On the last day of the old year in the newsletter CounterPunch, two Israelis—Jeff Halper, who heads the Israeli peace movement ICAHD, and Neve Gordon, who is chairman of the department of politics and government at Ben-Gurion University—asked, "Where's the Academic Outrage Over the Bombing of a University in Gaza?" "Not one of the nearly 450 presidents of American colleges and universities who prominently denounced an...

Moving jobs overseas can cut a company's costs. But is it bad for the U.S. economy? Two economists debate the issue. By TIMOTHY AEPPEL  Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL May 10, 2004; Page R6 Does offshore outsourcing hurt the U.S. economy by draining away jobs and investment, or does it ultimately make the U.S. stronger? Is it a cost-cutting tactic that should be encouraged, or should it...

This article appeared in the Spring 2004 issue of The Independent Review My path to Karl Marx was through my work on the Soviet economy. Sovietologists had difficulty comprehending the organizational nature of the Soviet economy because they were uninformed about its Marxian aspirations. Sovietologists regarded Marx as irrelevant to an understanding of the Soviet economy. Alexander Gerschenkron, one of the most distinguished Sovietologists, told...

The Harsh Truth About Outsourcing was published in BUSINESSWEEK, March 2004 It's not a mutually beneficial trade practice -- it's outright labor arbitrage  Economists are blind to the loss of American industries and occupations because they believe these results reflect the beneficial workings of free trade. Whatever is being lost, they think, is being replaced by something as good or better. This thinking is rooted...

Second Thoughts on Free Trade By Charles Schumer and Paul Craig Roberts ''I was brought up, like most Englishmen, to respect free trade not only as an economic doctrine which a rational and instructed person could not doubt but almost as a part of the moral law,'' wrote John Maynard Keynes in 1933. And indeed, to this day, nothing gets an economist's blood boiling more...

This article appeared in the Winter 2003 issue of The Independent Review Supply-side economics is a major innovation in economics. It says that fiscal policy works by changing relative prices and shifting the aggregate supply curve,not by raising or lowering disposable income and shifting the aggregate demand curve. Supply-side economics reconciled micro- and macroeconomics by making relative-price analysis the basis for macro-conclusions. The argument is...

This article by Paul Craig Roberts appeared in the Spring 2003 issue of The Independent Review. The execution of an innocent person cannot be remedied. This fact, together with mounting evidence of innocents on death row, has strengthened opposition to the death penalty. Nevertheless, the death penalty has proved to be a divisive issue. The divide between liberals and conservatives on the death penalty could...