From Monthly Review, John Bellamy Foster, Robert W. McChesney and R. Jamil Jonna on Monopoly and Competition in Twenty-First Century Capitalism (and more on the laws of capitalism). An interview with Peter Diamond on the job crisis, the deficit and what Congress and the Fed can do. A review of Get Up, Stand Up: Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite by Bruce E. Levine. A review of Toward a Truly Free Market: A Distributist Perspective on the Role of Government, Taxes, Health Care, Deficits, and More by John C. Medaille. A world awash in debt: We've seen debt before, but not like this — here's why major economies are drowning in red ink. Prosperity without growth is possible and inevitable: An interview with Tim Jackson. William Galston on four actions the global community must take to avoid another depression. A review of The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor by Steve Early (and more and more). Tim Durham, the Madoff of the Midwest: The leveraged buyout CEO, perhaps in an epic midlife crisis, may have crafted a Ponzi scheme even more complicated than Madoff’s. A review of Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us by John Quiggin. Here is Joseph Stiglitz’s simple, 4-step plan to solving America’s debt crisis. Warren Buffet on coddling the super-rich: We mega-rich should not continue to get extraordinary tax breaks while most Americans struggle to make ends meet (and more). From This, an interview with zero-growth economist Peter Victor. Steven Pearlstein on why the blame for the financial mess starts with the corporate lobby. A review of Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World by William D. Cohan. A book salon on Reviving the Strike: How Working People Can Regain Power and Transform America by Joe Burns.
