The following paper is a theoretical and empirical study of the determinants of international indebtedness of developing countries. I will argue that indebtedness is a divelopment determined phenomenon and an intrinsic tendency of capitalist development during the stage of the...

The study of economic development in the Third World has been dominated by the comparison of import-substitution industrialization (ISI) and export-led industrialization as two "alternative strategies' of development. Using the theory of the internationalization of capital and Marx's expanded...

The main focus of this paper is to study Iran's current socioeconomic crisis in relation to its role in the postwar international division of labor and the particular policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the 1980s. Iran's crisis is a product of the dialectical relationship between what I...

This paper is an attempt to analyze and contrast the model of the socialist labor process in Marx and Lenin. It demonstrates that Marx's theory of socialism is closely intertwined with his theory of liberation. For Marx, freedom is an act of self-emancipation, and socialism is the voluntary...

This article confirms that OPEC is neither a cartel nor exhibits any sign of market domination, market control, or monopoly. This confirmation is also in accord with the pioneering account of the competitive differential oil rents formed across the global industry since the crises of the 1970s....

The purpose of this article is twofold: (1) to rekindle old debates surrounding the efficacy of craft unionism (as opposed industrial unionism) in the age of globalization in order to provide insight into recent contentions by the Airline Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA) regarding the...