It took only twenty months for Buhari to be deposed, to popular acclaim, by the charming Major General Ibrahim Babangida. The ...

Founding editor of NLR, pioneer of Cultural Studies, early analyst of Thatcherism, theorist of Caribbean identities, nuncio of New Times—Robin Blackburn remembers Stuart Hall.

At the mention of long cycles, most economists will recall Joseph Schumpeter’s classic study, Business Cycles. In that work Schumpeter referred to cyclical movements of approximately fifty years in ...

NLR 123, May–June 2020. Includes articles by Adrian Grama, Julian Stallabrass, Roberto Schwarz, Mao Jian, Sharachchandra Lele, Monique Sicard, Wolfgang Streeck, Robert Brenner, Francis Mulhern, Carlo ...

Can degrowth supply a political economy that meets environmental and egalitarian aims? In a powerful contribution to the debate initiated by Herman Daly and Benjamin Kunkel (NLR 109), Robert Pollin ...

Students of parliamentary history are familiar with the idea of ‘Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition’. Marxism, as a social-historical phenomenon, has been Her Modern Majesty’s Opposition to modernity.

A casual reader who picked up Piero Sraffa’s Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities might be fascinated by the crystalline style in which it is written, but he would be puzzled to know why ...

Modernism, Modernity, Modernization Berman’s essential argument, then, starts as follows: ‘There is a mode of vital experience—experience of space and time, of the self and others, of life’s ...

The Impossibility of Innocent Biography The biography, which was so little assessed as a text in the ‘quality’ press, has many solid virtues. Inglis had access to a wide range of what he calls ...

Transformations of the Prison Notebooks’ fertile problematic of hegemony by a quartet of thinkers—Hall, Laclau, Guha, Arrighi—from Jamaica, Buenos Aires, Bengal, Milan. Coercion and persuasion, ...

Hegel and Marx As we have implied in our introductory remarks, the concept of reification makes sense only within a dialectical perspective. Hegel made it clear that the dialectic is precisely the ...

In 2020 Bulgaria joined the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, designed to maintain a stable exchange system between the euro ...