World Review of Political Economy (WRPE) is a quarterly, peer-reviewed title, published by Pluto Journals as official journal of the World Association for Political Economy, to produce research into Marxist political economy, with the first issue having been published in 2010.

In its critical approaches to analyzing the social and economic problems facing humankind, the WRPE reflects the outlook of its founding organization. The World Association for Political Economy, founded in 2004, is an international nongovernmental academic body established on an open, non-profit and voluntary basis by progressive economists and related groups from around the world. The WAPE secretariat is based at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. The present chairman is Distinguished Professor Enfu Cheng at the University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

World Review of Political Economy (WRPE) is a peer-reviewed academic journal of Marxist Political Economy, which aims to promote the innovative research into Marxist economic theories and their practical applications to world economy, developed and undeveloped economies, capitalist and socialist economies and so on, and to benefit the development of the world and well-beings of its people. WRPE welcomes submissions in normative and empirical research including, but not limited to:

1. State Capitalism, Monopoly Capitalism, Financial Capitalism, Neoliberal Capitalism, Imperialism, and Capitalist Development History;
2. Economic Globalization, Internationalization of Capital, Global Value Chain, Underdevelopment, Unequal Exchange, Colonialism, and Capitalist System;
3. Exploitation, Profit Squeeze, Living Wage, Income Inequality, and Relationship between Capital and Labour;
4. Business Cycle, Capital Accumulation, Under-Consumption, Over-Investment, Financial Crisis, and Theory of Economic Crisis;
5. Organic Composition of Capital, Technical Change, Labour Process, Digital Economy, Platform Economy, Productive Automation, and Theory of Falling Profit Rate;
6. Productive and Unproductive Labour, Surplus Value, Value Composition of Capital, Value and Price, Value Formation and Transformation, and Labour Theory of Value;
7. Labour-Managed Firms, Participatory Planning, Market Socialism, Eco-Socialism, Feasible Socialism, and Socialist Development History.

Editor
Enfu Cheng (China), Professor at the University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Co-editors
David M. Kotz (US), Professor at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Hiroshi Onishi (Japan), Professor at Keio University
Jean-Claude Delaunay (France), Honorary Professor at Universities of Lille and Paris East-Marne la Vallée

Managing Editor
Zhongbao Wang (China ), Professor at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Assistant Editors
Dongyun Han (China), Assistant Professor at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Zhen Wang (China), Assistant Professor at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Editorial Board
Niemeyer Almeida Filho (Brazil), Professor at Federal University of Uberlandia
Josef Baum (Austria), Researcher at University of Vienna
Riccardo Bellofiore (Italy), Professor at University of Bergamo
Enfu Cheng (China), Professor and Member of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Jean-Claude Delaunay (France), Honorary Professor at Universities of Lille 1 and Paris East-Marne la Vallée
Radhika Desai (Canada), Professor at University of Manitoba
Heinz Dieterich (Germany), Professor at Metropolitan Autonomous University
Xiaoqin Ding (China), Professor at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Gérard Duménil (France), Former Research Director at French National Centre for Scientific Research
John Bellamy Foster (US), Professor at University of Oregon, Editor of Monthly Review
Hailiang Gu (China), Professor at Peking University
Henri Houben (Belgium), Researcher at Research Group for an Alternative Economic Strategy and Institute for Marxist Studies
Leming Hu (China), Professor at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
David M. Kotz (US), Professor at University of Massachusetts Amherst
David Laibman (US), Professor at City University of New York, Editor of Science & Society
Thomas E. Lambert (US), Associate Professor at University of Louisville
Jianping Li (China), Professor at Fujian Normal University
Stavros Mavroudeas (Greece), Professor at Panteion University
Hiroshi Ohnishi (Japan), Professor at Keio University
Ozgur Orhangazi (Turkey), Professor at Kadir Has University
Sandoval Ramírez Luis (Mexico), Professor at National Autonomous University of Mexico
Roger Seifert (UK), Professor at Wolverhampton University
Pritam Singh (India), Professor at Oxford Brookes University
Balwinder Singh Tiwana (India), Professor at Punjabi University
Lefteris Tsoulfidis (Greece), Professor at University of Macedonia
Roberto Mangabeira Unger (Brazil), Professor at Harvard University
Zhongbao Wang (China), Professor at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Pengfei Yan (China), Professor at Wuhan University
Yunxia Yang (China), Professor at Northwestern Polytechincal University

Editorial Office, wrpe@cass.org.cn or wrpejournal@sina.com

Managing editor, Prof. Zhongbao Wang, wangzb@cass.org.cn

Publisher Pluto Journals, evek@plutojournals.com

The Journal is published quarterly in March (Spring issue), June (Summer issue), September (Fall issue) and December (Winter issue). The electronic journal is archived in Portico. The Journal has been indexed in ESCI (Emerging Sources Citation Index, an edition of Web of Science) since 2015, and indexed in Scopus since June 2018. The journal has been indexed on DOAJ since March 2023. 

The journal is Open Access and the Open Access statement, Open Access license terms, copyright terms as well as a statement on its absolute lack of author charges can be found here. 

The journal became Open Access on 1 January 2021 and is published open access on ScienceOpen. All journal material published prior to 1 January 2021 is also published, open access on  ScienceOpen. This means the Reuse rights of published material is all under the open CC BY 4.0 license as stated here. 

 All authors must comply with the common publishing ethics, and warrant that their article is their own original work, which does not infringe the intellectual property rights of any other person or entity, and cannot be construed as plagiarizing any other published work, including their own previously published work. The article contains no content that is abusive, defamatory, libellous, obscene, fraudulent, nor in any way infringes the rights of others, nor is in any other way unlawful or in violation of applicable laws.

The journal adheres to the ethical standards endorsed by the Committee on Publication Ethics. In particular:

1. We expect all authors to state in their article if they have a conflict of interest which could
   potentially bias their opinions – for example funding or employment.
2. All named authors on the articles should confirm that they have jointly participated in the research and writing of the article, and that no author has been omitted from the list of authors.
3.  We require authors to warrant that their articles are original, have not been previously
   published, and do not plagiarise or otherwise copy someone else’s work without attribution. (If the article is a translation, we are happy to consider this for publication but the authors must inform the editors on submission).
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