Book Reviews
While our journal no longer carries a reviews section, and shorter reviews are now featured on our website, Historical Materialism welcomes articles addressing key contemporary interventions in critical Marxist theory or literature reviews that seek to provide critical surveys of contemporary debates. The word length and criteria for these articles, including the peer-review process, are the same as for other submissions to the journal.
If you are interested in writing articles that critically address recent volumes in critical Marxist theory or critical literature reviews please contact the editorial board in advance with information about the volume(s) under consideration and a short abstract (250 words) outlining your argument.
If you are interested in submitting a shorter review, about a recent Marxist publication to the website, please send us your submission directly to website@historicalmaterialism.org.
The Long Depression
Michael Roberts is a private researcher who has worked as an economist in the City of London for over 30 years. He is the author of The Great Recession – a Marxist View (2009, Lulu Press) and The Long Depression (2016, Haymarket Publications). He has presented papers to the American Economics Association annual conferences, Historical Materialism conferences and to those of the International Initiative for the Promotion of Political Economy (IIPPE) and the Association of Heterodox Economists (AHE). He writes a blog on Marxist economics at thenextrecession.wordpress.com.
The Eastern Origins of Capitalism?
A review of Alex Anievas and Kerem Nişancıoğlu’s How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism (Pluto, 2015)
There is No True Life, If Not in the False One: On Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels
Sara R Farris on Elena Ferrante.
Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy
Kevin Murphy reviews Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy by Thomas Twiss
Financial Claims on the World Economy
Tony Norfield reviews François Chesnais’s Finance Capital Today: Corporations and Banks in the Lasting Global Slump, Brill, Leiden, 2016.
Globalizing the History of Capital: Ways Forward
The following article by Jairus Banaji is part of a forthcoming symposium on Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nisancioglu’s How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism (Pluto, 2015) to be published in Historical Materialism. Anievas and Nisancioglu’s work has been recently awarded the International Political Economy Working Group Book Prize of 2016 (British International Studies Association) and International Political Sociology Best Book Prize of 2017 (International Studies Association). If you enjoy Banaji’s piece, please do make sure to check out the entire symposium once it’s out in print.
