberal junk economics, read Michael Hudson’s books. What you will learn is that neoliberal economics is an apology for the rentier class and the large banks that have succeeded in financializing the economy, shifting consumer spending power from the purchase of goods and services that drive the real economy to the payment of interest and fees to banks.

Experts on Th‚orie ‚conomique in the Sources Directory

1. Marxists Internet Archive