Atilio A. Borón is a political scientist and sociologist. He has been a professor at the Social Sciences Faculty of the University of Buenos Aires since 1986. He is a senior researcher at CONICET. He is the author of many books including State, Capitalism, and Democracy in Latin America (1991), Empire and Imperialism: A Critical Reading of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri (2002), Twenty-first Century Socialism: Is There Life After Neoliberalism? (2008), and most recently, América Latina en la Geopolítica del Imperialismo (2012).

E. Ahmet Tonak is a political economist who teaches at the Economics Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the author and editor of several books including Measuring the Wealth of Nations: The Political Economy of National Accounts (with Anwar Shaikh), Turkey in Transition: New Perspectives (edited with Irvin Schick) and Marxism and Classes (edited with Sungur Savran and Kurtar Tanyılmaz). He is also a member of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.

Emiliano López is an economist and Assistant Professor at the University of La Plata. He also works as a researcher for National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, Buenos Aires Office.

Gabriel E. Merino is a sociologist who specializes in the social analysis of politics and economy in contemporary Argentina. He is a professor at the National University of La Plata and a researcher at CONICET.

John Smith is an independent researcher and writer based in Sheffield, United Kingdom. He did his PhD from the University of Sheffield. He is the author of Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and Capitalism’s Final Crisis (2016), which received the first Paul A. Baran–Paul M. Sweezy Memorial Award by the Monthly Review Foundation for an original monograph on the political economy of imperialism.

Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik are Professors Emerita and Emeritus respectively at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University. They are among the leading Marxist political economists in the world and have authored numerous books and contributed articles to a range of journals in the course of their long academic careers.