Research showing an association between business cycles and imprisonment is suspect on both theoretical and empirical grounds. Most research on this topic uses an impoverished notion of business cycles andpays no attention to differences in the institutional contexts o f economic polic.vmaking. This article reexamines this issue using data from 15 afluent capitalist democracies observed over 30...

Prabhat Patnaik is an eminent and prolific economist who has worked creatively for 40 years at the intersection of Marxian and Keynesian theoretical traditions. In addition to his writings on Marxism and Keynesianism per se, he has made important contributions to our understanding of macroeconomics, development economics, and debates around economic justice, capitalism, s ocialism and imperiali...

Paul Mattick's work still awaits a working-class movement which will find in it a historical understanding of a phase in capitalist history ("the mixed economy" of the postwar era) that will allow the working class to make sense of the newness and distinctiveness of its revolutionary aspirations. Paul Mattick realized that this movement may never come, that his message in a bottle may remain fo...

Memory is a social phenomenon that inserted in the dynamics of capitalist mode production and its forms regularization relations. It traversed by disputes, since class societies there are several versions history, memories past usually dominant class. The process memory or evocation occurs from set determinations. Evocation oblivion these historical products. Inside movements, struggle around m...

The text analyses the question why theories with concept of a trans-national class in its centre are insufficiently recognized sociological textbooks. It is an opportunity to present works two most important theoreticians this their respective theories.