Alfredo Saad-Filho is professor of political economy at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is the author of The Value of Marx (2002), the editor of Anti-Capitalism: A Marxist Introduction (Pluto Press, 2003) and co-editor of Neoliberalism: A Critical Reader (Pluto Press, 2005).
Deborah Johnston is a Lecturer in Development Economics at SOAS. She has worked on labour markets and poverty, and has undertaken consultancy work in the UK, Russia and in a number of countries in Africa.