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  1. Capital Accumulation and the State System: Assessing David Harvey's The New Imperialism.Alex Callinicos & Sam Ashman - 2006 - Historical Materialism 14 (4):107-131.
  2. Economics and Political Economy Today: Introduction to the Symposium on Fine and Milonakis.Sam Ashman - 2012 - Historical Materialism 20 (3):3-8.
    Economics has long been the ‘dismal science’. The crisis in classical political economy at the end of the nineteenth century produced radically differing intellectual responses: Marx’s reconstitution of value theory on the basis of his dialectical method, the marginalists’ development of subjective value theory, and the historical school’s advocacy of inductive and historical reasoning. It is against this background that economics was established as a discrete academic discipline, consciously modelling itself on maths and physics and developing its focus on theorising (...)
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    Editorial Introduction to the Symposium on the Global Financial Crisis.Sam Ashman - 2009 - Historical Materialism 17 (2):103-108.
    The current global economic crisis is historically unprecedented in that it began when poor groups in the United States defaulted on their mortgage-payments and spread fear of 'toxic debt' through an internationalised financial system, bringing the banking system close to collapse and highlighting the very individualised nature of contemporary financial relations. The symposium explores contemporary finance and banking practices in the context of Marxist political economy seeking to develop the notion of financialisation and arguing that banks' increasing reliance on individual (...)
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  4. Editorial Introduction.Sam Ashman - 2006 - Historical Materialism 14 (4):3-7.
    I survey some important semantical and axiomatic theories of self-referential truth. Kripke's fixed-point theory, the revision theory of truth and appraoches involving fuzzy logic are the main examples of semantical theories. I look at axiomatic theories devised by Cantini, Feferman, Freidman and Sheard. Finally some applications of the theory of self-referential truth are considered.
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