Articles by Richard Walker

• The Golden State Adrift
  • Richard Walker

  in NLR 66, November-December 2010, pp. 5-30
  Subjects: United States
  

  Long at the forefront of US capitalism, the Golden State is now at the leading edge of its crisis. Richard Walker measures the dimensions of California’s slide—housing bubble, fiscal woes, rising inequality—as well as the underlying demographic and economic shifts.

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• The Chinese Road
  • Richard Walker &
  • Daniel Buck

  in NLR 46, July-August 2007, pp. 39-66
  Subjects: China , Economic Theory
  

  The PRC’s breakneck transition to capitalism seen through the prism of 19th-century Europe and America, as its cities rehearse the processes analysed by Marx: commodification of land and labour, formation of markets and capitalist elites. What lessons might the West’s past hold for China’s future?

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• California Rages Against the Dying of the Light
  • Richard Walker

  in NLR I/209, January-February 1995, pp. 42-74
  Subjects: United States
  

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