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From its birth as a nation until now the USA has been busy building what became the most far-reaching empire in history. By hook or by crook. The USA has always taken it for granted that grabbing what we want is our right, our historic duty, a gift to those we conquer; no matter where, when, or how: If the land of the free and home of the brave does it, that makes it OK. But now the U.S. empire is on the decline. And look who's on the ascent! |
2007 |
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Book review and commentary on two books: 1) China’s New Order: Society, Politics, and Economy in Transition, by Wang Hui. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2003. Hardcover $22.95. 256 pages. (Edited by Theodore Huters); 2) One China, Many Paths. Chaohua Wang, Editor. Verso. Paperback $36. 368 pages. |
2005.11.09 |
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| The United States Becomes Its Own Worst Enemy | A comparison of the current degenerate state of the U.S.A. and "The New South," a seldom-discussed "toxic brew of institutionalized cruelty and systemic irrationalities, fueled by fear, greed, and hatred." The New South itself was the result of the little-known Compromise of 1877, whereby presidential candidate Tilden, who had a quarter million plurality, was denied the office through tawdry and dubious machinations centering around Florida. (Sound familiar?) This article also lists nine "worrisome tendencies over which the U.S.A. presides." |
2005.08.20 |
| La guerra infinita | Una intervista fatto a Doug Dowd di Luca Molinari, Il Domani, Bologna, Italia |
2004.11.24 |
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Globalization: The Ideology and Self-Destructive Tendencies of Capitalism, Past and Present |
A talk delivered at the American Sociological Association conference in San Francisco |
2004.08.15 |
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A review of Larry Everest, Oil, Power and Empire: Iraq and The U.S. Global Agenda (Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 2004), 391 pages, paper $19.95. |
2004 |
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This is no time for venting our spleen. It is very much the time to preserve what Howard Zinn has recently seen as “a ledge” from which we can hold on and climb toward what we need and want. That ledge will be cheerfully obliterated by a Second Bush II Administration. I am firm in the belief that all who seek a sane and decent and peaceful world must vote for Kerry. |
2004 |
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A review by Doug Dowd of Michael Meeropols's Surrender: How the Clinton Administration Completed the Reagan Revolution |
Doug Dowd's review of Michael Meeropol's book analyzing the major economic problems and controversies since the 1970s; published in the Review of Radical Political Economics |
2003 |
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This is the most dangerous time in USA history since Doug was born in 1919. Things get scarier every day. Yet there is reason for hope. But we have to (1) learn from the past and (2) we have to work exceptionally hard. The likely alternative is a kind of fascism USA-style (or "friendly fascism"). We're heading that way, and we'd better try to stop the momentum. |
2002.12 |
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Capitalism: To the Trash Heap of History, by Troy Skeels |
Capitalism depends on exploitation. The cheap raw materials are now just about all gone; there's nowhere for the system to turn. Let's turn it off. "What we really need is true free enterprise....The most secure investment for the future is the one that sustains a community that you are part of." |
2002.07 |
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Karl Marx: The Needs of Capital vs. the Needs of Human Beings, by Michel A. Lebowitz |
A chapter from the forthcoming Understanding Capitalism, Doug Dowd, Ed., London: 2002, Pluto Press |
2002.07 |
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Fascism is a response to capitalism in crisis. Contemporary capitalism is lurching toward another crisis. The political processes of contemporary Italy are, like those of the USA, only superfically democratic. Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian PM since May 2001 (and for a time also his own foreign minister) looks and acts like Benito Mussolini, another Italian PM who was also his own foreign minister. In Italy and the USA, the future looks grim, indeed. Unless we do our work. |
2002 |
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Market Mystification: The Mechanism Laid Bare, by Bertell Ollman |
People’s daily experiences as buyers and sellers in the market are the chief cause of capitalist ideology. Besides giving them/us a distorted view of social relations, nature, human nature, money, freedom and equality, it mystifies the whole sphere of production, which in terms of its extended effects may be the most harmful mystification of all. |
2002 |
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Return of the Iron Triangle, by James M. Cypher |
Military spending must go up, say the members of the Iron Triangle. The sides of the triangle are the decision makers of the U.S. military: (1) the “civilian agencies” (NSA, CIA, NSC, Office of POTUS), (2) the military brass, and (3) the 85,000 private military contractors. With the current administration, there will, of course, be money abounding, but how will the spoils be divided up? (From Dollars and Sense) |
2002.02 |
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The ideology of globalization as that of capitalism writ large and, necessarily, writ always larger |
A talk delivered to the conference entitled Reflections on the Social Impact of American Multinational Corporations, in Grenoble, France, January 2002 |
2002.01 |
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Bankers and Globalization, Past and Present: From Pinstriped Conservatism to 7/24 Speculation |
A talk delivered to the conference entitled Reflections on the Social Impact of American Multinational Corporations, in Grenoble, France, January 2002 |
2002.01 |
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The Marxian analytical framework remains essential for the understanding of contemporary capitalism; however, given the enormous changes since his time, its constituent elements are not only in need of “updating,” but the relationships between them require important shifts in emphasis. This is a talk delivered to the annual conference of the Union for Radical Political Economics, August 2001, to be published in a forthcoming issue of the Review of Radical Political Economics. |
2001 |
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A review of Hugh Stretton's excellent new economics textbook |
2001 |
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NAFTA's Lessons: From Economic Mythology to Current Realities, by James M. Cypher |
An analysis of the effects of NAFTA upon Mexico, the United States, and the workers of both countries; from Labor Studies Journal |
Spring 2001 |
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What Is Political Science? What Should It Be?, by Bertell Ollman |
This paper examines the five myths that govern political science: that it studies politics; that it is scientific; that one can study politics cut off from the other social sciences and history; that the State is neutral; and that the bulk of the work in the discipline furthers the cause of democracy. |
2000 |
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The virtues of their defects and the defects of their virtues |
Reflections on John Kenneth Galbraith and Thorstein Veblen, from Michael Keaney (ed.), Economics with a Public Purpose: Essays in Honour of John Kenneth Galbraith (Routledge, 2000). The book title notwithstanding, this essay is critical of Galbraith. |
2000 |
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Lectures Notes from the Econ Y2K 1999 classes |
2000 |
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This paper was given as the keynote address for the 32nd Annual Pacific Northwest Labor History Assn Conference, Tacoma, Wash. |
2000.05 |
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The notion of today’s widely-touted “new economy” are addressed by comparing and contrasting its key elements with what was called “the new era” of the 1920s—under the headings Then and Now. |
2000.03 |
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Although the case is uniquely Italian, it recalls sordid episodes from our own history, mixing elements from the trials and tribulations of Sacco and Vanzetti in the 1920s, Hiss in the 1950s, and the Black Panthers (inter alia) in the 1960s. And, as a Guardian (of London) writer has suggested, the Sofri case could be following a script written by Lewis Carroll, except that the madness in Alice was stirred with whims. There is nothing to smile about here. |
1999.12 |
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A primer on the form of social organization known as capitalism |
1999 |
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The Radical Political Economics of Douglas F. Dowd, by Michael Keaney |
An explication and analysis of the views of Doug Dowd, by Michael Keaney, Glasgow Caledonian University; this paper was presented at the Post Keynesian Economics Study Group Microeconomics Seminar, Glasgow Caledonian University. |
1998.10 |
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A review in Monthly Review of Wall Street: How It Works and Ffor Whom, by Doug Henwood (editor of the wonderful Left Business Observer) |
1997.10 |
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Article from the Journal of Economic Issues; Brady was an economics professor at Berkeley |
1994.12 |
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A review of Beyond Hypocrisy: Decoding the News in an Age of Propaganda (including the Doublespeak Dictionary), by Edward S. Herman, illustrated by Matt Wuerker |
1992 |
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A synoptic view of “what has been done to the consciousness and the character of our population by the decades of economic militarization.” |
1982 |
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An article from Monthly Review |
1982.04 |
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A review of in the Monthly Review of Friendly Fascism, by Bertram Gross. This article is relevant in the year 2002. |
1981.06 |
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The preliminary stages of an effort to improve our understanding of an abiding question of both analytical and political importance: what causes social consciousness to be what it is and what it becomes in the social process? |
1978 |
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Stagflation and the Political Economy of Decadent Monopoly Capitalism |
An explanation of the seemingly paradoxical simultanaeity of inflation and stgnation. This paper was presented at the meetings of the Western Economic Association, June 26, 1976, San Francisco, and was first published in Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Economiche e Commerciali (Milan). It later appeared in Monthly Review. |
1976 |
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Social Commitment and Social Analysis: The Contribution of Paul Baran |
A talk given at Stanford University for the symposium “The Political Economy of Growth: A Belated Tribute to Paul Baran and His Work” |
1974 |
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New York Times op-ed piece |
1971 |
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From the editor's note in the original publication (H. M. Wachtel in URPE Occasional Paper No. 4): “This paper is designed as an introduction to economic history and will be especially useful for individuals without substantial knowledge of economic history. Its purpose is to invite further study of questions raised rather than to settle those questions for all time.” |
1971 |
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On The Economic History of the United States in the Twentieth Century |
This examination (a critique, really) of the economic history of the USA was one-half of the first edition of the Occasional Papers of the Union for Radical Political Economics. |
1969 |
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An examination of the advisability and morality of civil disobedience in the USA |
1968 |
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Ruminations on the 1968 police riot in Chicago |
1968 |
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What happened in Chicago in 1968 can be laid at the feet of LBJ, HHH, all the rest. This analysis seems uncannily appropriate as we approach yet another season of national party conventions. |
1968 |
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A bittersweet piece that originally appeared in The Nation and was reprinted in Dialogue (a Cornell student mag “of the arts and politics”). What to do about the increasing divergence between the myth of America and the reality of the United States? Let us harbor no illusions; let us organize! |
1967 |
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Article from Dissent |
1964 |
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