New Blog Page: Cooking the Books

Following on from previous posts on the blog giving details of the dedicated pages for the Material World and Pathfinder columns, here's a short post to tie up loose ends with details of the dedicated page for the Cooking the Books column. Like the Pathfinder column, the Cooking the Books column has been a regular feature in the pages of the Socialist Standard since January 2005 and, alongside the Material World column, all three columns have formed the backbone of the Standard in recent years.

Month on month the column sets out to relate "the basic concepts of Marxian economics from discussing contemporary news items and media reference to Marx’s ideas . . . " and, as there are 400 plus Cooking the Books columns on the blog at the time of writing, I thought a good introduction for the first time reader would be the list below of the 20 most popular columns that have appeared on the blog. 

20. Organised waste (May 2011)

19. A global capitalist class? (May 2011)

18. Who is Exploited? (January 2019)

17. Silly money (March 2009)

16. Allocating Resources (January 2017)

15. Yes, Read Marx (May 2018)

14. Abolish Money – But Not Now (February 2017)

13. Beyond Economics (October 2016)

12. Reform or Revolution? (May 2019)

11. ‘Transition period’ (January 2019)

10. A History of Slumps (August 2013)

9. Literal Communism (February 2019)

8. The First Lost Decade Since the 1860s (January 2017)

7. Trump and anti-socialism (March 2019)

6. But Who Owns the Machines? (February 2016)

5. Zollverein (April 2018)

4. Go on, ask for a pay rise (March 2022)

3. The Sinking Pound (November 2016)

2. Cashless but Not Profitless (December 2016)

1. Dreaming of Ending Poverty (October 2016)