Labor, exploitation, crises, ideology, planning, and critical perspectives on capitalism and its alternatives.
How Marxist-adjacent and post-Keynesian writers use 'rentier' language to explain stagnation, inequality, and financialization—and where the metaphor helps, strains, or needs better measurement.
How mid‑20th‑century Marxists and neo‑Ricardians tried to explain markups, stagnation, and profit without pretending markets are perfectly competitive—and why their arguments still echo in debates about power and pricing.
A contested Marxist idea holds that better-paid workers in rich countries benefit materially from imperialism—and therefore resist solidarity with the global poor. Here is what the debate actually says, where the evidence stands, and why the argument keeps returning.
A plain-language walk through Marx’s simple and extended reproduction tables: what Departments I and II are, why macro pedagogy still uses them, and how they connect to later debates about growth, crisis, and input–output ideas.
Rosa Luxemburg’s argument that capitalism needs non-capitalist peripheries, and how Justin Rosenberg and international political economy revived materialist accounts of the global system.
Why Marx’s labor values and capitalist prices diverge, how Böhm-Bawerk and later economists framed the puzzle, and what is at stake beyond algebra.
Can worker‑owned firms deliver efficiency and equality together? A plain‑language tour of cooperative models, Yugoslav experiments, Mondragón, and modern empirical lessons—without treating ownership as magic or markets as neutral.
The twentieth century's most consequential argument about whether a planned economy can work — and why it matters for understanding markets, planning, and modern platform economies.
A careful walk through the core categories of Capital Vol. 1 — use-value, exchange-value, surplus value, and exploitation — explained without cheerleading or dismissal.