Neither Free Trade Nor Protection provides a critical exploration of mainstream and alternative theories of international trade and presents original evidence of trade's consequences. It rejects the choice between openness and closure. Mainstream economists almost always support 'free trade' but...

This paper documents an increasing regionalization of overseas contracting during the 1980s and 1990s. This involved a greater share within richer countries, particularly of intra-European work. This evidence challenges suggestions that middle-income countries are particularly appropriate...

The centrality of social labor to Marxist epistemology and the need to understand relations between capitalist production, strictly defined, and incompletely marketized forms of work require a relatively broad concept of value. Not simply a theory of price, the utility of the concept of value...

1. Understanding the political economy of global capitalism and crises -- 2. Capitalism and other social orders -- 3. Value theory in an incompletely capitalist society -- 4. The heterogeneity of capital -- 5. A contribution to a theory of crisis and recovery -- 6. States and global capitalism...