Arthur Macewan
Biographic Data
| ID | 284302 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arthur Macewan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arthur |
| FAMILY NAME | Macewan |
| SIGNATURE | MACEWAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The U.S. Economy
The Neoliberal Disorder
(2001). The Neoliberal Disorder: The Inconsistencies Of Trade Policy. NACLA Report on the Americas: Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 27-33
Globalization and Progressive Economic Policy
The authors of this book challenge mainstream thinking about the nature of globalization. While not hostile to markets per se, they believe that capitalist market processes, left to operate freely, tend to generate injustice, insecurity, instability, and inefficiency. Taking account of the new realities of globalization, this volume explores an unusually wide range of subjects, including trade integration, multinational corporations, labor market…
Technological Options and Free Trade Agreements
A country's technological development takes place through a complex of economic, social and political arrangements — through a particular “social structure of accumulation.” Unregulated international commerce ("free trade") tends to undermine this complex of arrangements in ways that harm technological advance and, hence, long-run economic development. This process operates, though in different ways, in both the advanced and poorer partners in an…
Power Concedes Nothing Without A Demand
Review of Along Freedom Road: Hyde County, North Carolina and the Fate of the Black Schools in the South by David S. Cecelski.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
Notes on U.S. Foreign Investment and Latin America
Capitalist firms invest outside their own countries for the same reasons that they invest at home—to obtain profits. Nonetheless, not all investments are the same. There are different ways that firms make their profits, different types of investments, focusing on different sorts of activities and having different sorts of long-run implications. The purpose of these notes is to examine some of the aggregate trends in U.S. foreign investment—change…
Globalization and Stagnation
It is relatively clear that globalization, the international spread of capitalist exchange and production relationships, is a very destructive and painful process. The implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) will provide some very stark examples over the next several years. In Mexico, peasants are likely to suffer final extinction as a class, as they are driven off the land by competition from large-scale U.S. grain prod…
Alternatives to Free Trade
Not long ago, a correspondent on the Progressive Economists' Network, an electronic mail network in which I participate, posed the question: What is the alternative to free trade? The correspondent was Canadian and he wanted to challenge his government's free trade policies. He recognized that you cannot beat something, no matter how bad it is, with nothing.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles a…
Why the Emperor Can't Afford New Clothes
This past year, one of my daughters was a member of the swim team at our local public high school. When I went to watch a meet, however, I had trouble telling which team was winning which race because not all the members of my daughter's team wore the same kind of swimsuit. There were, I learned later, insufficient funds in the school budget to provide the girls' swim team with a full set of suits.This article can also be found at the Monthly Rev…
Banishing the Mexican Revolution
Review of Distorted Development: Mexico in the World Economy by David Barkin; State and Capital in Mexico: Development Policy Since 1940 by James M. Cypher.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 State of the States
Our first purpose is to tell the story of the development of the fiscal crisis of the states and to examine why it has taken on a new economic and political importance. Then, on the basis of that analysis, we argue that progressive forces have an opportunity now to affect both immediate responses to the crisis and the longer run economic role of government. Our examination of the fiscal crisis of the states leads to some particular proposals for …
International Trade and Economic Instability
In the last few years, the United States has developed a foreign-trade deficit of unprecedented magnitude, and, closely associated with the trade deficit, has become a huge international debtor. In Washington and on Wall Street, these developments are viewed as serious problems, representing both long-term weakness and current instability in the U.S. economy. Moreover, these international economic problems have presented workers in some industrie…
Aids, Capitalism and Technology
Charles W. Hunt's "AIDS and Capitalist Medicine" (MR, January 1988), while a useful beginning, raises a number of critical issues to which we would like to reply.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
Transitions from Authoritarian Rule
The Money Mandarins
Review of The Money Mandarins: The Making of a Supranational Economic Order by Howard M. Wachtel.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
International Debt and Banking
Latin America
Why do the governments of debtor nations generally continue to meet their payment schedules with the banks? Why do the people of the debtor nations accept the austerity programs imposed upon them so that the debts can be paid?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 International Debt Crisis and the U.S. Left
The international debt issue continues to wax and wane on the pages of the U.S. press, but it is certainly a continual and pressing reality in much of the third world. Moreover, its impact on the U.S. economy and, indeed, on the entire international economy is also no passing matter.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…
Unstable Empire
This article argues that the international operations of US business constitute an unstable empire. In developing this argument, the article examines three aspects of US?based international business activity: the focus of US business operations abroad on the penetration and control of markets; the extremely large and rapid growth of US?based international banking; and the increasing strains on the organisational structures of multinational firms.…
The Current Crisis in Latin America and the International Economy
An economic crisis is a period of change, a historical turning point. The old institutions that gave structure to economic relations can no longer function, severe disruptions of production and exchange occur, and social conflicts become intense. In such circumstances, there are ever-present dangers of political reaction and retrogression, but there are also opportunities for progressive change. In the underdeveloped world—plagued as it is by ins…
New Light on Dependency and Dependant Development
In stressing the way imperialism has perverted economic life in the poor parts of the world, Marxists have often argued that economic development would not take place in the capitalist periphery. Paul Baran, in laying the foundations for much modern Marxist analysis of development and underdevelopment, pointed out that imperialism created a class structure which blocked the development process in the periphery. He argued that the domination of so…
Revolution and Economic Development in Cuba
"Concerning "Alternative Development Strategies
Naved Hamid's article about Pakistan ("Alternative Development Strategies") which appeared in the October 1974 issue of MRwas a useful review of events leading up to that country's recent crisis.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
Ideology, Socialist Development, and Power in Cuba
On the Transition to Socialism
Review of On the Transition to Socialism by Paul M. Sweezy and Charles Bettelheim.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
Globalization and Stagnation
It is relatively clear that globalization, the international spread of capitalist exchange and production relationships, is a very destructive and painful process. The implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) will provide some very stark examples over the next several years. In Mexico, peasants are likely to suffer final extinction as a class, as they are driven off the land by competition from large-scale U.S. grain prod…
Transitions from Authoritarian Rule
Notes on U.S. Foreign Investment and Latin America
Capitalist firms invest outside their own countries for the same reasons that they invest at home—to obtain profits. Nonetheless, not all investments are the same. There are different ways that firms make their profits, different types of investments, focusing on different sorts of activities and having different sorts of long-run implications. The purpose of these notes is to examine some of the aggregate trends in U.S. foreign investment—change…
Why the Emperor Can't Afford New Clothes
This past year, one of my daughters was a member of the swim team at our local public high school. When I went to watch a meet, however, I had trouble telling which team was winning which race because not all the members of my daughter's team wore the same kind of swimsuit. There were, I learned later, insufficient funds in the school budget to provide the girls' swim team with a full set of suits.This article can also be found at the Monthly Rev…
Latin America
Why do the governments of debtor nations generally continue to meet their payment schedules with the banks? Why do the people of the debtor nations accept the austerity programs imposed upon them so that the debts can be paid?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 State of the States
Our first purpose is to tell the story of the development of the fiscal crisis of the states and to examine why it has taken on a new economic and political importance. Then, on the basis of that analysis, we argue that progressive forces have an opportunity now to affect both immediate responses to the crisis and the longer run economic role of government. Our examination of the fiscal crisis of the states leads to some particular proposals for …
The Current Crisis in Latin America and the International Economy
An economic crisis is a period of change, a historical turning point. The old institutions that gave structure to economic relations can no longer function, severe disruptions of production and exchange occur, and social conflicts become intense. In such circumstances, there are ever-present dangers of political reaction and retrogression, but there are also opportunities for progressive change. In the underdeveloped world—plagued as it is by ins…
New Light on Dependency and Dependant Development
In stressing the way imperialism has perverted economic life in the poor parts of the world, Marxists have often argued that economic development would not take place in the capitalist periphery. Paul Baran, in laying the foundations for much modern Marxist analysis of development and underdevelopment, pointed out that imperialism created a class structure which blocked the development process in the periphery. He argued that the domination of so…
Energy and Power
A recent TV commercial has a little girl tell us how important it is to save energy. The message is clear: her future depends on our frugality. The sponsor is Texaco. In another ad, a woman at the blackboard shows housewives that by thinking ahead they can do their errands in a single trip and save gas. The ad is sponsored by Exxon—Exxon cares. Still another ad has a man from the electric company explain that running your dishwasher only half ful…
Contradictions of Capitalist Development in Pakistan
Contradictions of Capitalist Development
Capitalist Expansion, Ideology and Intervention
Development Alternatives in Pakistan
Imperialism and Revolution in South Asia
On the Transition to Socialism
Review of On the Transition to Socialism by Paul M. Sweezy and Charles Bettelheim.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
Energy and Power
A recent TV commercial has a little girl tell us how important it is to save energy. The message is clear: her future depends on our frugality. The sponsor is Texaco. In another ad, a woman at the blackboard shows housewives that by thinking ahead they can do their errands in a single trip and save gas. The ad is sponsored by Exxon—Exxon cares. Still another ad has a man from the electric company explain that running your dishwasher only half ful…
"Concerning "Alternative Development Strategies
Naved Hamid's article about Pakistan ("Alternative Development Strategies") which appeared in the October 1974 issue of MRwas a useful review of events leading up to that country's recent crisis.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
Ideology, Socialist Development, and Power in Cuba
Revolution and Economic Development in Cuba
New Light on Dependency and Dependant Development
In stressing the way imperialism has perverted economic life in the poor parts of the world, Marxists have often argued that economic development would not take place in the capitalist periphery. Paul Baran, in laying the foundations for much modern Marxist analysis of development and underdevelopment, pointed out that imperialism created a class structure which blocked the development process in the periphery. He argued that the domination of so…
Unstable Empire
This article argues that the international operations of US business constitute an unstable empire. In developing this argument, the article examines three aspects of US?based international business activity: the focus of US business operations abroad on the penetration and control of markets; the extremely large and rapid growth of US?based international banking; and the increasing strains on the organisational structures of multinational firms.…
The Current Crisis in Latin America and the International Economy
An economic crisis is a period of change, a historical turning point. The old institutions that gave structure to economic relations can no longer function, severe disruptions of production and exchange occur, and social conflicts become intense. In such circumstances, there are ever-present dangers of political reaction and retrogression, but there are also opportunities for progressive change. In the underdeveloped world—plagued as it is by ins…
International Debt and Banking
Latin America
Why do the governments of debtor nations generally continue to meet their payment schedules with the banks? Why do the people of the debtor nations accept the austerity programs imposed upon them so that the debts can be paid?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 International Debt Crisis and the U.S. Left
The international debt issue continues to wax and wane on the pages of the U.S. press, but it is certainly a continual and pressing reality in much of the third world. Moreover, its impact on the U.S. economy and, indeed, on the entire international economy is also no passing matter.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 Money Mandarins
Review of The Money Mandarins: The Making of a Supranational Economic Order by Howard M. Wachtel.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
Aids, Capitalism and Technology
Charles W. Hunt's "AIDS and Capitalist Medicine" (MR, January 1988), while a useful beginning, raises a number of critical issues to which we would like to reply.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
Transitions from Authoritarian Rule
International Trade and Economic Instability
In the last few years, the United States has developed a foreign-trade deficit of unprecedented magnitude, and, closely associated with the trade deficit, has become a huge international debtor. In Washington and on Wall Street, these developments are viewed as serious problems, representing both long-term weakness and current instability in the U.S. economy. Moreover, these international economic problems have presented workers in some industrie…
Why the Emperor Can't Afford New Clothes
This past year, one of my daughters was a member of the swim team at our local public high school. When I went to watch a meet, however, I had trouble telling which team was winning which race because not all the members of my daughter's team wore the same kind of swimsuit. There were, I learned later, insufficient funds in the school budget to provide the girls' swim team with a full set of suits.This article can also be found at the Monthly Rev…
Banishing the Mexican Revolution
Review of Distorted Development: Mexico in the World Economy by David Barkin; State and Capital in Mexico: Development Policy Since 1940 by James M. Cypher.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 State of the States
Our first purpose is to tell the story of the development of the fiscal crisis of the states and to examine why it has taken on a new economic and political importance. Then, on the basis of that analysis, we argue that progressive forces have an opportunity now to affect both immediate responses to the crisis and the longer run economic role of government. Our examination of the fiscal crisis of the states leads to some particular proposals for …
Alternatives to Free Trade
Not long ago, a correspondent on the Progressive Economists' Network, an electronic mail network in which I participate, posed the question: What is the alternative to free trade? The correspondent was Canadian and he wanted to challenge his government's free trade policies. He recognized that you cannot beat something, no matter how bad it is, with nothing.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles a…
Notes on U.S. Foreign Investment and Latin America
Capitalist firms invest outside their own countries for the same reasons that they invest at home—to obtain profits. Nonetheless, not all investments are the same. There are different ways that firms make their profits, different types of investments, focusing on different sorts of activities and having different sorts of long-run implications. The purpose of these notes is to examine some of the aggregate trends in U.S. foreign investment—change…
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