Monthly Archives: July 2009

The Economic Crisis and Obama’s Response

James K. Galbraith Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and Department of Government The University of Texas at Austin   Transcript of a lecture given at Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, April 6, 2009 and edited by James Galbraith
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  • Volume 2, Number 2 (2009)

The Question of Hegemony and Capital’s Global Crisis

Kevin Cox Department of Geography, Ohio State University   Marxists commonly see the current global economic crisis in terms of overaccumulation: crisis results from capital’s tendency to overproduce. Every capital speculates on future demand for its product through the anticipated
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  • Volume 2, Number 2 (2009)

Engine of Geopolitics: The Israel Lobby

M. Shahid Alam Department of Economics, Northeastern University  It is impossible to form a proper estimate of Israel—its creation, wars, and expansionist policies — unless we examine it as part of a triangular relationship; the Jewish diaspora and the Western
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  • Volume 2, Number 2 (2009)