Martin Hart-Landsberg
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3673573 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Martin Hart-Landsberg |
| NOMBRES | Martin |
| APELLIDO | Hart-Landsberg |
| FIRMA | HART-LANDSBERG M |
| AFILIACIONES | Department of Economics, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon 97219 |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 44 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 77 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1985 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Tech Billionaires, the AI Threat, and Resistance
Martin Hart-Landsberg gives an in-depth account of the oligarchs of Silicon Valley and their embrace of transhumanist ideologies that celebrate individualism and technological advancement above all else. However, he asserts, all is not lost, as growing dissatisfaction with capitalism "is slowly but steadily helping to grow a movement of resistance"—a resistance that must recognize that it is not just tech billionaires but capitalism itself threat…
Planning an Ecologically Sustainable and Democratic Economy
As the impending planetary crisis looms ever-closer, Martin Hart-Landsberg proposes a new focus on the Second World War industrial conversion experience, in which production and consumption were guided by central planning agencies. These successes and pitfalls of this period provide many useful lessons for activists and organizers working toward planned degrowth
U.S. Economic Planning in the Second World War and the Planetary Crisis
Martin Hart-Landsberg revisits the history of the industrial re-organization of the U.S. economy during the Second World War. What can we learn from our past about the systemic changes necessary to face our future
Lessons from Iceland
If we are to build support for an alternative to capitalism we need clarity on the causes and consequences of the contemporary capitalist drive for greater liberalization and privatization, as well as the benefits from and limits to state direction of capitalist economic activity. Although a small country, Iceland's recent experience has much to teach us about capitalist dynamics and strategies of transformation.This article can also be found at …
Alba and the Promise of Cooperative Development
Existing international economic institutions and relations operate in ways detrimental to third world development. That is why eight Latin American and Caribbean countries—led by Venezuela, Cuba, and Bolivia—are working to build the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA), a regional initiative designed to promote new, nonmarket-shaped structures and patterns of economic cooperation.... In response to worsening international economic conditio…
The U.S. Economy and China
The U.S. economy is in bad shape and people are understandably seeking solutions. Many, encouraged by mainstream media and politicians, believe that China's trade policies bear primary responsibility for the structural decay of our economy and that recovery will require, above all, pressuring the Chinese government to implement "market-freeing" policy changes that will bring the U.S.-China trade relationship into balance....Despite its popularity…
The Promise and Perils of Korean Reunification
It seems that nearly everyone publicly supports the reunification of Korea — the governments of the United States, North Korea, and South Korea, as well as the great majority of people in both North and South Korea. This should make us all nervous because it means that different people mean different things when they talk about reunification. We need to think carefully about what we mean when we offer our own support for reunification or, said di…
Learning from Alba and the Bank of the South
The current period is marked by three overlapping developments: the failure of neoliberalism, the crisis of the East Asian export-led growth model, and South American efforts to advance an alternative regional development strategy. The combination has created a political environment offering important opportunities for those committed to the international struggle to supplant capitalism.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website…
China, Capitalist Accumulation, and Labor
Most economists continue to celebrate China as one of the most successful developing countries in modern times. We, however, are highly critical of the Chinese growth experience. China's growth has been driven by the intensified exploitation of the country's farmers and workers, who have been systematically dispossessed through the break-up of the communes, the resultant collapse of health and education services, and massive state-enterprise layo…
China and the Dynamics of Transnational Accumulation
Neoliberalism
Agreements like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) have enhanced transnational capitalist power and profits at the cost of growing economic instability and deteriorating working and living conditions. Despite this reality, neoliberal claims that liberalization, deregulation, and privatization produce unrivaled benefits have been repeated so often that many working people accept them as unchallen…
China and Socialism
The Chinese economic experience remains the source of important lessons about the challenges of building socialism. However, the current lessons are mostly negative. Tragically, the Chinese government's program of "market reforms," which was allegedly supposed to reinvigorate socialism, has instead led the country down a slippery slope toward an increasingly capitalist, foreign-dominated development path. The resulting domestic and international …
China and Socialism
China's post-reform rapid economic rise has led many progressives to view the country as a development model whose experience proves that there are viable alternative paths to growth within the existing capitalist world system. Significantly, although not widely acknowledged by most of these progressives, many mainstream economists have also embraced China as a development model.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where …
China and Socialism
We have argued that it is wrong to celebrate China as an economic success story or development model. But why is it so important how socialists and other progressives understand China? Is this all just an academic desire to properly interpret the Chinese experience, or a political sectarianism based on an a priori notion of "pure" socialism? The answer is no; the stakes are arguably much higher and more meaningful.This article can also be found a…
China and Socialism
When the leaders of China's Communist Party announced their program of market socialist reforms in 1978, they argued that it was necessary to overcome the country's growing problems of economic stagnation and waste caused by the Mao era's overly centralized state systems of planning and production. China's rapid growth and industrial transformation during the 1980s encouraged many on the left, both inside and outside of China, to view market soci…
China and Socialism
Many progressives agree that China is not a socialist country, but argue that its controlled process of transformation has been a success, having produced rapid industrial growth and a rising standard of living for the great majority of Chinese. The reality, however, is that the marketization, privatization, and increasing foreign domination of China's economy have generated growing tensions and contradictions that have already undermined economi…
China and Socialism
China and socialism ... during the three decades following the 1949 establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC), it seemed as if these words would forever be joined in an inspiring unity. China had been forced to suffer the humiliation of defeat in the 1840–42 Opium War with Great Britain and the ever-expanding treaty port system that followed it. The Chinese people suffered under not only despotic rule by their emperor and then a serie…
China and Socialism
China has become a major regional and global economic force. It has not only recorded double-digit real GDP growth for most of the decade 1985–95, but also maintained rapid growth of over 7 percent per year during and after the 1997–98 East Asian crisis. According to Stephen Roach, chief economist for Morgan Stanley, "China's growth rate is now strong enough to have accounted for 17.5 percent of the growth in world gross domestic product [in 2002…
China and Socialism
Data tables for "China & SocialismThis 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
Development, Crisis, and Class Struggle in East Asia
A critique of "catch-up" theories of development
The Asian crisis has rekindled the debate between advocates of neoliberalism, left-wing neoliberalism, and developmental-statism over the best institutions and policies for achieving economic development. However, this debate continues to generate far more heat than light. One reason is that, despite their alleged differences, all three mainstream theories share a common conception of development as "catch-up." A second and even more important re…
Progressive capitalism, crisis, and class struggle
Despite the recent upsurge of global economic instability and anti-capitalist protest, many left economists and progressive policy programs continue to draw their main inspiration from the purported equity and efficiency of particular varieties of capitalism. This tendency derives its legitimacy in large part from 'progressive competitiveness' interpretations of the postwar Japanese experience. Unfortunately, these interpretations and the politic…
Challenging Neoliberal Myths
Representatives of the established order were unprepared for the massive 1999 demonstrations in Seattle against the World Trade Organziation (WTO) and remain on the defensive in the face of the internationally coordinated actions against neoliberal globalization that have followed. On an ideological level, they have responded by seeking to undermine the legitimacy of antiglobalization activists, especially those in the developed capitalist world,…
Development, Crisis, and Class Struggle
Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction PART I: ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON EAST ASIA: IDEOLOGY IN DEVELOPMENT VISIONS A Marxist Perspective on the Neoliberal Versus Structural-Institutionalist Debate Flying Geese and Greater China Approaches: The Limits of Regionalized 'Modernization' The Challenge and the Contradictions of Dependency Analysis The Use and Abuse of Japan as a Progressive Model PART II: JAPANESE CAPITALISM: DEVELOPMENT…
Crisis and Recovery in East Asia
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
A critique of "catch-up" theories of development
The Asian crisis has rekindled the debate between advocates of neoliberalism, left-wing neoliberalism, and developmental-statism over the best institutions and policies for achieving economic development. However, this debate continues to generate far more heat than light. One reason is that, despite their alleged differences, all three mainstream theories share a common conception of development as "catch-up." A second and even more important re…
Contradictions of Capitalist Industrialization in East Asia
According to most development economists, the economic "miracle" of the ASEAN-3, following the earlier experiences of Japan and the Asian NIEs, demonstrates the benefits of export-led growth. This conclusion is shared by neoliberals and structural-institutionalists, despite disagreements over the role of state intervention. Both views are represented in increasingly influential "flying geese" theories, which credit regional economic dynamics, in …
East Asia and the crisis of development theory
China and the Dynamics of Transnational Accumulation
Neoliberalism
Agreements like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) have enhanced transnational capitalist power and profits at the cost of growing economic instability and deteriorating working and living conditions. Despite this reality, neoliberal claims that liberalization, deregulation, and privatization produce unrivaled benefits have been repeated so often that many working people accept them as unchallen…
China and Socialism
China and socialism ... during the three decades following the 1949 establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC), it seemed as if these words would forever be joined in an inspiring unity. China had been forced to suffer the humiliation of defeat in the 1840–42 Opium War with Great Britain and the ever-expanding treaty port system that followed it. The Chinese people suffered under not only despotic rule by their emperor and then a serie…
Progressive capitalism, crisis, and class struggle
Despite the recent upsurge of global economic instability and anti-capitalist protest, many left economists and progressive policy programs continue to draw their main inspiration from the purported equity and efficiency of particular varieties of capitalism. This tendency derives its legitimacy in large part from 'progressive competitiveness' interpretations of the postwar Japanese experience. Unfortunately, these interpretations and the politic…
Crisis and Recovery in East Asia
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
The Left-Liberal Consensus on Japan
Although most Americans are angry about the deterioration in their living and working conditions, mainstream analysts and decision-makers have nonetheless been remarkably successful in convincing them that only free-market policies can ensure the economic competitiveness required to achieve victory in the global marketplace and a reversal of negative trends. Many progressives have understandably responded to this successful ideological offensive …
Lessons from Iceland
If we are to build support for an alternative to capitalism we need clarity on the causes and consequences of the contemporary capitalist drive for greater liberalization and privatization, as well as the benefits from and limits to state direction of capitalist economic activity. Although a small country, Iceland's recent experience has much to teach us about capitalist dynamics and strategies of transformation.This article can also be found at …
The U.S. Economy and China
The U.S. economy is in bad shape and people are understandably seeking solutions. Many, encouraged by mainstream media and politicians, believe that China's trade policies bear primary responsibility for the structural decay of our economy and that recovery will require, above all, pressuring the Chinese government to implement "market-freeing" policy changes that will bring the U.S.-China trade relationship into balance....Despite its popularity…
China, Capitalist Accumulation, and Labor
Most economists continue to celebrate China as one of the most successful developing countries in modern times. We, however, are highly critical of the Chinese growth experience. China's growth has been driven by the intensified exploitation of the country's farmers and workers, who have been systematically dispossessed through the break-up of the communes, the resultant collapse of health and education services, and massive state-enterprise layo…
China and Socialism
The Chinese economic experience remains the source of important lessons about the challenges of building socialism. However, the current lessons are mostly negative. Tragically, the Chinese government's program of "market reforms," which was allegedly supposed to reinvigorate socialism, has instead led the country down a slippery slope toward an increasingly capitalist, foreign-dominated development path. The resulting domestic and international …
China and Socialism
When the leaders of China's Communist Party announced their program of market socialist reforms in 1978, they argued that it was necessary to overcome the country's growing problems of economic stagnation and waste caused by the Mao era's overly centralized state systems of planning and production. China's rapid growth and industrial transformation during the 1980s encouraged many on the left, both inside and outside of China, to view market soci…
Challenging Neoliberal Myths
Representatives of the established order were unprepared for the massive 1999 demonstrations in Seattle against the World Trade Organziation (WTO) and remain on the defensive in the face of the internationally coordinated actions against neoliberal globalization that have followed. On an ideological level, they have responded by seeking to undermine the legitimacy of antiglobalization activists, especially those in the developed capitalist world,…
Korean unification
1996). Korean unification: Learning from the German experience. Journal of Contemporary Asia: Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 59-80
Post-Nafta Politics
The recent passage of NAFTA marks another advance in the ongoing TNC (transnational corporate)-led process of North American economic integration, a process which has already shown itself to be destructive of community, the environment, and equality. While the North American corporate community clearly favors this integration, the many anti-NAFTA rallies and demonstrations in Canada, Mexico, and the United States gives strong indication that most…
South Korea
Nearly all the friends and comrades of my youth are dead, hundreds of them; nationalist, Christian, anarchist, terrorist, Communist. But they are all alive to me.... On the battlefields and execution grounds, on the streets of city and village, their warm revolutionary blood flowed proudly into the soil of Korea, Manchuria, Siberia, Japan, China. They failed in the immediate thing, but history keeps a fine accounting. - Nym Wales and Kim SanThis …
South Korea
During 1987 popular opposition to South Korea's military dictatorship again burst into the streets of South Korean cities and into the U.S. news media. Successfully organizing around demands for democracy and reunification, progressive forces placed the dictatorship on the defensive.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…
Another Look At Reindustrialization
Reindustrialization and the Logic of Class Politics in Late 20Th Century America
Job Creation
South Korea
During 1987 popular opposition to South Korea's military dictatorship again burst into the streets of South Korean cities and into the U.S. news media. Successfully organizing around demands for democracy and reunification, progressive forces placed the dictatorship on the defensive.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…
South Korea
This paper argues that the Korean people did not support the U.S.-sponsored division of their country or the establishment of a capitalist political economy in the South. Moreover, because of the nature of the South Korean model of development, the widely celebrated economic growth has not secured either economic stability or political legitimacy for the regime. The paper concludes that progressive forces, with roots in Korean history, are now pr…
South Korea
Nearly all the friends and comrades of my youth are dead, hundreds of them; nationalist, Christian, anarchist, terrorist, Communist. But they are all alive to me.... On the battlefields and execution grounds, on the streets of city and village, their warm revolutionary blood flowed proudly into the soil of Korea, Manchuria, Siberia, Japan, China. They failed in the immediate thing, but history keeps a fine accounting. - Nym Wales and Kim SanThis …
Learning from South Korea
Review of Asia's Next Giant: South Korea and Late Industrialization by Alice H. Amsden.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
The Asian NICs at the Crossroads
Review of Dragons in Distress: Asia's Miracle Economies in Crisis by Walden Bello and Stephanie Rosenfeld.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
Post-Nafta Politics
The recent passage of NAFTA marks another advance in the ongoing TNC (transnational corporate)-led process of North American economic integration, a process which has already shown itself to be destructive of community, the environment, and equality. While the North American corporate community clearly favors this integration, the many anti-NAFTA rallies and demonstrations in Canada, Mexico, and the United States gives strong indication that most…
Dark Victory
Review of Dark Victory: The United States, Structural Adjustment, and Global Poverty by Walden Bello with Shea Cunningham and Bill Rau.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
The Left-Liberal Consensus on Japan
Although most Americans are angry about the deterioration in their living and working conditions, mainstream analysts and decision-makers have nonetheless been remarkably successful in convincing them that only free-market policies can ensure the economic competitiveness required to achieve victory in the global marketplace and a reversal of negative trends. Many progressives have understandably responded to this successful ideological offensive …
Korean unification
1996). Korean unification: Learning from the German experience. Journal of Contemporary Asia: Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 59-80
Contradictions of Capitalist Industrialization in East Asia
According to most development economists, the economic "miracle" of the ASEAN-3, following the earlier experiences of Japan and the Asian NIEs, demonstrates the benefits of export-led growth. This conclusion is shared by neoliberals and structural-institutionalists, despite disagreements over the role of state intervention. Both views are represented in increasingly influential "flying geese" theories, which credit regional economic dynamics, in …
East Asia and the crisis of development theory
East Asia in Crisis
The 1997–1998 economic collapse of Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, and South Korea came as a shock not only to government and business leaders, but also to development economists. Even after the assault on Asian currencies moved into full swing in mid-1997, the Asian Development Bank's chief economist still predicted that "these economies should be growing again at a fair clip in the second half of 1998 and thereafter. However, the end of the year…
A critique of the “mismatch” model
In this “critique and rejoinder” Martin Hart-Landsberg and Paul Burkett argue that Constance Lever-Tracy and Noel Tracy (authors of “Mismatch at the Interface,” Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 31, no. 3 [1999)) have fallen into the trap of searching for an “optimal” form of capitalism rather than moving beyond contemporary capitalism's “end-of-history” ideology and envisioning and struggling for a more sustainable and human-developmental sys…
Setting the Record Straight on the Korean War
The Korean War (1945–53) by Hugh DeaneThis 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
After Seattle
The Seattle anti-World Trade Organization (WTO) actions have justifiably generated a lot of excitement, renewed political activism, and considerable serious discussion on the left about next steps. For the first time in a long time, we are in the position to think and act strategically, with movement-building in mind. In what follows, I evaluate the Seattle experience; examine several political initiatives; explore the relationships among issues,…
Crisis and Recovery in East Asia
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Crisis and Recovery in East Asia
Challenging Neoliberal Myths
Representatives of the established order were unprepared for the massive 1999 demonstrations in Seattle against the World Trade Organziation (WTO) and remain on the defensive in the face of the internationally coordinated actions against neoliberal globalization that have followed. On an ideological level, they have responded by seeking to undermine the legitimacy of antiglobalization activists, especially those in the developed capitalist world,…
Development, Crisis, and Class Struggle
Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction PART I: ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON EAST ASIA: IDEOLOGY IN DEVELOPMENT VISIONS A Marxist Perspective on the Neoliberal Versus Structural-Institutionalist Debate Flying Geese and Greater China Approaches: The Limits of Regionalized 'Modernization' The Challenge and the Contradictions of Dependency Analysis The Use and Abuse of Japan as a Progressive Model PART II: JAPANESE CAPITALISM: DEVELOPMENT…
Development, Crisis, and Class Struggle in East Asia
A critique of "catch-up" theories of development
The Asian crisis has rekindled the debate between advocates of neoliberalism, left-wing neoliberalism, and developmental-statism over the best institutions and policies for achieving economic development. However, this debate continues to generate far more heat than light. One reason is that, despite their alleged differences, all three mainstream theories share a common conception of development as "catch-up." A second and even more important re…
Progressive capitalism, crisis, and class struggle
Despite the recent upsurge of global economic instability and anti-capitalist protest, many left economists and progressive policy programs continue to draw their main inspiration from the purported equity and efficiency of particular varieties of capitalism. This tendency derives its legitimacy in large part from 'progressive competitiveness' interpretations of the postwar Japanese experience. Unfortunately, these interpretations and the politic…
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