This volume explores overlapping themes in radical political economy. The first section looks at the disciplinary role of capital under neoliberalism through an examination of official development policies of the US government and the World Bank, labour restructuring in Argentina, the tenuous nature of global finance, and cultural dimensions of bourgeois ideology. The second section examines, theoretically, accumulation of capital and finance and, empirically, the relation of values to prices. The third section focuses, both theoretically and biographically, on the legacy of one of the most important Marxists of all time: Rosa Luxemburg.

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Responding to Neoliberalism in Crisis: Discipline and Empowerment in the World Bank's New Development Agenda Marcus Taylor, University of Warwick

American Imperialism and New Forms of Disciplining the ‘Non-Integrating Gap’ Susanne Soederberg, University of Alberta

The Logic of Neoliberal Finance and Global Financial Fragility: Towards Another Great Depression? Anastasia Nesvetailova, University of Liverpool

Disciplining Labor, Creating Poverty: Neoliberal Structural Reform and the Political Conflict in Argentina Viviana Patroni, York University

Global High Culture in the Era of Neo-Liberalism: The Case of Documenta11 Karyn Ball, University of Alberta

Marx and the Theory of the Monetary Circuit Andrew B. Trigg, The Open University

Hilferding’s Banking Theory in the Light of Steuart and Smith Costas Lapavitsas, University of London

Economic Crisis and Socialist Revolution: Henryk Grossman’s Law of Accumulation, Its First Critics and His Responses Rick Kuhn, Australia National University

Spurious Value-Price Correlations: Some Additional Evidence and Arguments Andrew Kliman, Pace University

The Coherence of Luxemburg’s Theories and Life Estrella Trincado Aznar, Complutense University of Madrid

‘Like a Candle Burning at Both Ends’: Rosa Luxemburg and the Critique of Political Economy Riccardo Bellofiore, University of Bergamo

298 Pages, 2004