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This collection includes:

  • Shaikh, A. (n.d.). Brenner's central theses [Typed outline with handwritten annotations by Anwar Shaikh, PhD].
  • Zacharias, A. (1999, February). Competition and profitability: A critique of Robert Brenner [Preliminary paper draft annotated by Anwar Shaikh, PhD].
  • Dumenil, G., Glick, M., & Levy, D. (n.d.). Brenner on competition [Article manuscript annotated by Anwar Shaikh, PhD].
  • Shaikh, A. (1999, June 24-November). Brenner Fund: International manufacturing profitability and capital-stock data [Handwritten source inventories and calculations for Germany, Japan, and the United States interleaved with annotated United Nations national-accounts tables].
  • Statistics Bureau, Management and Coordination Agency. Historical Statistics of Japan, Volume 2: Indexes of production capacity and operating rate in manufacturing, 1960-1985 [Annotated statistical-table extract with its marked source title page]. (1987).
  • Research and Statistics Department, Ministry of International Trade and Industry. Japan Statistical Yearbook: Indexes of production capacity and operating rate, 1973-1996 [Two distinct annotated statistical-table versions with the 1998 source title page]. (1998).
  • Shaikh, A. (1999, April 23). Brenner: Data documentation [Handwritten working note on OECD ISDB coverage, missing Japanese capital variables, U.S. historical series, and comparative profit-rate measures].
  • Shaikh, A. (1999, October 5). Brenner data corrections [Handwritten note correcting Japanese depreciation and output-capital calculations and planning a reconstructed U.S. depreciation series].
  • Shaikh, A. (1999, August; revised September 27 and November 22). Explaining the global economic crisis: A critique of Brenner [Heavily annotated draft contrasting Brenner's overcompetition thesis with Marxian real competition].
  • U.S. relative gold price of producer goods (WPI/gold price) [Annotated chart tracing the U.S. wholesale-price index relative to gold from 1800 to 2000]. (n.d.).
  • Nikko Research Center. (1991). Real land prices [Chart of Japanese urban land prices relative to the consumer price index, 1969-1990].
  • Real corporate profit and real stock market index [Chart comparing real corporate profit with the real S&P composite index, 1955-1995]. (n.d.).
  • Harberger, A. C. World inflation revisited [Annotated excerpt comparing acute and chronic inflation and banking-system finance of public sectors]. (n.d.).
  • Real wages, productivity, and unemployment, 1947-1990 [Two-chart data packet comparing real product wages with unemployment and productivity]. (n.d.).
  • Kleinfeld, N. R. (1996, March 4). The company as family, no more [Annotated New York Times feature on Chase Manhattan layoffs and the decline of paternalistic employment relations].
  • The New York Times. (1996, March 3). The downsizing of America: Technological breakthroughs and workplace insecurity [Illustrated feature spread on automation, layoffs, job insecurity, and their effects on families and children].
  • Baker, R. What a dunce [Annotated newspaper column satirizing policies that maintain unemployment to restrain wages and inflation]. (n.d.).
  • Uchitelle, L., & Kleinfeld, N. R. (1996, March 3). On the battlefields of business, millions of casualties [Newspaper article surveying the human consequences of mass layoffs amid rising corporate profits].
  • Japan's two economies, 1987-1992 [Datastream chart juxtaposing Japanese gross national product with the Nikkei 225]. (n.d.).
  • Shaikh, A. (1996, August 9). NBAI notes [Handwritten talking points linking the reserve army of labor, expendable workers, population growth, and women's development].
  • Sen, A. (1994, September 22). Population: Delusion and reality [Annotated article relating fertility decline to development and women's agency while challenging population alarmism].
  • U.S. real interest rates and WPI, 1871-1995 [Two-chart packet comparing real and nominal municipal-bond interest rates with the wholesale-price index]. (n.d.).
  • Shaikh, A. (1999, July 25-26). Adjusting the rate of profit for cyclical fluctuations [Annotated memo and chart packet developing an alternative capacity-utilization adjustment for manufacturing profit rates].
  • Shaikh, A. (1982, February). Notes on Charles Norman's theory of the crisis [Handwritten notes on wage-squeeze, government-spending, and military-expenditure explanations of the postwar crisis].
  • Urquhart, M. (1981, March). Three theories of economic crisis [Annotated magazine article evaluating monopoly, loss-of-hegemony, and long-wave explanations of the 1970s crisis].
  • Shaikh, A. Crisis and profitability notes on Mandel, Gordon, and long waves [Handwritten notes comparing wage-squeeze and profitability theories of accumulation and crisis]. (n.d.).
  • Lewis, P. (1998, June 27). Marx's stock resurges on a 150-year tip [Newspaper article assessing the Communist Manifesto's claims about globalization, competition, concentration, and capitalism's adaptability].
  • Shaikh, A. (1995, May 15). Woodstock talk: Not by bread alone [Annotated lecture linking unemployment, mechanization, downsizing, unequal development, population, and sustainability].
  • Shaikh, A. (1998, April 5). Rediscovering Marx's economics (UMass) [Handwritten lecture notes on competition, profit-driven accumulation, recurrent crises, and long waves].
  • Cassidy, J. (1997, October 20 and 27). The return of Karl Marx [Annotated New Yorker article reassessing Marx's analysis of capitalism, globalization, class polarization, and corporate power].
  • Updike, J. (1997, October 20 and 27). Millennium fever [New Yorker essay on calendrical and cultural anxieties surrounding the year 2000].
  • Marcus, S. Marx's masterpiece at 150 [Newspaper review essay on the Communist Manifesto's literary structure and account of capitalist globalization]. (n.d.).
  • Unemployment rates: EC and U.S., 1973-1993 [Chart contrasting unemployment trends in the European Community and the United States]. (n.d.).
  • Shaikh, A. (1998, December 10). Notes on growth limits and the falling rate of profit [Handwritten notes on global limits, uneven development, cyclical crisis, and mechanization].
  • International Labor Office, Washington Branch. (Winter 1995). World employment crisis worst since 1930s depression [Annotated report excerpt on worldwide unemployment, underemployment, growth, trade, retraining, and labor-market policy].
  • Shaikh, A. (1995, May 15). Woodstock talk outline [Handwritten outline on global depression, sustainability, capitalism's limits, democracy, justice, and alternatives].
  • Japanese stock market, 1950-1990 [Hand-drawn chart showing the late-1980s surge and subsequent decline in real Japanese share prices]. (n.d.).
  • Shaikh, A., & Mazzucato, M. (1994, November 3-1995, August). Adjusting unemployment for incarceration rates [Memo, tables, and charts recalculating U.S. civilian and Black unemployment rates to include prisoners].
  • Shaikh, A. (1996, May). Data series [Handwritten work plan for compiling long-term output, productivity, price, monetary, stock-market, exchange-rate, and crisis series].
  • Shaikh, A. (1992, April 18). New crisis data file [Handwritten source notes for capital stock, profits, output, wages, unemployment, productivity, and federal-deficit variables].
  • Silk, L. (1983, May 4). Strange new robotic world [Annotated newspaper column on Japanese industrial robotics, work, and labor displacement].
  • Shaikh, A. (1980, July). Business cycles and long-term price movements [Annotated chart compilation of business cycles, the U.S. wholesale-price index, and industrial and commodity-price cycles].
  • The Nikkei index, June 1991-June 1992 [Chart tracking the marked decline of the Nikkei over fifty-eight weeks]. (n.d.).
  • WPI and gold-price series, United States and England, 1800-1995 [Annotated chart packet comparing wholesale prices, gold prices, and the gold price of commodities across long waves]. (n.d.).
  • Herbert, B. Nike's boot camps [Newspaper column on low wages, discipline, corporal punishment, and sexual abuse among young women producing Nike shoes in Vietnam]. (n.d.).
  • Chira, S. (1988, April 7). Wages, discipline give Korea an edge [Newspaper article on South Korea's manufacturing advantage, labor conditions, and automation].
  • Seelye, K. Q. (1998, March 30). Arms contractors spend to promote an expanded NATO [Newspaper article on defense-industry lobbying and campaign spending for NATO expansion].
  • Shaikh, A. (1998, June 10 and 17). Present state of U.S. workers [Handwritten lecture notes on postwar growth, stagnation, profitability, labor repression, mechanization, globalization, and government deficits].

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