David Barkin, Blanca Lemus
 
Abstract
In the context of great diversity and profound social inequalities, environmental injustice prevails. Conflicts between institutions promoting economic development (i.e., growth) and ecologists and civil society are rampant. This paper introduces alternatives emerging from groups, whose organizations are shape......

以资本主义为基本政治经济制度的国家的经济发展似乎一直处于快速扩张、危机式收缩和长期停滞的较长周期（一般为50年—60年）循环中。马克思主义学者认为这是由其内部的对立阶级，特别是资产阶级和无产阶级之间矛盾斗争的缓和及加剧的周期性演化造成的，而凯恩斯主义学者则认为是不稳定的资本投资引致了这一循环周期的出现。对资本主义社会长期经济周期的解释有著名的长波理论，......

Gabriel Montes-Rojas
 
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This paper constructs a new solution to the Marxian transformation problem in a simple reproduction economy. It imposes two invariant equations using both constant and variable capital, separately, in order to solve the price and value system. This solution produces a profit rate that lays in between the “new inter......

Jan Rehmann
 
Abstract
As we think about how to develop a life-affirming spirituality, we need to be attentive to the social perspectives from which we are speaking. This essay attempts a critique of the widespread conflation of Spinoza and Nietzsche in both mainstream research and poststructuralist interpretations. The assumption of a continuity ......

Zofia Łapniewska
 
Abstract
The purpose of this research is to analyze the process of (re)constitution of urban commons by actors involved in action situations. What follows is a description of the way in which these actors are organized and (re)claim urban space, asserting their rights to the city, in relation to the introduced framework. For ......

David Neumark, William Wascher
 
ABSTRACT
The authors make three points in this reply to the article by Allegretto, Dube, Reich, and Zipperer (ADRZ 2017). First, ADRZ shed no new light on the sensitivity of estimated minimum wage employment effects to the treatment of trends in state-level panel data, and they make some arguments in this context t......

Peter Thompson
 
Abstract
This essay outlines the significance of the unknowable and the spiritual in the works of Ernst Bloch. Bloch argued that Marxism needed to generate a “warm stream” of analysis to complement the “cold stream” of socioeconomic categories. His major works, The Principle of Hope and The Spirit of Utopia, represent attempts......

Jed DeVaro, John S. Heywood*
 
ABSTRACT
Using panel data from 2004 and 2011, the authors find an elevated incidence of work-related ailments (associated with bones, muscles, and joints) in U.K. establishments that use individual performance pay, even after accounting for establishment fixed effects. Fixed-effect estimates also confirm a positive ......

Matías Vernengo, David Fields
 
Abstract
An extensive and important literature has shown that the Rise of the West occurred considerably later than often thought, only in the 19th century, and that the main advantages of the West prior to that period were essentially military. However, this revisionist literature fails to incorporate the insights......

Hwan-Joo Seo, Han Sung Kim, Joonil Kim
 
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This study empirically tests whether the growing importance of shareholder value orientation and financial market liberalization can explain the decline in Korean real investment since the Asian financial crisis. First, the results indicate no negative relationship between increased payments to fin......