FredMagdoff is professor emeritus of Plant & Soil Science at the Universityof Vermont. He is author of some 100 papers on soil fertility, agroecology,and on the U.S. economy. He is co-editor of Agriculture and Food in Crisis(with Brian Tokar, 2010) and co-author of: What Every Environmentalist Needsto Know About Capitalism (with John Bellamy Foster, 2011), Creating anEcological Society (with Chris Williams, 2017), and Building Soils for BetterCrops (with Harold van Es, 2020). John Bellamy Foster is professor emeritus of sociology at the University ofOregon and editor of Monthly Review. He is the author of The Theory ofMonopoly Capitalism (1986, 2004), The Great Financial Crisis (with FredMagdoff, 2009), The Endless Crisis (with Robert W. McChesney, 2012), andTrump in the White House (2017).