Tag Archives: Marxism
Bruce McFarlane (1936-2022)
Sadly, former JCA editor Bruce McFarlane has passed away. He died on December 11 in Christchurch, New Zealand. While he had suffered strokes and had been in poor health for some time, Bruce remained a diligent correspondent. Not that long … Continue reading
Sekine’s Dialectic of Capital
JCA co-editor Richard Westra of the Institute of Political Science at the University of Opole in Poland has a new review article titled “Rescuing Marx from a Ship of Fools” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2022.2123843). The review article assesses Thomas Sekine’s two-volume The … Continue reading
Economics, Science and Capitalism
JCA editorial board member Richard Westra has a new book out. Economics, Science and Capitalism is published by Routledge. The linked website includes a preview PDF. The abstract for the states: Various strains of heterodox economics have sought, and largely … Continue reading
Wages of Burman-ness: Contradictions of Privilege in Myanmar
“Revisiting the Wages of Burman-ness: Contradictions of Privilege in Myanmar” (DOI: 10.1080/00472336.2021. 1962390) is a new article by Stephen Campbell of the School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Elliott Prasse-Freeman of the Department of Sociology, National University … Continue reading
Issue 2 for 2021 published
Issue number 2 of Volume 51 of the journal has gone to print and is available electronically at the publisher’s site. This issue has a Feature Section on the Political Economy of Southeast Asia, a tribute to Bruce McFarlane and … Continue reading
A Tribute to Bruce McFarlane
Bruce McFarlane was a member of the editorial board and a co-editor of the Journal of Contemporary Asia from 1970 to 2005. His articles for JCA are currently available for free download. In the spirit of the journal’s 50th anniversary … Continue reading
Interview with Richard Westra
Co-editor Richard Westra is interviewed at Phenomenal World under the title “Banks, Bubbles, Profits.” Phenomenal World is a publication managed by staff of the Jain Family Institute, focused on theory and commentary across the social sciences. The interview discusses “financial … Continue reading
Critical Realism and Marxism
Richard Westra is a co-editor of JCA and with the Institute for Political Science, University of Opole in Poland. His latest blog post, drawing on his “Roy Bhaskar’s Critical Realism and the Social Science of Marxian Economics,”Review of Radical Political … Continue reading
Issue 2 for 2020 published
Issue number 2 of Volume 50 of the journal has gone to print and is available electronically at the publisher’s site. This issue is the second of the Journal’s 50th year anniversary and the first of three special issues due … Continue reading
East Asia in the Global Economy
The sixth article for a forthcoming Special Issue on Marxism in Asia, guest edited by Richard Westra has been published. As the Introduction for the Special Issue, “East Asia in the Global Economy: Theoretical and Empirical Questions for Marxism” (DOI: … Continue reading
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