The volumes previously in this annual that I am familiar with from the 80's are serious. Zarembka's contributions , way too heavy on the Althusserianism, IIRC, though. That Zarembka has drank the kool aid, well...;-( The scholars below are well regarded.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PZarembka/homepage.htm#prior "Collections like Research in Political Economy provide a forum for ... serious radical scholarship so grotesquely absent from most mainstream periodicals" -- Richard B. DuBoff, Monthly Review
"Research in Political Economy has played a very positive role in developing the scientific Marxist agenda for the last 25 years" -- Ajit Sinha, Science & Society
PART II. ABSTRACT LABOR, PRICE, AND TECHNICAL CHOICE IN CAPITALISM
Quantifying Abstract Labor: "Aliquot Part" Reasoning in Marx's Value Theory Bruce Roberts, University of Southern Maine
Exchange, Demand and the Market-Price of Production: Reconciling Traditional and Monetary Approaches to Value and Price David Kristjanson-Gural, Bucknell University
Testing Okishio's Criterion of Technical Choice Cheol-Soo Park, Pratt Institute
Testing for the Marxian-Classical Criterion of Technical Choice Gérard Duménil, Université de Paris X-Nanterre, and Dominique Lévy, CEPREMAP-ENS, Paris
PART III. SOCIALISM
Reflections on Economic Democracy Paul Cockshott, University of Glasgow, and Allin Cottrell, Wake Forest University
PART IV. ON THE PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE
On the Production of Knowledge Guglielmo Carchedi, University of Amsterdam
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PZarembka/burch.htm Research in Political Economy Supplement 1 (two volumes)
Reagan, Bush, and Right-Wing Politics: Elites, Think Tanks, Power and Policy Philip H. Burch, Rutgers University
-- Michael Pugliese