“(En)Visioning Socialism IV: Raising the Future in Our Imaginations Before Raising It in Reality” (David Laibman, Al Campbell, 2022)
“The Ideology of Late Imperialism” (Zhun Xu, 2021)
“The First Privilege Walk” (Christian Parenti, 2021)
“The Double Gap and the Bottom Line: African American Women’s Wage Gap and Corporate Profits” (Michelle Holder, 2020)
“Racial Equity in Co-ops: 6 Key Challenges and How to Meet Them” (Jessica Gordon Nembhard, 2020)
“The kids might be alright, but what about the moms?” (Michelle Holder, 2020)
“Karl Marx and the Corporation” (J.W. Mason, 2020)
“The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence from Cocaine and Marijuana Mandatory Minimum Sentencing” (Geert Dhondt, 2020)
“Developing Heterodox Economics Curriculum: The Case of John Jay College” (Geert Dhondt, Mathieu Dufour, Jay Hamilton, Ian Seda-Irizarry, 2020)
“How Prisoner Co-ops Reduce Recidivism: Lessons from Puerto Rico and Beyond” (Jessica Gordon Nembhard, 2020)
“The Self-Inflicted Dimensions of Puerto Rico’s Fiscal Crisis” (Argeo Quiñones & Ian Seda-Irizarry, 2020)
“Before COVID-19, Corporate America Shortchanged Black Women $50 Billion Annually: Why All Women Should Care” (Michelle Holder, 2020)
“China: In the Perspective of Historical Materialism” (David Laibman, 2020)
“The Reproductive Structure of a Global Socialist Society” (Julio Huato, 2020)
“Corporations Are Broke. It’s Time to Cut Their Credit Cards.” (Christan Parenti & Dante Dallavalle, 2020)
“Wall Street Is High on Government Supply” (Dante Dallavalle & Christian Parenti, 2020)
“Why College Should Be Free” (J.W. Mason, 2020)
“Economic Surplus, the Baran Ratio, and Capital Accumulation” (Zhun Xu, 2019)
“Why Rent Control Works” (J.W. Mason, 2019)
“The Statistical Physics of a Private Ownership Society” (Julio Huato, 2019)
“Saving the Planet without Self-Loathing” (Christian Parenti, 2019)
“Keeping Class in the Conversation in the Age of the 1%” (Geert Dhondt, Mathieu Dufour, Ian Seda-Irizarry, 2018)
“Informal Employment and China’s Economic Development” (Ying Chen & Zhun Xu, 2017)
“Anarchist Criminology” (Luis Fernandez & Geert Dhondt, 2017)
“Puerto Rico’s Not-So-Natural Disaster” (Heriberto Martinez & Ian Seda-Irizarry, 2017)
“More drugs, less crime: Why crime dropped in New York City, 1985-2007” (Travis Wendel, Geert Dhondt, Ric Curtis, Jay Hamilton, 2016)
Mainstream Macroeconomics and Modern Monetary Theory: What Really Divides Them?
Arjun Jayadev and J.W. Mason (Fall:01)
The Political Economy of Contemporary Puerto Rico
Argeo Quiñones-Pérez and Ian Seda-Irizarry (Spring:07)
Revisiting Bergmann’s Occupational Crowding Model
Michelle Holder (Spring:06)
The Invisible Political Economy of Algorithms A Review of Weapons of Math Destruction by Dr. Cathy O’Neill (2017 Broadway Books)
Joan Hoffman (Spring:05)
Austerity by Design: Yanis Varoufakis’s lessons for reviving European social democracy
JW Mason (Spring:04)
The Critique of Real Abstraction: from the Critical Theory of Society
to the Critique of Political Economy and Back Again
Chris O’Kane (Spring:03)
Keeping Class in the Conversation in the Age of the 1%
Geert Dhondt, Mathieu Dufour, and Ian Seda-Irizarry (Spring:02)
The Path of Negative Totality: From The Critique of Political Economy
to a New Reading of the Critical Theory of The Negative Totality of Capitalist Society
Chris O’Kane (Spring:01)
Behind the Masks of Total Choice: Teaching Alienation in the Age of Inequality
Geert L. Dhondt, Mathieu Dufour, and Ian J. Seda-Irizarry (Fall:01)
The Self-Inflicted Dimensions of Puerto Rico’s crisis
Argeo T. Quinones-Perez. and Ian J. Seda-Irizarry (Fall:02)
The Evolution of State-Local Balance Sheets in the US, 1953-2013
J.W Mason, Arjun Jayadev and Amanda Page-Hoongrajok (Spring:01)
Developing Heterodox Economics Curriculum: The case of John Jay College
Geert Dhondt, Mathieu Dufour, Jay Hamilton, and Ian Seda-Irizarry (Spring:02
A Junta for Puerto Rico
Argeo Quiñones-Pérez and Ian Seda-Irizarry (Fall:01)
Problematizing the Global Economy: Financialization and the “Feudalization” of Capital (Revised from Spring 2014)
Rajesh Bhattacharya and Ian Seda-Irizarry (Spring:01)
TPP: Omissions, Weaknesses, and Erosion and the Howevers
Joan Hoffman (Fall:05)
The Great Recession in the U.S. from the Perspective of the World Economy
Juan Pablo Mateo (Fall:04)
On Laws of Motion, Determinism and Overdetermination:
The Case of the Law of the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall
Juan Pablo Mateo (Fall:03)
Wealth Extraction, Governmental Servitude, and Social Disintegration in Colonial Puerto Rico
Argeo Quiñones-Pérez and Ian Seda-Irizarry (Fall:02)
The Use of Dichotomies in Introductory Economics
Mathieu Dufour and Ian Seda-Irizarry (Fall:01)
Overdetermination and Monetary Essentialisms: A Class Analytic Approach to the Value of Money
Joseph Rebello (Spring:01)
Primitive Accumulation
Rajesh Bhattacharya and Ian Seda-Irizarry (Fall:03)
Balance of Payments Constraints, the US Current Account Deficit and the Crisis of 2008
J. W. Mason (Fall:02)
The Economics of Illusion and Environmental Justice
Joan Hoffman and Jessica Gordon Nembhard (Fall:01)
Re-centering Class in Critical Theory: A Tribute to Stephen A. Resnick (1938-2013)
Rajesh Bhattacharya and Ian Seda-Irizarry (Spring:02)
Financialization: A Critique of the “Autonomization of Capital Thesis
Rajesh Bhattacharya and Ian Seda-Irizarry (Spring:01)
State-Run Capitalism vis-à-vis Private (Quasi) Communism:
The Cases of the British Broadcasting Corporation’s Symphony Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra
Catherine Mulder (Spring:01)
Collective Decision-Making in the Classroom as a Way to Influence Social Praxis
Mathieu Dufour (Fall:01)
The Effect of Prison Population Size on Crime Rates: Evidence from Cocaine and Marijuana Mandatory Minimum Sentencing
Geert Dhondt (Spring:03)
More drugs, less crime: Why crime dropped in New York City and the US, 1981-2007
Geert Dhondt (Spring:02)
Declining in the Periphery: Canada’s Role as a Supplier of Primary Commodities
Mathieu Dufour (Fall:01)
New York State’s Negligent Stewardship Calls for Sustainability Study
Joan Hoffman (Fall:01)
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