Themis Anthrakidis
is a PhD student at the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki. He received a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki, Greece and a Bachelor’s degree in Laws from the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. Currently, he works as a Special Adviser in the sector of Economics and Administration for the Mayor of the Municipality of Pilea-Hortiatis in Panorama, Thessaloniki, Greece. His research interest is in Political Economy, Comparative Political Economy, Economic and Financial Crises and Institutional Economics.
Anjan Chakrabarti
is Professor of Economics, University of Calcutta. His research interest spans the areas of Political Economy, Development Economics and Political Philosophy. His last book is The Indian Economy in Transition: Globalization, Capitalism and Development from Cambridge University Press (2016). He has also recently co-edited two books ‘Capital’ in the East: Reflections on Marx from Springer Nature (2019) and Marx, Marxism and the Spiritual from Routledge (2020).
Raju J. Das
is a Professor at York University, Toronto. His teaching and research interests are in political economy, class theory, the capitalist state, and international development. His recent books include Marxist Class Theory for a Skeptical World, and Marx’s Capital, Capitalism, and Limits to the State: Theoretical Considerations (Taylor & Francis). He is associated with a number of scholarly journals: Dialectical Anthropology; Race, Class and Corporate Power; Critical Sociology; Human Geography; and Science and Society.
Aram Eisenschitz
is a Senior Lecturer in the Business School, Middlesex University, London. He has written on urban planning, place marketing, and tourism. He has collaborated with Jamie Gough on radical perspectives on urban renewal and regeneration, poverty and social exclusion, state theory, and the social economy. He and Jamie are co-authors of The Politics of Local Economic Policy (Macmillan, 1993) and Spaces of Social Exclusion (Routledge, 2006).
was a lecturer in human geography and urban studies before his escape into retirement. He has written, using Marxist theory, on the labour process in its spatial and temporal contexts, local and regional economic policy, poverty and social exclusion, the contradictions of the capitalist state, and the theorisation of social space. He has contributed to debates on neoliberalism and regulation theory. Recently he has written on Brexit and British politics: Gough, J. (2020) Why Labour lost the British 2019 election: social democracy versus neoliberalism and the Far Right, Class, Race and Corporate Power, 18 (2) Article 2; Gough, J. and Kirby, J. (2021) How neoliberal populists serve capital: the business interests behind Brexit, York Left Consortium. Publications and blog: jamiegough.info.
Thaddeus Hwong
is an Associate Professor cross-appointed to the School of Public Policy and Administration and the School of Administrative Studies at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies at York University in Canada. His academic interests anchor on redistribution. His quick takes on pressing public policy issues using America as a probe are updated almost daily at
Macayla Kisten
is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Geography, University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa.
Brij Maharaj
is a Senior Professor of Geography at the University of Kwazulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa. He is a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa and a former president of the Society for South African Geographers. Brij Maharaj has received widespread recognition for his research on urban politics, segregation, local economic development, xenophobia and human rights, migration and diasporas, religion, philanthropy and development. He has published over 150 scholarly papers in renowned academic journals such as Urban Studies, International Journal of Urban and Regional Studies, Antipode, Polity and Space, Migration and Development, and Local Economy. He has to his credit five co-edited book collections.
John Marangos
is a Professor of Comparative Economic Systems at the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies of the University of Macedonia. The focal points of
Mizhar Mikati
holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Geography, York University. He is currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography and Environment at Brandon University. His research interests are in the political economy of food production and accessibility, and social and environmental theory.
Marcelo Milan
graduated in economics at the University of São Paulo, Brazil (1998), where he received his Master of Arts degree in economics (2002). He holds a Ph.D in Economics from University of Massachusetts Amherst (2008). He taught economics at the Universities of Rhode Island (2007) and Wisconsin Parkside (2008–2011). He is currently Associate Professor of Economics and International Relations at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. He teaches economic theory and cultural economics at the undergraduate level and International Political Economy at the post-graduate level. His research interests include the Brazilian Economy, International Political Economy, Marxian Economics, Cultural Economics and Macroeconomics.
Deepak K. Mishra
is a Professor of Economics at the Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi. His work focuses on the political economy of agrarian change, rural development, and labour migration in India. He has done extensive field research from a political economy perspective in eastern and north-eastern India. He has co-authored The Unfolding Crisis in Assam’s Tea Plantations: Employment and Occupational Mobility (Routledge, 2012). He has edited/co-edited Internal Migration in Contemporary India (Sage, 2016), Rethinking Economic Development in Northeast India: The Emerging Dynamics (Routledge, 2017) and Land and Livelihoods in Neoliberal India (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2020).
Tarique Niazi
is a Professor of Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, wi. He teaches courses in Environmental Sociology, Social Change,
Steven Pressman
is Emeritus Professor of Economics and Finance at Monmouth University and Associate Editor of the Review of Political Economy. He has published more than 190 articles in refereed journals and as book chapters, and has authored or edited 18 books, including Understanding Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century (Routledge, 2015), A New Guide to Post Keynesian Economics (Routledge, 2001), Alternative Theories of the State (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), and 50 Major Economists (Routledge, 2013). He is also a frequent contributor to newspapers and popular periodicals such as Challenge Magazine, The Washington Spectator and Dollars and Sense.
Michael Roberts
is a professional economist working in the financial sector. He is author of several books, including: The Great Recession: a Marxist view (2009), The Long Depression (2016) and Marx 200 (2018). He is the co-editor of World in Crisis (2018). He regularly blogs at: thenextrecession.wordpress.com.
David Michael M. San Juan
is a Full Professor at the Department of Filipino/Philippine Studies of De La Salle University-Manila (dlsu-Manila) and Fellow at the Southeast Asia Research Center and Hub (search) in the same university. David holds a PhD in Southeast Asian Studies and is currently a PhD student in Development Studies (Research Track). David is an Associate Member of Division I (Governmental, Educational and International Policies) of the National Research Council of the Philippines (nrcp) and is the lead convener of Professionals for a Progressive Economy.
Eirini Triarchi
is a Lecturer of Economics and Business Studies at the Department of Accounting and Finance at the University of Ioannina. The focal points of her