CONTENTS

　　Articles

　　The Possibility of Creating a Global Currency, and the Path toIts Realization

　　Enfu Cheng and Cui Wang

　　The Crisis of the Early 21st Century: General Interpretation, RecentDevelopments, and Perspectives

　　Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy

　　The Global Crisis and the Governance of Power in Finance

　　Gary A. Dymski

　　The Marxian Optimal Growth Model, Reproduction Scheme,and General Law of CapitalistAccumulation

　　Hiroshi Onishi

　　Parameter Estimation for the Marxian Optimal Growth Model

　　Atsushi Tazoe

　　Classes and Class Differentiation in India’s Countryside

　　V. K. Ramachandran

　　Marx, Marxism and the British Working Class Movement:Some Continuing Issues for the 21st Century

　　John Foster

　　The Relationships among Certain Political and SocioeconomicVariables with Economic Efficiency:An ExploratoryArticle

　　Thomas E. Lambert

　　Communications

　　The Interpretation of Capital:An Interview with Michael Heinrich

　　Xiaoping Wei

　　People

　　TheAcademic Thought andAchievements of Xunhua Zhang

　　Yi Zhou

　　Editor: Zhou Miao