"Bernie Sanders' socialist advocacy in the United States, communist China's economic successes and a Marxist revival are inspiring many to muse about improved strategies for building superior socialist futures. Socialist Economic Systems provides an objective record of socialism's promises and...

"The economic crisis that began in 2008 has underscored the impact not only of embedded and assumed ways of managing the economy, but also that present circumstances are the product of a long period of experimentation and bounded diversity; it is understanding the nature of both that forms a...

Freedom to plan : on Kapp's institutional outlook / Michele Cangiani -- Political democracy and social costs : reading K.W. Kapp's "Political economy" today / Regine Heidenreich -- Social costs, social rights and the limits of free market capitalism : a re-reading of Kapp / Maurizio Franzini --...

Introduction : political economy and globalization -- Specifying the constant of capitalism in the theory of a bourgeois utopia -- Periodizing capitalism and the world historic transmutability of capital -- Globalization and the retreat of capital to the interstices of the world -- Barbarism or...

Introduction : political economy and globalization -- Specifying the constant of capitalism in the theory of a bourgeois utopia -- Periodizing capitalism and the world historic transmutability of capital -- Globalization and the retreat of capital to the interstices of the world -- Barbarism or...