Political Economy
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Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi
$19.99 Add to cartMississippi, the poorest state in the U.S. with the highest percentage of Black people, a history of vicious racial terror and concurrent Black resistance is the backdrop and context for the drama cap
- Author: Akuno, Kali
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 11 2017
- ISBN10: 099534745X
- Language: English
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The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy
$18.95 Add to cartIn this eloquent challenge to the reigning wisdom on globalization, Dani Rodrik reminds us of the importance of the nation-state, arguing forcefully that when the social arrangements of democracies in… [more below]
- Author: Rodrik, Dani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 05 2012
- ISBN10: 0393341283
- Language: English
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The Next American Economy: Nation, State, and Markets in an Uncertain World
$30.99 Add to cartAmericans across the political spectrum have turned away from free market capitalism, calling for more government intervention into the economy. This optimistic book explains how a dynamic, Commercial
- Author: Gregg, Samuel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 164177276X
- Language: English
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Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third Worl
$19.95 Add to cartThis global environmental and political history “will redefine the way we think about the European colonial project” (Observer).
” . . . sets the triumph of the late 19th-century Western imperialism… [more below]- Series: Essential Mike Davis
- Author: Davis, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1784786624
- Language: English
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Confronting Capitalism: How the World Works and How to Change It
$24.95 Read moreA strategic guide to building a more democratic and egalitarian future
Why is our society so unequal? Why, despite their small numbers, do the rich dominate policy and politics even in democratic coun- Series: Jacobin
- Author: Chibber, Vivek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1839762705
- Language: English
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Race for the Exits: The Unraveling of Japan’s System of Social Protection
$147.50 Add to cartContrary to all expectations, Japan’s long-term recession has provoked no sustained political movement to replace the nation’s malfunctioning economic structure. The country’s basic social contract ha
- Author: Schoppa, Leonard J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 15 2005
- ISBN10: 801444330
- Language: English
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The Other America
$19.99 Add to cartIn the fifty years since it was published, The Other America has been established as a seminal work of sociology. This anniversary edition includes Michael Harrington’s essays on poverty in the 1970s … [more below]
- Author: Harrington, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: August 01 1997
- ISBN10: 068482678X
- Language: English
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Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics
$24.95 Read moreA plan to save the earth and bring the good life to all
In this thrilling and capacious book, Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass challenge the inertia of capitalism and the left alike and propose a ra- Author: Vettese, Troy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 12, 2022
- ISBN10: 1839760311
- Language: English
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Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Experience and American Prospects-Revised & Updated
$24.99 Add to cartA guide to the decline of the American empire for individuals, families and communities
The United States is in steep decline. Plagued by runaway debt, a shrinking economy, and environmental catastr
- Author: Orlov, Dmitry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0865716854
- Language: English
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Mute Compulsion: A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital
$29.95 Read moreShortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize
A new Marxist theory of the abstract and impersonal forms of power in capitalism Despite insoluble contradictions, intense volatility and fierce resistance- Author: Mau, S?ren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1839763469
- Language: English
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Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations (Version 2.0, with a New Afterword)
$25.00 Add to cart#1 New York Times Bestseller – Los Angeles Times Bestseller
One of The Wall Street Journal‘s 10 Books to Read Now – One of Kirkus Reviews‘s Best Nonfiction Books of the Year – One of Publishers Weekly- Author: Friedman, Thomas L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 1250141222
- Language: English
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How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century
$19.95 Add to cartWhat is wrong with capitalism, and how can we change it?
Capitalism has transformed the world and increased our productivity, but at the cost of enormous human suffering. Our shared values–equality a- Author: Wright, Erik Olin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1788739558
- Language: English
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Race & Economics: How Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination?
$14.95 Add to cartWalter E. Williams applies an economic analysis to the problems black Americans have faced in the past and still face in the present to show that that free-market resource allocation, as opposed to po… [more below]
- Series: Hoover Institution Press Publication
- Author: Williams, Walter E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: April 27 2011
- ISBN10: 0817912452
- Language: English
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The Economists’ Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society
$22.99 Add to cartIn this “lively and entertaining” history of ideas (Liaquat Ahamed, The New Yorker), New York Times editorial writer Binyamin Appelbaum tells the story of the people who sparked four decades of econom… [more below]
- Author: Appelbaum, Binyamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0316512346
- Language: English
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Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World
$25.99 Add to cartIn a series of mock lesson plans and a program of study Galeano provides an eloquent, passionate, funny and shocking expos of First World privileges and assumptions. From a master class in The Impuni
- Author: Galeano, Eduardo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 05 2001
- ISBN10: 0312420315
- Language: English
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Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age
$24.95 Add to cartImagine a capitalist paradise. An island utopia governed solely by the rules of the market and inspired by the fictions of Ayn Rand and Robinson Crusoe. Sound far-fetched? It may not be. The past half
- Series: Spectre
- Author: Craib, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1629639176
- Language: English
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Fantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico
$32.00 Add to cartA crucial, clear-eyed accounting of Puerto Rico’s 122 years as a colony of the US.
Since its acquisition by the US in 1898, Puerto Rico has served as a testing ground for the most aggressive and explo- Author: Morales, Ed
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 1568588992
- Language: English
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Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World
$19.99 Add to cartA San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller – An NPR Best Book of the Year
The New York Times‘s Global Economics Correspondent masterfully reveals how billionaires’ systematic plunder of the world–brazenly
- Author: Goodman, Peter S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0063078317
- Language: English
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The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class
$20.99 Read moreFollowing a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upwa… [more below]
- Author: Kotkin, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1641772840
- Language: English
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Economics Reimagined: Nature, Progress, and Living Standards
$19.99 Add to cartWhat goes on in the economy is important to everyone, yet often baffling. This book-Economics Reimagined: Nature, Progress, and Living Standards-explains many mysteries of economics, for example:
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- Author: Teller, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: November 08 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988307709
- Language: English
