Michael Roberts

Biographic Data

ID3621733
NAMEMichael Roberts
GIVEN NAMESMichael
FAMILY NAMERoberts
SIGNATUREROBERTS M
AFFILIATIONSRhodes University
ORCID0000-0002-0929-3044
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS158
TOTAL CITATIONS206
AUTHOR COUNT158
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1931
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX8

  • Le taux de profit mondial: Des preuves nouvelles

    Open AccessMichael Roberts, David BuxtonARTICLEVariations2025

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  • International experience, growth opportunities, and repatriate job satisfaction

    Open AccessMichael Roberts, Etayankara Muralidharan et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of Administrative…2025

    Multinational Enterprises expect to retain repatriates (i.e., returning employees from international assignments) and to gain from the new knowledge and experience they bring back from international assignments. Drawing insights from social exchange theory and using the perspective of psychological contracts, our study findings demonstrate that repatriate perception of recognition of foreign experience influences their job satisfaction, and this …

  • The Rebellious Role of Peasants in European History

    Michael RobertsARTICLEReview of Agrarian Studies2025

  • Secular stagnation or long depression

    Michael RobertsARTICLEThe Japanese Political Economy2025

  • Understanding the rise of the far right through Marxist Economics. Interview with Michael Roberts

    Open AccessGustavo Durán, Paula Vidal Molina et al.ARTICLEPropuestas Críticas en Trabajo…2024

    Michael Roberts worked as an economist in the City (1] of London for over 40 years. He has closely observed the machinations of global capitalism from within the dragon’s den. At the same time, he was a political activist in the labour movement for decades. Since retiring, he has written several books. The Great Recession – a Marxist View (2009); The Long Depression (2016); Marx 200: A Review of Marx’s Economics (2018); and jointly with Guglielmo…

  • Not Whether to Coordinate, But How: Concerns and Mechanism Choice Under a Mandate for Inter-Agency Coordination

    Open AccessAnita Milman, Michael Roberts et al.ARTICLEPerspectives on Public Management…2024

    A critical question in relation to inter-agency coordination is not only whether, but how, to coordinate. This question is particularly salient when agencies are subject to a top-down mandate. While inter-agency coordination can provide multiple benefits, agencies frequently have concerns about the potential risks of coordination. Differing coordination mechanisms may reduce or exacerbate those concerns. Depending on their coordination concerns, …

  • The relationship between how agencies work together and coordinated outcomes: A Configurational Analysis

    Open AccessMichael Roberts, Anita MilmanARTICLEJournal of Public Administration…2024Cited by: 2References: 8

    Coordination mandates are used to steer collective action between local government agencies. When higher levels of government allow agencies to choose how to work together, the organizational forms and institutional arrangements they adopt likely influences their ability to achieve mandated coordinated outcomes. How group-level interactions influence achievement of coordinated outcomes is not well understood. California’s Sustainable Groundwater …

  • Advice to a Sister: Avitus on Chastity ( De Consolatoria Castitatis Laude )

    Open AccessMichael RobertsARTICLETraditio2023

    As a poet, Avitus of Vienne is best known for his biblical epic, De spiritalis historiae gestis , but he also wrote a poem of exhortation addressed to his sister, Fuscina, a dedicated virgin. That poem is given the title De virginitate in the influential MGH edition, following one group of manuscripts, but in a second group it is entitled De consolatoria castitatis laude , a title attested in a dedicatory letter Avitus wrote for the poem and adop…

  • Aronowitz, Stanley (1933–2021)

    Open AccessMichael J Roberts, Michael Roberts et al.OTHERThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2023

    As one of the most important activist intellectuals in America, Stanley Aronowitz made several important interventions in US sociology, including the introduction of critical theory to US sociology; the critique of orthodox Marxism and the reconstruction of historical materialism; a novel interpretation of the US labor movement past and present; a radical critique of conventional education; and an engagement with British cultural studies, psychoa…

  • Capitalism in the 21st Century: Through the Prism of Value

    Guglielmo Carchedi, Michael RobertsBOOKCapitalism in the 21st Century2022

  • The contradictions of 21st century capitalism

    Open AccessMichael Roberts, Michael S RobertsARTICLERevista de Estudios Globales.…2022

    In this article, Michael Roberts analyses the economic, environmental, and geopolitical contradictions inherent in the capitalist system from a historical and comparative perspective. According to the economist, the Long Depression in which the world economy has been submerged for decades may end up assuming various forms (recessions, technological revolution, changes in the economic cycle), or through political action that consciously replaces t…

  • Philip Hardie: Classicism and Christianity in Late Antique Latin Poetry

    Michael J Roberts, Michael RobertsARTICLEGnomon2021

    As a critical journal for all classical studies, the GNOMON fosters the links between the distinct classical disciplines. It has thus an exceptional position among the classical review journals and allows familiarization with research and publications in neighbouring disciplines. The reviews address an international readership from all fields in classical studies. The GNOMON publishes reviews in German, English, French, Italian and Latin

  • The Economics of Modern Imperialism

    Open AccessGuglielmo Carchedi, Michael RobertsARTICLEHistorical Materialism2021Cited by: 8References: 3

    This work focuses exclusively on the modern economic aspects of imperialism. We define it as a persistent and long-term net appropriation of surplus value by the high-technology imperialist countries from the low-technology dominated countries. This process is placed within the secular tendential fall in profitability, not only in the imperialist countries but also in the dominated ones. We identify four channels through which surplus value flows…

  • Marx on the Environment

    Michael RobertsARTICLEReview of Agrarian Studies2020

  • Marx’s law of value: A critique of David Harvey

    Open AccessMichael RobertsARTICLEHuman Geography2020Cited by: 1

    In 2018, Professor David Harvey, the human geographer and the eminent scholar of Marx’s works and their modern relevance, wrote a short paper entitled ‘Marx’s refusal of the labour theory of value’. In this paper, Harvey presents a series of theoretical confusions. The dual nature of value in a commodity is ignored by him. So Marx’s theory of crisis (based on insufficient surplus value) is replaced with insufficient use values for workers as cons…

  • Waves of simulation: Arguing authenticity in an era of surfing the hyperreal

    Open AccessMichael J Roberts, Michael Roberts et al.ARTICLEInternational Review for the…2020Cited by: 2References: 17

    This article is an examination of the impact of new, technologically sophisticated wave pools upon the culture of surfers. Appropriating the concepts of simulation from the work of postmodern theorist Jean Baudrillard, and mechanical reproduction from the critical theorist Walter Benjamin, we consider how the spectre of perfectly simulated waves in controlled environments has signaled a new era in the history of the social construction and contes…

  • Modern Monetary Theory: A Marxist Critique

    Open AccessMichael RobertsARTICLEClass, Race and Corporate Power2019

    Compiled from a series of blog posts which can be found at "The Next Recession." Modern monetary theory (MMT) has become flavor of the time among many leftist economic views in recent years. MMT has some traction in the left as it appears to offer theoretical support for policies of fiscal spending funded by central bank money and running up budget deficits and public debt without fear of crises – and thus backing policies of government spending …

  • Owning Financialization

    Open AccessMichael Roberts, Michael S RobertsARTICLEMonthly Review2019

    In the Notes from the Editors of the January 2019 issue of Monthly Review, the editors commented on a blog post by Michael Roberts on the term financialization. In the first part of this short exchange Roberts questions whether financialization is a meaningful and useful term, or simply a distraction from a comprehensive critique contemporary capitalism

  • Monocausalidade e teoria da crise: Uma resposta a David Harvey

    Open AccessMichael RobertsARTICLEGeografares2019References: 2

    Michael Roberts oferece uma crítica abrangente a Harvey e argumenta que Marx nunca abandonou a lei da queda tendencial da taxa de lucro como uma explicação relevante para as crises. Ele nunca voltou à teoria simplesmente porque estava satisfeito com ela. Ao invés de desenvolver a teoria, tentou descobrir como usá-la para explicar a natureza cíclica do capitalismo bem como sua natureza transitória. Roberts defende que os pressupostos da lei são re…

  • The Influence of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Late Antiquity: Phaethon and the Palace of the Sun

    Michael RobertsCHAPTEROvid in Late Antiquity2018

    This paper studies the presence of Ovid’s account of the fall of Phaethon in the poets and panegyrists of late antiquity. In the first part I review explicit references to the story, which typically adopt the political interpretation already prevalent in the classical period, and cite a number of texts that echo the language or distinctive features of Ovid’s account. In the second part I concentrate on Ovid’s descriptions of the palace, court, an…

  • Lactantius’s Phoenix and Late Latin Poetics

    Michael J Roberts, Michael RobertsCHAPTERThe Poetics of Late Latin…2017

    This chapter discusses the poem De aue phoenice of L. Cae(ci)lius Firmianus Lactantius and demonstrates how it foreshadows many of the features of subsequent late Latin poetry: generic indeterminacy, an increased emphasis on description at the expense of narrative, and the prominence of ceremony. In particular, despite the absence of overt Christian references, its treatment of the bird’s liturgical service to the sun carries a metapoetic signifi…

  • Monocausality and crisis theory: A reply to David Harvey

    Michael RobertsCHAPTERGreat Financial Meltdown2016

  • War Magic: Religion, Sorcery, and Performance

    Margaret Chan, Jean-Marc De Grave et al.BOOKWar Magic2016

  • It's A Depression

    Open AccessM Catherine Roberts, Michael RobertsARTICLEScience & Society2016

  • Thomas Piketty and the Search for r

    Michael RobertsARTICLEHistorical Materialism2015Cited by: 2References: 2

    Thomas Piketty’s magnum opus on the accumulation and distribution of wealth over the last 200 years has been greeted with the biggest noise from mainstream (and heterodox) economics of any economics book. Piketty shows that inequality of wealth and income is inherent to capitalism and it is getting worse. The reason for the rise in the inequality of wealth is a rise of income going to capital in the form of profits, rent and interest. Inequality …