Publications
Books and Edited Volumes
Capitalist Globalization: Consequences, Resistance, and Alternatives, New York: Monthly Review Press, 2013 (reprinted in Japanese).
Marxist Perspectives on South Korea in the Global Economy, edited with Richard Westra and Seongjin Jeong, Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing, 2007; Routledge 2017.
China and Socialism: Market Reforms and Class Struggle, with Paul Burkett, New York: Monthly Review Press, 2005 (reprinted in Hindi, Korean, Mandarin, Spanish, Turkish, and Norwegian).
Understanding Japanese Capitalism, with Paul Burkett, Seoul, South Korea: Meeto Publishers, 2005 (in Korean).
Development, Crisis, and Class Struggle: Learning from Japan and East Asia, with Paul Burkett, New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000.
Korea: Division, Reunification, and U.S. Foreign Policy, New York: Monthly Review Press, 1998 (reprinted in Korean).
The Rush To Development: Economic Change and Political Struggle in South Korea, New York: Monthly Review Press, 1993.
Articles
“War and Peace on the Korean Peninsula,” Le Monde diplomatic, June 2024.
‘’Planning an Ecologically Sustainable and Democratic Economy: Challenges and Tasks,” Monthly Review, Vol 75, No 3 (July-August 2023).
“U.S. Economic Planning in the Second World War and the Planetary Crisis,” Monthly Review, Vol 74, No 9 (February 2023).
“The Planning and Politics of Transformation: World War II Lessons for a Green New Deal,” New Politics, Vol. XVIII, No. 4 (Winter 2022).
“Realizing A Green New Deal: Lessons From World War II,” Class, Race and Corporate Power, Vol 9, Issue 2 (2021).
“The Green New Deal and the State: Lessons from World War II,” Against the Current, No 207 (July-August 2020).
“What the New Deal Can Teach Us About Winning a Green New Deal,” Class, Race and Corporate Power, Vol 8, No 1 (2020).
“The Pitfalls and Possibilities of Socialist Transformation: The Case of Greece,” Class, Race and Corporate Power, Vol 4, Issue 1 (May 2016).
“From the Claw to the Lion: A Critical Look at Capitalist Globalization,” Critical Asian Studies, Vol 47, No 1 (March 2015).
“Lessons from Iceland: Capitalism, Crisis, and Resistance,” Monthly Review, Vol 65, No 6 (October 2013).
“Capitalism, The Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, and Resistance,” Critical Asian Studies, Vol 43, No 3 (2011).
“The Chinese Reform Experience, A Critical Assessment,” Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol 43, No 1 (Winter 2011).
“ALBA and the Promise of Cooperative Development,” Monthly Review, Vol 62, No 7 (December 2010).
”Forget the FTA Fix, Just Say No,” with Christine Ahn, Foreign Policy In Focus, October 2010.
“ALBA and Cooperative Development: Lessons from the European Payments Union,” Marxism 21, Vol 7, No 3 (2010).
“China, Capitalist Accumulation, and World Crisis,” Marxism 21, Vol 7, No 1 (2010).
“The U.S. Economy and China: Capitalism, Class and Crisis,” Monthly Review, Vol 61, No 9 (February 2010).
“Learning from ALBA and the Bank of the South: Challenges and Possibilities,” Monthly Review, Vol 61, No 4 (September 2009).
“The Promise and Perils of Korean Reunification,” Monthly Review, Vol 60, No 11 (April 2009).
“The Realities of China Today,” Against the Current, No 137 (November/December 2008).
“China, Capitalist Accumulation, and Labor,” with Paul Burkett, Monthly Review, Vol 59, No 1 (May 2007).
“Sanctions and the Road to War in Korea,” with John Feffer, Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, Vol 5, No 1 (January 2007).
“China and the Dynamics of Transnational Accumulation: Causes and Consequences of Global Restructuring,” with Paul Burkett, Historical Materialism, Vol 14, No 3 (2006).
“Neoliberalism: Myths and Reality,” Monthly Review, Vol 57, No 11 (April 2006).
“China and Socialism: Engaging the Issues,” with Paul Burkett, Critical Asian Studies, Vol 37, No 4 (December 2005).
“Thinking About China: Capitalism, Socialism, and Class Struggle,” with Paul Burkett, New Socialist, No. 51 (May-June 2005).
“The South Korean Economy and U.S. Policy,” Asian Perspective, Vol 28, No 4 (2004).
“China and Socialism, Market Reforms and Class Struggle,” with Paul Burkett, Monthly Review, Vol 56, No 3 (July-August, 2004).
“China in the Context of Uneven and Combined Development,” with Paul Burkett, Korean Journal of Political Economy, Vol 2 (2004).
“International Conditions and South Korean Capital Accumulation, 1987-2003,” Solidarity and Practice (South Korea), No. 120 (June 2004).
“Popular Mobilization and Progressive Policy Making: Lessons from World War II Price Control Struggles in the United States,” Science and Society, Vol 67, No 4 (2003).
“The Economic Crisis in Japan: Mainstream Perspectives and an Alternative View,” with Paul Burkett, Critical Asian Studies, Vol 35, No 3 (2003).
“A Critique of ‘Catch-Up’ Theories of Development,” with Paul Burkett, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol 33, No 2 (2003).
“Development, Crisis and Class Struggle in East Asia: A Reply,” with Paul Burkett, Historical Materialism, Vol 11, No 1 (2003).
“Korea: Crisis and Opportunity,” Against the Current, 103 (March/April 2003).
“Progressive Capitalism, Crisis, and Class Struggle: Lessons from Japan’s Production Control and Democracy Movements, ” with Paul Burkett, Capital and Class, Issue 79 (Spring 2003).
“Challenging Neoliberal Myths: A Critical Look at the Mexican Experience,” Monthly Review, Vol 54, No 7 (December 2002).
“Crisis and Recovery in East Asia: The Limits of Capitalist Development,” with Paul Burkett, Historical Materialism, Vol 8 (2001).
“Economic Crisis and Restructuring in South Korea: Beyond the Free Market-Statist Debate,” with Paul Burkett, Critical Asian Studies, Vol 33, No 3 (September 2001).
“Economic and Political Dynamics of South-North Reconciliation,” Asian Perspective, Vol 25, No 2 (2001).
“FTAA, The Hydra’s New Head,” Against the Current, Vol 15, No 6 (January-February 2001).
“Alternative Perspectives on Late Industrialization in East Asia: A Critical Survey,” with Paul Burkett, Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol 32, No 2 (2000).
“After Seattle: Strategic Thinking About Movement Building,” Monthly Review, Vol 52, No 3 (July-August 2000).
“Capitalism and the Asian Crisis: A Critique of the ‘Mismatch’ Model,” with Paul Burkett, Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Vol 31, No 4 (October-December 1999).
“East Asia in Crisis: Beyond TINA, Towards Socialism,” with Paul Burkett, Monthly Review, Vol 51, No 2 (June 1999).
“East Asia and the Crisis of Development Theory,” with Paul Burkett, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol 28, No 4 (1998).
“Contradictions of Capitalist Industrialization in East Asia: A Critique of ‘Flying Geese’ Theories of Development,” with Paul Burkett, Economic Geography, Vol 74, No 2 (April 1998).
“The Asian Crisis: Causes and Consequences,” Against the Current, 73 (March/April 1998). Revised and reprinted (in German) in Means and End (Austria), Vol 57, No 1 (1999).
“The Left-Liberal Consensus on Japan: A Methodological and Political Critique,” with Paul Burkett, Monthly Review, Vol 48, No 4 (September 1996).
“Korean Unification: Learning from the German Experience,” Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol 26, No 1 (1996). Reprinted (in Korean) in Tasks of Korean Reunification (South Korea), No 4 (August 1995).
“The South Korean Experience in Broad Brush Strokes” (Chinese translation of the “Introduction” to Rush to Development: Economic Change and Political Struggle in South Korea, Social Sciences Abroad, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 1994 (August).
“Who’s Threatening Who?” Technology Review (MIT), Vol 97, No 5 (July 1994).
“Post-NAFTA Politics: Learning from Asia,” Monthly Review, Vol 46, No 2 (June 1994).
“People’s Plan for the 21st Century: It May be Positive, But is it Radical?”Japan-Asia, Quarterly Review, Vol 25, No 1 (1994).
“New Forces for Change in Japan,” BRIDGES: Quaker International Affairs Report, 93/6 (December 1993).
“Where is China Heading?” Canadian Dimension, November-December 1993.
“Economic Growth and Political Struggle in South Korea,” Labor, Capital and Society, Vol 23, No 2 (November 1990).
“South Korea: Looking at the Left,” Monthly Review, Vol 41, No 3 (July-August 1989).
“South Korea: The Miracle Rejected,” Critical Sociology, Vol 15, No 3 (Fall 1988).
“South Korea: The Fraudulent Miracle,” Monthly Review, Vol 39, No 7 (December 1987). Reprinted (in Swedish) Korea Information, 2 (1988).
“One Enemy, One Movement,” Central American Update, Vol 4, No 2 (April 1987).
“Latin America’s Crisis: Solidarity Begins at Home,” Central American Update, Vol 3, No 1 (March 1986).
“Job Creation: A Socialist Strategy for the Public Sector,” with Jerry Lembcke, Humanity & Society, Vol 10, No 1 (1986).
“Reindustrialization Revisited: A Response to Burris,” with Jerry Lembcke, Insurgent Sociologist, Vol 13, Nos 1-2 (Summer-Fall 1985).
“Reindustrialization and the Logic of Class Politics in Late Twentieth Century America,” with Jerry Lembcke, Insurgent Sociologist, Vol 13, Nos 1-2 (Summer-Fall 1985).
“The Poor Have Nothing More to Lose,” Central American Update, Vol 2, No 7 (October 1985).
“Fidel: ‘The Debt is Unpayable’,” Central American Update, Vol 2, No 5 (July-August 1985).
“Class Struggle and Economic Transformation,” with Jerry Lembcke, Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol 16, No 4 (Winter 1984).
“Capitalism and Third World Economic Development: A Critical Look at the South Korean ‘Miracle’,” Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol 16, Nos 2-3 (Summer-Fall 1984).
“Latin America; Understanding the Debt Crisis,” with Sylvia Hart-Landsberg, Central America Update, Vol 1, No 6 (September 1984) and Vol 1, No 7 (October 1984).
“A New Deal or a New Deck: Class Politics in the 1980s,” with Jerry Lembcke, Economic Forum, Vol 13, No 3 (Winter 1982-83).
“Economic Democracy: Dealing Capital In or Out in the 1980s?” with Jerry Lembcke, Insurgent Sociologist, Vol 10, No 3 (Winter 1981).
“Export-led Industrialization in the Third World,” Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol 11, No 4 (Winter 1979).
“Transnational Production and the Worldwide Contradictions of Advanced Capitalism,” with Berch Berberoglu, Social Praxis (1978).
“Oil and the Eurocurrency Market: Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Fire,” Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol 8, No 4 (Winter 1976).
“Multinational Corporations and the Crisis of Capitalism,” Insurgent Sociologist, Vol 6, No 3 (Spring 1976).
“Black Gold and the Re-emergence of the Dollar Standard,” Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol 7, No 1 (Spring 1975).
Book Chapters
“Capitalist Globalization and its Consequences (in Korean),” in Institute for Social Sciences of Gyeongsang National University, editor, Globalization and Contradictions of Capital Accumulation: Marxist Perspectives, Seoul, South Korea: Hanul Publishing Company, 2012.
“ALBA and the Bank of the South,” in Monica Dias Martins and Rosemary Galli, editors, Multilaterialism and South American Reactions, Ceara, Brazil: State University of Ceara Press, 2011.
“The Living Wage Movement: Challenges of a Reform Struggle (in Korean),” in Institute for Social Sciences of Gyeongsang National University, editor, Alternative Economic Strategy and Korean Economy, Seoul, South Korea: Hanul Publishing Company, 2009.
“Introduction: Marxist Perspectives on South Korea in the Global Economy,” with Seongjin Jeong and Richard Westra, in Martin Hart-Landsberg, Seongjin Jeong and Richard Westra, editors, Marxist Perspectives on South Korea in the Global Economy, Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing, 2007.
“China and the Dynamics of Transnational Capital Accumulation,” with Paul Burkett, in Martin Hart-Landsberg, Seongjin Jeong and Richard Westra, editors, Marxist Perspectives on South Korea in the Global Economy, Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing, 2007.
“The South Korean Economy: Problems and Prospects,” in Martin Hart-Landsberg, Seongjin Jeong and Richard Westra, editors, Marxist Perspectives on South Korea in the Global Economy, Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing, 2007.
“China and Socialism: Engaging the Issues,” with Paul Burkett, in Hari P. Sharma, editor, Critical Perspectives on China’s Economic Transformation: A “Critical Asian Studies” Roundtable on the Book China and Socialism by Martin Hart-Landsberg and Paul Burkett, Delhi: Daanish Books, 2007.
“The Slippery Slope of Market Reform: A Critical Look at the Chinese Experience” (in Korean), with Paul Burkett, in Institute for Social Sciences of Gyeongsang National University, editor, Alternative Economic Systems: Theory and History, Seoul, South Korea: Hanul Publishing Company, 2007.
“The Mexican Experience With Neoliberalism: Critical Lessons for Korea and Asia (in Korean),” in Institute for Social Sciences of Gyeongsang National University, editor, Workers’ Responses to Neoliberalism: International Experiences, Seoul, South Korea: Hanul Publishing Company, 2002.
“Mainstream Responses to the East Asian Crisis: A Radical Interpretation,” with Paul Burkett, in Ron Baiman et al, editors, Political Economy and Contemporary Capitalism: Radical Perspectives on Economic Theory and Policy, New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2000.
“The Use and Abuse of Japan as a Progressive Model,” with Paul Burkett, in Leo Panitch, editor, Socialist Register 1996, New York: Monthly Review Press, 1996.
“Export-led Industrialization in the Third World,” in Richard Peet, editor, International Capitalism and Industrial Restructuring, Boston: Allen and Unwin, 1987.
“Public Sector Workers and the Crisis of Capitalism,” with Jerry Lembcke and Bob Marotto, in Kenneth Fox et al, editors, Crisis in the Public Sector: A Reader, New York: Monthly Review Press and Union for Radical Political Economics, 1981.
“Public Employees: Digging Graves for the System?”, with Jerry Lembcke and Bob Marotto, in Penelope Ciancanelli et al, editors, U.S. Capitalism in Crisis, New York: Union for Radical Political Economics, 1978.
Book Reviews
“Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century,” by Giovanni Arrighi, Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol 43, No 1 (Winter 2011).
“Setting the Record Straight on the Korean War,” a review of The Korean War, 1945-1953 by Hugh Deane, Monthly Review, Vol 52, No 5 (October 2000). Reprinted in Norwegian in Red Banner, NR. 5 (2000).
“Dark Victory: Capitalism Unchecked,” a review of Dark Victory: The United States, Structural Adjustment, and Global Poverty by Walden Bello with Shea Cunningham and Bill Rau, Monthly Review, Vol 46, No 10 (March 1995).
South Korea: Dissent Within the Economic Miracle by George E. Ogle, Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol 24, No 1 (Spring 1992).
“The Asian NICs at the Crossroads,” a review of Dragons in Distress: Asia’s Miracle Economics in Crisis by Walden Bello and Stephanie Rosenfeld, Monthly Review, Vol 43, No 4 (September 1991).
“Learning from South Korea,” a review of Asia’s Next Giant: South Korea and Late Industrialization, by Alice H. Amsden, Monthly Review, Vol 42, No 4 (September 1990).
Economic Democracy by Martin Carnoy and Derek Shearer, with Jerry Lembcke, Insurgent Sociologist, Vol 10, No 3 (Winter 1981).
The Origins of International Economic Disorder by Fred Block, Insurgent Sociologist, Vol 8, No 1 (Winter 1978).
The Debt Trap by Cheryl Payer, Insurgent Sociologist, Vol 7, No 1 (Winter 1977).
“Understanding the Crisis of Monopoly Capitalism (Review Essay),” Insurgent Sociologist, Vol 6, No 4 (Summer 1976).