Al Campbell
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1361028 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Al Campbell |
| APELLIDO | Al Campbell |
| FIRMA | AL CAMPBELL |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Utah |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4782-7323 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Dreke Cruz, Víctor. Cuba and the Independence War in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde
Saney, Isaac. Cuba, Africa, and Apartheid’s End
At the heart of this work is a detailed account of the Battle of Cuito Carnivale in Angola in 1987-8.Given that "it was the largest military engagement in Africa since the North African battles of the Second World War" (p. 3) and yet, while not unknown, knowledge of it is minimal anywhere in the world beyond in those countries that were directly involved, that in itself constitutes a reason for an academic text addressing this lacunaIn Chapter 2,…
The Cuban Revolution as More than What Cuba is Today, and In This Issue
While the Cuban economy was relatively lethargic in the decade after the world's Great Recession from 2008 to 2010 (like the economies of many but not all countries around the world), the current economic crisis in Cuba can really only be said to have begun in 2019, exactly as the effects of President Trump's greatly enhanced economic aggression against the Island from late 2017 onward took effect.The economic hardship these measures are causing …
Smith, Rosi. Deepening Participation. The impact of Cuba's local university centers
From Theory to Practice, and Back
University mathematics-support programs rarely test their theoretical foundations against student evidence, particularly in the Global South. This study addresses that gap by analyzing how students’ experiences in Mathematical Thinking Workshops (MTWs) at a South African university confirm, nuance, or challenge assumptions the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD), Action–Process–Object–Schema (APOS) theory, Cognitive Load Theory (CLT), and construc…
Early Gains, Fading Effects
This study evaluates whether theory-informed, mathematically focused support can ease the school-to-university transition in an unequal South African STEM context. First-year students could voluntarily attend Mathematical Thinking Workshops (MTWs) grounded in constructivism, the zone of proximal development, APOS theory, and cognitive load theory, providing low-threat, collaborative practice with non-routine, representation-rich tasks. Because at…
In this issue
Anyone looking at Cuba during 2023 and 2024 was immediately struck by two things.First, the economy became significantly worse than its even-then weak performance in the preceding years (except the first COVID-19 year of 2020, which was already disastrous, as for most places in the world).The last six years of growth in Cuba starting from before 1 the impact of the two main causes of today's terrible economic situation, the greatly strengthened T…
Business Cycle Expansions in the Post-World War II United States Economy
A central question about business cycles has always been “Why do they go up and why do they go down?” This article uses a Marxian profit rate analysis to explore the first part of this question, the dynamics of business cycle expansions, using the relatively detailed data available on the post-World War II US economy. Each cyclical expansion is divided into two phases, early expansion and late expansion, determined by the behavior of the profit r…
Design Principles for Using Rubrics in Engineering Mathematics
Contribution: This concept article shows how the mathematical competencies research framework (MCRF) can guide the design of rubrics to assess engineering mathematics tasks. Practical guidance is given for engineering mathematics educators wanting to create effective rubrics that support student learning and promote academic success. Background: The authors argue that including some rubric-assessed tasks can help students cope better with mathema…
Michael Lebowitz's Fundamental Ideas on Building Socialism
The aggression and the hard times continue, and in this issue
A year ago I titled the introductory "Editorial and issue contents" in this journal "Increased aggression and hard times, and moving forward and this issue's contents". The title still holds, with two adjustments. The aggression, above all from the US economic Blockade, while it has not significantly increased over a year ago, continues. As is widely known, and notwithstanding a few small mitigations, it remains unrelaxed. As of when this editori…
Moving Forward In Hard Times, and In This Issue
For the last four years I have introduced the December issue of this biannual journal with an editorial documenting the central contribution of the Trump/ Biden augmented Blockade to Cuba's ongoing economic hard times.That not only was but still remains appropriate for this international journal on "all things Cuban".The United States has made it clear for decades that it (correctly) considers itself militarily and economically powerful enough to…
Pedro Ross. How the Workers’ Parliaments Saved the Revolution. Reviving Socialism after the Collapse of the Soviet Union
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Financialization and Debt
Starting from the two correct positions that, compared to the form of capitalism that preceded it, neoliberal capitalism has generally been more harmful to working people, and that in it finance plays a greater role in both scale and scope, some political economists argue that in neoliberalism financial capital is parasitic on nonfinancial (or “productive,” or “industrial”) capital. The central argument of this article is that, to the contrary, f…
Moving beyond Capitalism
Major transformations of existing social orders require a broad belief: it is possible to build a viable alternative that addresses the major problems of the existing society. Social discussions involving a multitude of “mid-level concrete” models, or “previsions,” of such a viable alternative combine with the existing social discontent to create such social beliefs. The broad concept of “socialism” designates an organization of society and its p…
Evaluating Against a Multi-Dimensional Economic Goal
The concept of evaluation of any existing or proposed policy only has meaning in relation to some goal. Further, if the goal used for the evaluation is not the actual goal of the actor involved, any conclusions about the effectiveness or appropriateness of the policies are irrelevant for that actor. It is very common for people around the world to evaluate the economic policies of Cuba relative to claimed effects on the rate of growth of Gross Do…
What's next for Cuba? And this issue's contents
As this editorial is being written at the beginning of September 2020, the biggest question on the minds of everyone in Cuba, as in every other place on the planet, is: what comes next from this pandemic
Present-Day Problems of Wage Remuneration in Russia
After the end of the Cold War, the number of books and articles written about Russia dropped greatly, with writing on its economy falling particularly sharply. How Russian workers perceive their wages relative to countries they compare themselves with is one important component of their contentment and perception of well-being, which play such important roles in determining a country’s political economy and economic development. This article draw…
Insanity Is Doing the Same Thing
How do students' beliefs about mathematics ability change in their first year at university
The affective dimension of students’ transition into university is an area of development that has the potential to improve student success. Large-scale research suggests that developing a growth mindset belief –that academic ability can always be expanded–may be especially helpful for first generation students. A starting point for developing growth mindsets as one type of affective support for students is to investigate how we can position stud…
This Issue
Entrepreneurial Cuba - by Ritter, Archibald and Henken, Ted
Updating Cuba's Economic Model
The large majority of articles written outside Cuba about its process of “updating”11 The Cuban government uses the word “updating” (actualizacion) to underline continuity with the heart of their e
Turkey's Economic Fragility, Foreign Capital Dependent Growth and Hot Money
Despite a decade of strong growth, mainstream economists and financial markets have recently escalated their discussion of Turkey's economic ‘fragility’. Contrary to their focus on ‘excessive current account deficits’, the key to understanding Turkey's condition is the foreign capital inflows that facilitate and promote these deficits, and the extent of hot money in the inflows. This paper documents this central fragility and its current explosio…
Cuban Economists on the Cuban Economy
Most published material in English on the Cuban economy is written by non-Cubans. The goal of this book is to present, in English, a spectrum of views on various aspects of the Cuban economy from twelve Cuban economists respected in Cuba for their work. The book’s temporal focus is the Special Period, 1990-2009, though it also presents the previous thirty years as necessary background. The work is divided into three thematic sections of four chap…
Neoliberalism, the Rate of Profit and the Rate of Accumulation
Updating Cuba's Economic Model
The large majority of articles written outside Cuba about its process of “updating”11 The Cuban government uses the word “updating” (actualizacion) to underline continuity with the heart of their e
Introduction
Democratic Planned Socialism
Marx and Engels’ Vision of a Better Society
Post-capitalist society, Socialist society, Marx and Engels, Better society
The Transformation Problem
Cuba Today and the Future of Cuban Socialism
In the April 1996 issue of this magazine, William Smaldone presented his observations and interpretations from his participation in the Seventh Conference of North American and Cuban Philosophers and Social Scientists in Cuba in June 1995.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Democratic Planned Socialism
Cuba
Planning in Cuba Today
In a world ideologically dominated for the past two decades by the theory of markets uber alles (market fundamentalism in more academic terminology), Cuba's rejection of this ideology and its tenacious commitment to comprehensive planning in both theory and practice, under extremely difficult economic conditions, merits investigation. This paper addresses three issues concerning planning in Cuba: the basis for Cuba's continued commitment to plann…
Competition, Conscious Collective Cooperation and Capabilities
Since socialism as a logically consistent system will both produce and require human beings with different consciousness, behavior and capabilities than those produced and required by capitalism, one has a chicken-and-egg dilemma for a transition to socialism. Particularly important is the obfuscation of the social cooperative nature of human production (and hence existence) behind both the ideology and reality of competition and markets. This ar…
Beyond 'Capital
Human Development and Socialist Institutional Transformation
In the light of new historical experiences of popular struggle to build alternatives to capitalism, debates about the process of social change are unavoidable. Intolerable social conditions under capitalism may fuel resentment and rebellion. The development of productive forces may render possible a society in which all can share equally and freely in a decent, secure, fulfilling existence. The realization of such a society depends on human being…
Benjamin I. Page and Lawrence R. Jacobs. Class War? What Americans Really Think about Economic Inequality
Over the past three decades Americans have repeatedly elected conservative leaders, but most Americans’ incomes have stagnated or declined while a tiny slice of Americans at the very top have fared spectacularly well. At the same time, traditionally liberal big government programs like Social Security and Medicare are as popular as ever. These contrasting trends raise the question “What do Americans really want?” Do they desire small government a…
Marx and Engels’ Vision of a Better Society
Post-capitalist society, Socialist society, Marx and Engels, Better society
Neoliberalism, the Rate of Profit and the Rate of Accumulation
Introduction
Cuban Economists on the Cuban Economy
Most published material in English on the Cuban economy is written by non-Cubans. The goal of this book is to present, in English, a spectrum of views on various aspects of the Cuban economy from twelve Cuban economists respected in Cuba for their work. The book’s temporal focus is the Special Period, 1990-2009, though it also presents the previous thirty years as necessary background. The work is divided into three thematic sections of four chap…
Turkey's Economic Fragility, Foreign Capital Dependent Growth and Hot Money
Despite a decade of strong growth, mainstream economists and financial markets have recently escalated their discussion of Turkey's economic ‘fragility’. Contrary to their focus on ‘excessive current account deficits’, the key to understanding Turkey's condition is the foreign capital inflows that facilitate and promote these deficits, and the extent of hot money in the inflows. This paper documents this central fragility and its current explosio…
Updating Cuba's Economic Model
The large majority of articles written outside Cuba about its process of “updating”11 The Cuban government uses the word “updating” (actualizacion) to underline continuity with the heart of their e
This Issue
Entrepreneurial Cuba - by Ritter, Archibald and Henken, Ted
Insanity Is Doing the Same Thing
How do students' beliefs about mathematics ability change in their first year at university
The affective dimension of students’ transition into university is an area of development that has the potential to improve student success. Large-scale research suggests that developing a growth mindset belief –that academic ability can always be expanded–may be especially helpful for first generation students. A starting point for developing growth mindsets as one type of affective support for students is to investigate how we can position stud…
What's next for Cuba? And this issue's contents
As this editorial is being written at the beginning of September 2020, the biggest question on the minds of everyone in Cuba, as in every other place on the planet, is: what comes next from this pandemic
Present-Day Problems of Wage Remuneration in Russia
After the end of the Cold War, the number of books and articles written about Russia dropped greatly, with writing on its economy falling particularly sharply. How Russian workers perceive their wages relative to countries they compare themselves with is one important component of their contentment and perception of well-being, which play such important roles in determining a country’s political economy and economic development. This article draw…
Evaluating Against a Multi-Dimensional Economic Goal
The concept of evaluation of any existing or proposed policy only has meaning in relation to some goal. Further, if the goal used for the evaluation is not the actual goal of the actor involved, any conclusions about the effectiveness or appropriateness of the policies are irrelevant for that actor. It is very common for people around the world to evaluate the economic policies of Cuba relative to claimed effects on the rate of growth of Gross Do…
Financialization and Debt
Starting from the two correct positions that, compared to the form of capitalism that preceded it, neoliberal capitalism has generally been more harmful to working people, and that in it finance plays a greater role in both scale and scope, some political economists argue that in neoliberalism financial capital is parasitic on nonfinancial (or “productive,” or “industrial”) capital. The central argument of this article is that, to the contrary, f…
Moving beyond Capitalism
Major transformations of existing social orders require a broad belief: it is possible to build a viable alternative that addresses the major problems of the existing society. Social discussions involving a multitude of “mid-level concrete” models, or “previsions,” of such a viable alternative combine with the existing social discontent to create such social beliefs. The broad concept of “socialism” designates an organization of society and its p…
The aggression and the hard times continue, and in this issue
A year ago I titled the introductory "Editorial and issue contents" in this journal "Increased aggression and hard times, and moving forward and this issue's contents". The title still holds, with two adjustments. The aggression, above all from the US economic Blockade, while it has not significantly increased over a year ago, continues. As is widely known, and notwithstanding a few small mitigations, it remains unrelaxed. As of when this editori…
Political science (19 obras) · Cuban History and Society (15 obras) · Economics (13 obras) · Law (13 obras) · Sociology (13 obras) · History (12 obras) · Political Economy and Marxism (12 obras) · Politics (12 obras) · Computer Science (9 obras) · Socialism (9 obras)