Michael A. McCarthy

Why is democracy so broken and how might it be fixed? Most political commentators point to heads of state, such as the Presidency, and other formal institutions of the state. But in The Master’s Tools, award-winning author Michael A. McCarthy argues the answer lies elsewhere, in the flows of credit and investment bound up with finance capital. In this groundbreaking...

Erik Olin Wright taught the course Sociological Marxism for nearly three decades. Generations of influential thinkers passed through the course, and it took on an almost mythic stature on the left and throughout the discipline of sociology. Though it evolved over time, the guiding principles remained the same: claims about how the world works ought to be testable. Values can...