E. Ahmet Tonak teaches political economy at Smith College and is the author, with Sungur Savran, of In the Tracks of Marx’s Capital: Debates in Marxian Political Economy and Lessons for 21st Century Capitalism.
Katharina Pistor argues that capitalism is a legal regime we can transform by rewiring private law. But a reform program that ignores the wage relation and the exploitation of labor will leave the core of capitalism untouched.
Economist Anwar Shaikh, who died this month, spent half a century turning Marx’s categories into hard numbers. His first teaching assistant and longtime collaborator remembers the man and the work.