Karl Marx: the needs of capital vs. the needs of human beings / by Michael Lebowitz -- Thorstein Veblen: the evolution of capitalism from economic and political to social dominance; economics as its faithful servant / by Douglas Dowd -- What gramsci means today / by Carl Boggs -- The U.S. institutionalists / by Michael Keaney -- Post Keynesian economics / by Frederic Lee -- Paul Sweezy and the monopoly capital school / by John Bellamy Foster -- Amartya Sen: late twentieth century's greatest political economist? / by Robin Hahnel.