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Book SynopsisNew York Times BestsellerNew York Times reporter and “Corner Office” columnist David Gelles reveals legendary GE CEO Jack Welch to be the root of all that’s wrong with capitalism today and offers advice on how we might right those wrongs. In 1981, Jack Welch took over General Electric and quickly rose to fame as the first celebrity CEO. He golfed with presidents, mingled with movie stars, and was idolized for growing GE into the most valuable company in the world. But Welch’s achievements didn’t stem from some greater intelligence or business prowess. Rather, they were the result of a sustained effort to push GE’s stock price ever higher, often at the expense of workers, consumers, and innovation. In this captivating, revelatory book, David Gelles argues that Welch single-handedly ushered in a new, cutthroat era of American capitalism that continues to this day. Gelles chronicles Welch’s campaign to vaporize hundreds of thousands of jobs in a bid to boost profits, eviscerating the country’s manufacturing base, and destabilizing the middle class. Welch’s obsession with downsizing—he eliminated 10% of employees every year—fundamentally altered GE and inspired generations of imitators who have employed his strategies at other companies around the globe. In his day, Welch was corporate America’s leading proponent of mergers and acquisitions, using deals to gobble up competitors and giving rise to an economy that is more concentrated and less dynamic. And Welch pioneered the dark arts of “financialization,” transforming GE from an admired industrial manufacturer into what was effectively an unregulated bank. The finance business was hugely profitable in the short term and helped Welch keep GE’s stock price ticking up. But ultimately, financialization undermined GE and dozens of other Fortune 500 companies. Gelles shows how Welch’s celebrated emphasis on increasing shareholder value by any means necessary (layoffs, outsourcing, offshoring, acquisitions, and buybacks, to name but a few tactics) became the norm in American business generally. He demonstrates how that approach has led to the greatest socioeconomic inequality since the Great Depression and harmed many of the very companies that have embraced it. And he shows how a generation of Welch acolytes radically transformed companies like Boeing, Home Depot, Kraft Heinz, and more. Finally, Gelles chronicles the change that is now afoot in corporate America, highlighting companies and leaders who have abandoned Welchism and are proving that it is still possible to excel in the business world without destroying livelihoods, gutting communities, and spurning regulation.

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Book SynopsisTHE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Galvanizing and uplifting' The Guardian'Bernie Sanders has changed US politics forever' Owen JonesIt's OK to be angry about capitalism. It's OK to want something better. Bernie Sanders takes on the 1% and speaks blunt truths about a system that is fuelled by uncontrolled greed, and rigged against ordinary people. Where a handful of oligarchs have never had it so good, with more money than they could spend in a thousand lifetimes, and the vast majority struggle to survive. Where a decent standard of living for all seems like an impossible dream.How can we accept an economic order that allows three billionaires to control more wealth than the bottom half of our society? How can we accept a political system that allows the super-rich to buy elections and politicians? How can we accept an energy system that rewards the fossil fuel corporations causing the climate crisis? How can we let it happen any longer? We must demand fundamental economic and political change. This is where the path forward begins.It's OK To Be Angry About Capitalism presents a vision of what would be possible if the political revolution took place. If we would finally recognize that economic rights are human rights, and work to create a society that provides them. This isn't some utopian fantasy; this is democracy as we should know it. Is it really too much to ask?Trade ReviewAn attack on the status quo from every conceivable direction ... galvanising and uplifting ... Precisely because Sanders is such a straightforward thinker and writer, he insists on some facts that the political establishment - on both sides - wilfully ignores. * The Guardian *I can't wait until everybody reads this book... it's like holding a little piece of hope in your hands. -- Emma DabiriBernie Sanders opens his latest book with a compelling thought: conventional wisdom says you get more conservative in politics as you grow older, but he finds himself going the opposite direction. The 81-year-old writes exactly how he speaks - with passion and in his signature blunt style ... The book embodies Sanders' politics. -- Prudence Wade * The Independent *Sanders lays forth a well-reasoned platform of programs to retool the American economy for greater equity ... the plutocrats might want to take cover. * Kirkus *Our favorite democratic socialist ... Yes, it is okay to be angry about capitalism, and it's even better to do something about it. -- Yaseen Al-Sheikh * Jacobin *A noble purpose ... a powerful new book. -- Charles Kaiser * The Guardian *Reality keeps endorsing Bernie Sanders. Pass it on. -- Naomi KleinA message of hope and courage - that collective action can rid the world of injustice. -- Owen JonesGives us a glimpse of what politics could be like. -- Yanis VaroufakisOnly Bernie Sanders can break the power of capitalism. -- Paul MasonA decent, honest person. It's pretty unusual in the political system. -- Noam ChomskySanders' success today shows that much of America is tired of rising inequality and these so-called political changes and intends to revive both a progressive agenda and the American tradition of egalitarianism. -- Thomas Piketty

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Book SynopsisExamines the ways in which the American model is being imposed on the world, and outlines its economic and political consequences.Trade Review"Amin is both a real-world social scientist and a revolutionary socialist." Review of Radical Political EconomyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Liberal Vision of Society 2. The Ideological and Para-Theoretical Foundations of Liberalism 3. The Consequences: Really-Existing Globalized Liberalism 4. The Origins of Liberalism 5. The Challenge of Liberalism Today Works Cited in the Text Index

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Book SynopsisThe first book of the next crisis. A history of interest rates by a leading financial commentator, updated with a new postscript.*Winner of the 2023 Hayek Book Prize**Longlisted for the 2022 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award*All economic and financial activities take place across time. Interest coordinates these activities. The story of capitalism is thus the story of interest: the price that individuals, companies and nations pay to borrow money.In The Price of Time, Edward Chancellor traces the history of interest from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia, through debates about usury in Restoration Britain and John Law ' s ill-fated Mississippi scheme, to the global credit booms of the twenty-first century. We generally assume that high interest rates are harmful, but Chancellor argues that, whenever money is too easy, financial markets become unstable. He takes the story to the present day, when interest rates have sunk lower than at any time in the five millennia since they were first recorded - including the extraordinary appearance of negative rates in Europe and Japan - and highlights how this has contributed to profound economic insecurity and financial fragility.Chancellor reveals how extremely low interest rates not only create asset price inflation but are also largely responsible for weak economic growth, rising inequality, zombie companies, elevated debt levels and the pensions crises that have afflicted the West in recent years - conditions under which economies cannot possibly thrive. At the same time, easy money in China has inflated an epic real estate bubble, accompanied by the greatest credit and investment boom in history. As the global financial system edges closer to yet another crisis, Chancellor shows that only by understanding interest can we hope to face the challenges ahead.Trade ReviewThe Price of Time is highly readable. The timing and telling of this economic horror story make it gripping and persuasive. -- Emma Duncan * The Times *Is it possible to write a highly engaging history of the world going back to Hammurabi, unfolding along the way a bitingly comprehensive explanation for its problems today, all told through a single character? Apparently yes. Edward Chancellor has done it, an achievement all the more notable since his drama is built around a character so unheroic on its surface: his "price of time" is interest rates. This is a timely, vitally important and hugely readable book. -- Ruchir Sharma * Chairman, Rockefeller International and New York Times bestselling author *Edward Chancellor has produced not just a brilliant explainer of the value of money and time but a hugely engaging history of the greatest problem confronting markets today. The Price of Time is a must read - a copy should be on the desk of everyone who has anything to do with financial markets or wondered why things work as they do. -- Merryn Somerset Webb * Editor-in-Chief, MoneyWeek *In Chancellor's terrific new book The Price of Time, he argues that well-meaning attempts by central bankers to manage interest rates have brought disaster ... It is no mean task to turn such a dry topic into a lively read, but Chancellor pulls it off. This is not just a worthy successor to his history of financial speculation, Devil Take the Hindmost, but an urgently needed warning. Rock-bottom interest rates were imposed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, and have now lasted so long that they have started to seem almost tolerable. To read this book is to be reacquainted with the bizarre, Alice-in-Wonderland condition of modern finance. ... Anyone who wants a fresh perspective on today's problems - and anyone in Westminster hoping to chart a new economic course as Boris Johnson's successor - needs this book on their summer reading list. -- Marc Sidwell * Sunday Telegraph *Interest rates haven't simply fallen - they were pushed. And by their pushing, the world's central banks have constructed the hall of mirrors in which every investor has become, of necessity, a speculator. So argues Edward Chancellor in this brilliant chronicle of the most important prices in capitalism. You must read it. It is a masterpiece of history, analysis-and properly understated outrage. -- James Grant * editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer *I wish The Price of Time were the book that I had written. I am reminded of Keynes' letter to Hayek after reading The Road to Serfdom where he said "In my opinion it is a grand book. We all have the greatest reason to be thankful to you for saying so well what needs so much to be said. .... I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it, and not only in agreement but in a deeply moved agreement" -- William White * former Chief Economist, Bank for International Settlements *Besides being a first-rate economic historian, Chancellor is also a master wordsmith; almost unique among serious finance books, The Price of Time serves well as bedtime reading. ... More than 20 years ago, Edward Chancellor's Devil Take the Hindmost supplied readers with one of the most engaging and incisive descriptions of financial manias ever written. That was a hard act to follow, but The Price of Time nicely fills the bill; it is a serious work of political economy that is part comprehensive guide to the world financial system's greatest peril and part literary chocolate torte. -- William J. Bernstein * Enterprising Investor, Chartered Financial Analysts Institute *Well I'll be darned! Chancellor has done the nearly impossible: he has made a potentially dreary topic - interest rates - into a witty, philosophical and highly entertaining story crammed with historical anecdotes starting with the Babylonians and ending yesterday. At the same time the obvious weight and breadth of his research leads us to his important conclusion: for Heaven's Sake leave interest rates to market forces; manipulation by Central Banks leads to chain linked disasters, another of which may well be imminent. -- Jeremy Grantham, Founder and Chief Investment Strategist, GMO LLCa scholarly perspective of the history of interest and credit since their known origins in ancient Mesopotamia ... a rollicking read in comparison with Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century ... The Price of Time is leavened throughout by touches of humour and an eye for historical curiosities drawn from a huge range of sources. -- Martin Vander Weyer * Spectator *the book is magisterial in its scope. He describes the reasons for the current distortion of the markets and why wealth and income disparity were so pronounced in the last 20 years. He lays blame on the Federal Reserve and central banks around the world distorting the markets with low interest rates. You'll want to buy this book and get it the first day available. -- John Mauldin * Thoughts from the Frontline *Edward Chancellor argues that low interest rates, of the sort that prevailed since the financial crisis and until this year, are a catastrophic mistake because, as the great financial journalist Walter Bagehot wrote, they lead people to "invest their savings in something impossible - a canal to Kamchatka, a railway to Watchet, a plan for animating the Dead Sea, a corporation for shipping skates to the Torrid Zone". Cryptocurrencies are the Kamchatka canals of today. Their collapse, in Chancellor's view, is just the beginning of a great unravelling. The book is persuasive, perfectly timed and, for a work on such a nerdy subject, gripping. -- Emma Duncan * Times Writers’ Favourite Books of 2022 *a blistering polemic against the evils of artificially low interest rates. Right on cue, the gravy train of ultra-loose monetary policy has come to a halt. Perhaps you should therefore not just buy this book but sell all your stocks ... The Price of Time addresses the biggest economic question of the past 15 years. Have the experimental monetary policies pursued by the world's leading central banks since the financial crisis of 2007 and 2008 been a miracle cure or an epochal mistake? It situates this contemporary dilemma in a rich historical context. For this is just the latest instalment of an ancient debate over the nature and role of interest in a well-functioning economy. ... Capital allocation has been distorted; investment risk mispriced; pensions systems destabilised; social mobility fossilised; and moderate investors polarised into idle rent-seekers or you-only-live-once speculators. Chancellor makes a compelling and disturbing case that excessively loose financial conditions lie behind them all. ... The carnage being wrought by even the modest increase in borrowing costs so far in 2022 is not encouraging. At least if you've read this scintillating book and heeded the infamous Chancellor signal, you'll know what needs doing when we emerge from the wreckage. -- Felix Martin * Reuters *Chancellor's panoptic survey of the history of interest, and what classical economists said about it, will not fail to dazzle * Economist *a sweeping historical analysis of how our financial system once again became untethered from the world it is supposed to serve. At the heart of such derangement, Chancellor argues, is a single factor: artificially low interest rates. As he reminds us, interest rates are the most important signal in a market-based economy, "the universal price" affecting all others. Interest is best defined as the time value of money, which Chancellor artfully renders as "the price of time." It is the price that informs every key financial decision-saving, spending, investing. Suppressing the rate of interest is a powerful way to boost an economy otherwise bound for recession, but it is a dangerous one. It is to finance what opiates are to medicine, a distortion of perception disguised as a cure. ... Chancellor's learned and engrossing history concludes with a somber warning. Compared with more heavy-handed forms of government intrusion, central bankers' manipulation of interest rates may seem rather innocuous, and it is much less likely to provoke howling objections from ordinary citizens. But more than any other, it threatens the efficiency and integrity of the free-enterprise system. Behind the price of time is the priceless right of freedom. -- Adam Rowe * Wall Street Journal *every bit as gripping as any science fiction novel. It's an amazing book ... truly magisterial in scope -- John Mauldin * Thoughts from the Frontline *Superb! A worthy successor to Devil Take the Hindmost. -- William Bernstein * author of The Delusion of Crowds *Praise for Devil Take the Hindmost * --- *An admirably researched and very well written account of speculative insanity from the earliest times to, let no one doubt, the present. -- J.K. GalbraithEntertaining, useful, admirable scholarship... Chancellor seems to have read everything. -- New York Times Book ReviewPraise for Crunch-Time for Credit? -- ---There was no single, dominant, astonishing voice in the wilderness in the debate on the credit crunch, but... Edward Chancellor, an economic historian, foresaw almost everything. -- Charles Moore * Daily Telegraph *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“When Wall Street, world governments, and radical activists join forces in the name of ‘saving the planet,’ there can only be one goal: they get richer, while everyone else gets poorer. You Will Own Nothing is a well-researched and well-written wakeup call to everyone who wants to make sure that this does not happen.” — MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER, founder and president of Environmental Progress and bestselling author of San Fransicko and Apocalypse Never “If you don’t want to lose everything, own nothing, and live on a diet of bugs, then buy Carol Roth’s You Will Own Nothing—your battle plan for surviving the war with the new financial world order.” — DANA LOESCH, host of the nationally syndicated Dana Show and bestselling author “When it comes to who really rules the world and what kind of future they are shaping for the rest of us, so many things whispered and dismissed over the years have come into clear and undeniable focus. It’s not enough to know what’s happening and simply complain. Carol has laid out a plan for how to fight back and win.” — CHARLES PAYNE, CEO of Wall Street Strategies and television anchor

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Book SynopsisA collection of writings from one of the anti-Apartheid struggle's major revolutionary public intellectualsTrade Review'A treasure chest for all opponents of racism and capitalism, introducing key writings of the late South African revolutionary Neville Alexander on the workings of racial capitalism in his country. More than that, it shows us Alexander the grassroots organizer for liberation. Throughout these pages, we encounter a great radical thinker profoundly committed to changing the world. This is a vital resource in the struggle for global justice.' -- David McNally, Director of the Project on Race and Capitalism, University of Houston'Amidst all this talk of racial capitalism and abolition, there is one thinker we should all be reading: Neville Alexander. He is a revolutionary intellectual for our times and for our planet. For anyone committed to abolishing, not just studying, racial capitalism, this is the book to read.' -- Robin D. G. Kelley, author of 'Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination''Understanding and dismantling racial capitalism is one of the foremost challenges of our time. Not too often seen by international audiences is the brilliant work of South African revolutionary, anti-Apartheid activist, intellectual, and 10-year political prisoner, Neville Alexander. This amazing collection remedies that.' -- Steven J. Klees, Professor of International Education Policy, University of Maryland'Both profound and provocative. Grounded in history, engaged with revolutionary theory, and informed by a lifetime of practice, Neville’s intellectual acuity and passion for freedom shine through in every page. Read, learn, and join the growing global struggle 'Against Racial Capitalism', and for the just future that Alexander dreamed of and fought for.' -- Barbara Ransby, historian, writer, longtime activist, author of 'Making All Black Lives Matter''Much of the contemporary debate around racial capitalism owes an acknowledged debt to Neville Alexander’s path-breaking interventions in the midst of the South African anti-apartheid struggle. This new collection of writings, superbly curated by Salim Vally and Enver Motala, reveals the extraordinary relevance of Neville’s thought for activists and scholars today.' -- Adam Hanieh, Professor of Political Economy and Global Development, University of Exeter'By reading writings like these, we Palestinians can learn from the South African condition in recognizing apartheid as both a system of institutionalized racial discrimination and a system of racial capitalism. A must-read for all those believing in a future vision of a secular-democratic state in Palestine that is based on a critical understanding of the limits and pitfalls of transformation in post-apartheid South Africa.' -- Professor Haidar Eid, al-Aqsa University, Gaza, Occupied Palestine'Thoughtfully honours the writing and legacy of Neville Alexander and, in doing so, powerfully offers us coordinates for making a just society. In compiling this book, Salim Vally and Enver Motala inspire us all to continue Alexander’s profound work for racial justice.' -- Arathi Sriprakash, author of 'Learning Whiteness: education and the settler colonial state''Thanks to the tireless work of his comrades Salim Vally and Enver Motala, Neville Alexander’s moment is upon us. These careful selections from a half century of speeches and writings, many available here for the first time, are a crucial resource for activists mobilizing against racial capitalism today. This volume is destined to become a classic.' -- Professor Zachary Levenson, University of Texas at Austin, author of 'Delivery as Dispossession: Land Occupation and Eviction in the Postapartheid City''In our times of rising global fascism and predatory capitalism, Neville Alexander’s writings provide us with insightful ways of thinking through and beyond the present, and a must read for all of us who share his commitment to 'non-dogmatic Marxism and internationalism'.' -- Mario Novelli, Professor in the Political Economy of Education, University of Sussex'Powerfully reignites the contributions of Neville Alexander and left organisations including the Black consciousness movement in South Africa, at precisely the moment when we most need its inspiration. Scholars, students, and activists committed to liberation struggles have much to learn from the writings of one of the most significant revolutionary intellectuals of the last century.' -- Antonia Darder, Professor Emerita, Loyola Marymount University'This must-read, expertly curated by Salim Vally and Enver Motala, offers a genealogy of Alexander’s political thought, insightful scholarship, and engaged praxis vis-à-vis issues of racial capitalism, multilingualism, education and more.Timely and relevant for scholars and activists concerned with advancing justice around the globe.' -- Monisha Bajaj, Professor of International & Multicultural Education, University of San Francisco'Neville Alexander’s imaginative work remains profoundly relevant, both to comprehend the pervasive crises of our times and to produce new revolutionary politics and praxes.' -- Professor Noor Nieftagodien, Head of History Workshop, Wits University'Situates Neville Alexander where he belongs, among the great revolutionaries of the 20th century. In Alexander’s political teachings, we discover strategies for the necessary work of challenging the oppressive racial capitalist order and, through his life of struggle, we inherit a model of radical intellectualism, which refuses the false boundaries between theory and praxis. An essential guide for all who are struggling toward liberated futures.' -- Krystal Strong, assistant professor of Black Studies, Rutgers University'Whether the topic is education, race, housing, employment, displacement, violence, Neville Alexander’s beautiful writing patiently connects theory and method with purpose. Conceived in the volatile conjunctures of South Africa’s long struggle for self-determination, 'Against Racial Capitalism' is absolutely necessary for all who struggle to understand and change 21st century conditions.' -- Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author 'Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation''The lucid writings of Neville Alexander - socialist, pan Africanist, internationalist, revolutionary – are charted against the history of the unfolding liberation struggle in South Africa. Essential reading.' -- Pam Christie, Emeritus Professor at the University of Cape Town'Neville Alexander blazed a path among scholars and activists in understanding the entanglements of class and race. This rich collection traces his incisive commentaries as he insisted that theory as well as political action be rooted in the struggle to transform society in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa.' -- Joel Samoff, Center for African Studies, Stanford University'Essential' -- 'Boston Review'Table of ContentsPreface by Karen Press Timeline: Key events in the life and times of Neville Alexander Introduction by Salim Vally and Enver Motala Part I: Prison Writings: ‘The University of Robben Island’ 1964-1974 Part II: Reaping the Whirlwind: the 1980s Part III: The Transition to Democracy: 1990 to 1994 Part IV: Post-1994 essays, talks and articles Bibliography

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Book SynopsisA history of the PR industry, and how it has shaped and corrupted politics.Trade Review'Of all the transcendent powers that shape our modern lives, propaganda is the most powerful and insidious. This brilliant, original book reveals the secret truth about so-called public relations and should be required reading on every curriculum' -- John PilgerTable of Contents1. The cutting edge of corporate power 2. Public Relations: The Zelig complex 3. The hidden history of corporate propaganda, 1911-1930 4. The second wave of corporate propaganda, 1936-1950 5. The case for capitalism - the third wave, to the 1980s 6. The real rulers of the world 7. The global PR industry 8. Pulling Labour's teeth 9. Blair and the business lobby 10. Cameron and the neocons 11. Conclusion : Communication and power Notes Index

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Book SynopsisFrom the author of The Shifts and the Shocks, and one of the most influential writers on economics, a reckoning with how and why the relationship between democracy and capitalism is coming undone We are living in an age when economic failings have shaken faith in global capitalism. Political failings have undermined trust in liberal democracy and in the very notion of truth. The ties that ought to bind open markets to free and fair elections are being strained and rejected, even in democracy''s notional heartlands. Around the world, democratic capitalism, which depends on the determined separation of power from wealth, is in crisis. Some now argue that capitalism is better without democracy; others that democracy is better without capitalism.This book is a forceful rejoinder to both views. It analyses how the marriage between capitalism and democracy has become so fraught and yet insists that a divorce would be an almost unimaginable calamity. Martin Wolf, one of the wisest public voices on global affairs, argues that for all its recent failings - slowing growth, increasing inequality, widespread popular disillusion - democratic capitalism, though inherently fragile, remains the best system we know for human flourishing. Capitalism and democracy are complementary opposites: they need each other if either is to thrive. Wolf''s superb exploration of their marriage shows us how citizenship and a shared faith in the common good are not romantic slogans but the essential foundation of our economic and political freedom.Trade ReviewMartin Wolf has been an incisive commentator on economics and politics for a long time. This book is an excellent and thought-provoking synthesis of his views on democratic capitalism and how to fix it. -- Ben Bernanke, former chair of the Federal ReserveMartin Wolf is one of the deepest thinkers of our times and his latest book is a must-read! He brilliantly analyzes the causes of current crisis of democratic capitalism and presents the reforms needed to successfully rejuvenate it. He rightly calls for a new alliance of reformed democratic capitalist states to protect global peace, inclusive prosperity and the planet against plutocratic populism and tyranny. Hopefully, his words will be carefully read and heeded. -- Nouriel Roubini, Professor, New York UniversityMartin Wolf is a great humanist and a sharp analytical mind. He unfurls here a bracing indictment of democratic capitalism and an inspiring defense of it. To defend the values of freedom and dignity, democracy and capitalism must both be reformed. A necessary book- and a guide -- for our times -- Daniel Ziblatt, Professsor, Harvard University and co-author of HOW DEMOCRACIES DIEMartin Wolf brings together many decades' worth of thought and analysis into this superb synthesis. An important guide for anyone seeking answers to the most difficult questions of our time. -- Anne Applebaum, Atlantic staff writer and author of TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACYMartin Wolf is our wisest, most acute, and most experienced commentator. He has long been an optimist, but no more. He believes that today's market economy is no longer compatible with a stable liberal democracy. As Plato long ago warned, insecurity and fear can be the gateways to tyranny. Wolf's recommendations are smart and sensible and perhaps not too late. A must read for both optimists and pessimists. -- Sir Angus Deaton, Nobel Prize in Economics 2015Martin Wolf has written the definitive account of what ails capitalism and democracy. This staggeringly erudite and beautifully written book is sure to become required reading for anybody who wants to understand how democratic capitalism slid into a deep crisis, why it is worth rescuing, and how to do so. -- Yascha Mounk, Professor, Johns Hopkins University and author of THE GREAT EXPERIMENTThe arrival of this book could not be timelier as the global economy darkens further. Who better than Martin Wolf, with his masterful knowledge of history and understanding of economics, to identify the twin threats of predatory capitalism and demagogic politics and to plot a narrow corridor to escape? It takes someone with a knowledge of the entire forest to isolate the rot at the base of the trees. -- Carmen M. Reinhart, Professor of Economics, Harvard UniversityPassionate, alarmed, wise: Martin Wolf has poured his soul into the book that may be recognized as his masterpiece. In it, he confronts the disturbing truths dismissed by his own complacent generation, and their consequences, with which the young will contend. -- Sir Paul Collier, author of THE FUTURE OF CAPITALISMThe Crisis of Democratic Capitalism will reach a wide and powerful audience. It will be read by world leaders and CEOs. If it convinces some of them to change tack, away from the plutocratic path that national and international economies are currently on, then we should all be grateful. -- William Davies * New Statesman *a cri de coeur ... This book, impressively researched, is ... a mine of information for anybody wanting to know about the forces driving the global economy in recent decades ... Democracy is the worst form of government - except for all the others, as Churchill once said. And the same is true of capitalism relative to other forms of economic organisation. Fixing both is the task. -- David Smith * Sunday Times *The book's power lies in Wolf's central perception and the scale of the canvas he uses to illustrate it. The problems he describes - inequality, lack of social mobility, slowing productivity gains, the influence of money over politics, disaffection with democracy - are familiar, but by identifying them collectively as causes of the calamity he foresees, he gives new urgency to the need to address them. -- Emma Duncan * The Times *Martin Wolf is one of the world's most influential economists ... His new book, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism, is both his magnum opus and an explanation of his crisis of faith. ... Wolf argues that democracy and capitalism are complementary opposites: Opposites because capitalism depends on inequality of rewards while democracy depends on political equality, complementary because they both enshrine the principle of individual choice. But in recent decades this marriage of opposites has been falling apart, most importantly in the supposed standard-bearer of democratic capitalism, the United States. ... a penetrating analysis of Western society's ills -- Adrian Wooldridge * Bloomberg *The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism draws on the wisdom accumulated over his distinguished career... The case he makes is authoritative and compelling. * Economist *The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism will reach a wide and powerful audience. It will be read by world leaders and CEOs. If it convinces some of them to change tack, away from the plutocratic path that national and international economies are currently on, then we should all be grateful. -- William Davies * New Statesman *Martin Wolf shines a light on the doom loop of democratic capitalism ... in his fine new book -- Bill Emmott * Financial Times *

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Book SynopsisA magisterial history of the astounding rise - and unimaginable fall - of America''s most iconic corporationPerhaps no company reflects American ingenuity, innovation, and industrial fortunes as well as the iconic General Electric Company. Producing storied leaders and almost every product imaginable, GE built a cult of success that hid cracks in its foundation. In this masterful history, William D. Cohan, one of America''s most pre-eminent financial journalists, argues that GE''s legacy is both a paragon and a cautionary tale through which to understand twentieth-century America.Power Failure limns the eventful 130-year history of GE, bringing fresh analysis drawn from rare interviews with key figures of the company''s golden era, including Jack Welch himself. As Cohan recounts, Welch traded on a sterling legacy to make GE the most valuable and respected company in the world, while cloaking its vulnerabilities. What he handed to his successor Jeffrey Immelt was, Cohan argues, both an impossible standard and a more troubled reality.Tracing the company''s leaps and stumbles through the personalities that defined it, Power Failure offers a surprising retelling of the GE story, puncturing the myth we think we know for a fresh look at its legacy - and what it tells us about the state of the financial world.Trade ReviewThis hubris-to-nemesis story... must count as one of the greatest dramas in business history... William D Cohan captures that drama exceptionally well... a gripping read.... a tour de force -- John Plender * Financial Times *The rise and fall of GE is explained as the product of individual men and their mercurial decisions, yet its fate has a wider significance. It ought to be a warning: cost-cutting, outsourcing and financial speculation produce a warped model of value that is liable to collapse -- Hettie O'Brien * Guardian *A heavyweight cautionary tale about how the reputation of one-time corporate titans such as Jack Welch can be floored by over-reach and ambition -- Andrew Hill * Financial Times *General Electric was once the most important, powerful and influential company on earth - and this is the definitive story of how it got that way, and what happened next. William Cohan takes us inside the company's boardrooms and factories with a rollicking and fascinating tale of corporate brilliance, bitter infighting, business daring and monied folly that illuminates not just General Electric, but the world and economy it helped create -- Charles DuhiggWith the sweep and authority of an accomplished historian, the digging of a fearsome investigative reporter, and the storytelling skills of a novelist, Bill Cohan takes us from the 19th Century birth of GE, to its rise as America's most valued company in the 20th, and to its near death in the 21st. With incredible access to Jack Welch and the major actors in this drama, he paints a panoramic view of America and of capitalism, how it has changed and still must -- Ken AulettaCohan rides this wild tale like a racehorse to the bitter end. It's all here: the birth of this most American of inventive American companies and the triumphs, flaws and missteps to come. If at 130 years old, GE has indeed fallen, this masterful work remains -- Mark SealFor most of our lives GE was one of the familiar, trusted U.S. companies, and in the early 2000s still the biggest company on earth. In one generation this icon of the American corporate imperium has turned into an icon of American corporate failure. We're fortunate that the great business chronicler William Cohan has now applied his extraordinary reporting skills and lucid, knowing prose to tell this story in breathtaking detail from beginning to bitter end. Power Failure is fascinating and definitive -- Kurt AndersonThis epic tale of arguably the most dominant corporation in American history has it all: money, power, sex and larger-than-life characters, from Thomas Edison to "Teflon Jack" Welch and beyond. Cohan's fine pacing and narrative flair make for a page-turner that becomes a compelling story of American capitalism itself -- Jonathan AlterPower Failure by William Cohan is a tour de force of reporting, a deeply researched chronicle of the flawed personalities and dysfunctional company politics that led General Electric, once hailed as the great American corporate success, to self-destruct. The story reads like a tragedy -- Liaquat Ahamed

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Book Synopsis''One of the most influential economists in the world'' WiredEven before the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, capitalism was stuck. It had no answers to a host of problems, including disease, inequality, the digital divide and, perhaps most blatantly, the environmental crisis. Taking her inspiration from the ''moonshot'' programmes which successfully co-ordinated public and private sectors on a massive scale, Mariana Mazzucato calls for the same level of boldness and experimentation to be applied to the biggest problems of our time. We must, she argues, rethink the capacities and role of government within the economy and society, and above all recover a sense of public purpose. Mission Economy, whose ideas are already being adopted around the world, offers a way out of our impasse to a more optimistic future.Trade ReviewThe case for a new approach is overwhelming and Mariana Mazzucato's project is ambitious ... Mission Economy injects the kind of vision, ambition and imagination so desperately missing from government today ... All those in favour of a better future - of prosperity that is broadly shared, first class public services to be enjoyed by all, and a solution to the climate crisis - should read this book. -- Tom Kibasi * The Guardian *One of the most agile thinkers on post-Brexit, post-Covid Britain. -- Alex Brummer * Daily Mail *a wider and more radical critique of modern capitalism ... Mazzucato is a fantastic example of a charismatic policy entrepreneur having a real impact ... Mazzucato rightly shows that the state can rise to grand challenges and set ambitious missions. -- David Willetts * Research Professional News *a bracing, optimistic read -- David MilibandA timely and optimistic vision ... Mazzucato presents her arguments so simply and clearly that they can seem obvious. In fact, they are revolutionary. Rethinking the role of government nationally and in the international economy - to put public purpose first and solve the problems that matter to people - are now the central questions for humanity -- Jayati Ghosh * Nature *In Mission Economy Mariana Mazzucato argues that societies ought to abjure tired ideologies and embrace the policy approach that put astronauts on the Moon. By setting grand missions for themselves, she writes, and deploying the power of the state in practical ways, they can become more prosperous and equitable ... Mazzucato is an Italian-born economist of a heterodox bent, whose work has long challenged standard economic thinking about the role of markets and government in generating innovation ... compelling ... arresting * Economist *'This book is by an influential thinker on an important topic at a time when trust in direction by governments has risen greatly relative to trust in decentralised competition within markets. Mazzucato recommends goal-oriented innovation as the way forward for the world.' -- Martin Wolf * Financial Times *Mission Economy proposes that we need to corral the state's energies into risky moonshots-just as JFK did with space travel. The mission then needs translating into a target whose achievement can be monitored. According to ex-Bank of England governor Mark Carney, the missing ingredient in economics is morality. * Prospect *

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Book SynopsisAn essential primer on capitalism, politics and how the world works, based on the hugely popular undergraduate lecture series ''What is Politics?''Is there an alternative to capitalism? In this landmark text Chomsky and Waterstone chart a critical map for a more just and sustainable society.''Covid-19 has revealed glaring failures and monstrous brutalities in the current capitalist system. It represents both a crisis and an opportunity. Everything depends on the actions that people take into their own hands.''How does politics shape our world, our lives and our perceptions? How much of ''common sense'' is actually driven by the ruling classes'' needs and interests? And how are we to challenge the capitalist structures that now threaten all life on the planet? Consequences of Capitalism exposes the deep, often unseen connections between neoliberal ''common sense'' and structural power. In making these linkages, we see how the current hegemony keeps social justice movements divided and marginalized. And, most importantly, we see how we can fight to overcome these divisions.Trade ReviewNoam Chomsky is indispensable. Just as it is impossible to imagine appreciating the dramatic arts without learning Shakespeare, or loving jazz trumpet without an appreciation of Louis Armstrong, it is inconceivable that one might study contemporary political thought without reading Chomsky * Los Angeles Review of Books *

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Book Synopsis''It''s often said that books are compulsory reading, but this book really is compulsory. You cannot understand slavery, or British Empire, without it'' Sathnam Sanghera Arguing that the slave trade was at the heart of Britain''s economic progress, Eric Williams''s landmark 1944 study revealed the connections between capitalism and racism, and has influenced generations of historians ever since.Williams traces the rise and fall of the Atlantic slave trade through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to show how it laid the foundations of the Industrial Revolution, and how racism arose as a means of rationalising an economic decision. Most significantly, he showed how slavery was only abolished when it ceased to become financially viable, exploding the myth of emancipation as a mark of Britain''s moral progress.''Its thesis is a starting point for a new generation of scholarship'' New YorkerTrade ReviewA classic critique * Guardian *Groundbreaking * New York Review of Books *A landmark study * Wall Street Journal *It's often said that books are compulsory reading, but this book really is compulsory. You cannot understand slavery, or British Empire, without it. -- Sathnam Sanghera * author of Empireland *This book, recommended to me by a Jamaican fellow-student in 1968, changed my view of the world. It was the first time I was brought up hard and fast, face to face, with how modern Britain developed off the back of the transatlantic slave trade and the wealth created from the labour of slavery -- Michel RosenThe slave trade built capital for the slave-owning Empire, on which the Industrial Revolution was formed. The slave trade was abolished not because of moral outrage but because of a decline in returns. Slavery and capitalism are linked, and Williams launches a full frontal attack on it in this classic, which first appeared almost a century ago. Essential reading for anyone who wishes to know more about the Caribbean. -- Monique Roffey * author of The Mermaid of Black Conch *Wherever you stand on the legacies of slavery and colonialism, Williams' elegant, passionate analysis is simply inescapable. Essential reading for anyone who really cares about history. -- Trevor PhillipsA vital, urgent read. A forensic examination of the system behind systemic racism. Eric Williams succinctly sets out how racism, and all its implications, injustices and inhumanities, was a harrowing repercussion of slavery, invented as a justification for lining a few dead men's pockets -- Nick Hayes * author of Trespass *There can be no effective understanding of modernity and the post-colonial world without an engagement with Eric Williams' Capitalism and Slavery. This is where the rubber hits the road. -- Prof. Sir Hilary Beckles, Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West IndiesNo historian of colonialism or slavery can ignore Eric Williams. This book endures as a seminal moment in the historiography of the British Empire -- Michael Taylor * author of The Interest *Groundbreaking and inspiring - a gripping, brilliantly original analysis of British slavery, racism, and the enduring legacies of imperialism -- Fara Dabhoiwala, Princeton UniversitySince Capitalism and Slavery was first published some eighty years ago, no writer on the subject has been able to ignore it. It is a true classic -- Hakim Adi, University of Chichester * author of Pan-Africanism: A History *A superb book about the history of the transatlantic slave trade that basically became a manifesto for the independence of Williams's own country ... Williams is an extraordinary figure, particularly if you're interested in the way certain kinds of observations of injustice can motivate research by historians that, ultimately, lead to massive political change. -- William A. Pettigrew, Professor of History, Lancaster UniversityFew books stand the test of time and remain a catalyst for continuing historiographical debate. Capitalism and Slavery on all accounts is one of these rare books. -- Anthony Bogues, Asa Messer Professor of Humanities & Critical Theory and Inaugural Director of the Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice, Brown UniversityCapitalism and Slavery sparked a scholarly conversation that has yet to die down. In many ways, the debates it generated are more vibrant now than ever and promise to be a lasting touchstone for historians well into the future. -- Guy Emerson Mount, assistant professor of African American history, Auburn University * Black Perspectives *Few works of history have exerted as powerful an influence as Capitalism and Slavery. -- Steven Mintz, Professor of History & member of the Society of American Historians, the University of Texas at AustinWilliams's masterwork is so rich with ideas and historical insights that it still speaks to today's historiography. -- Gerald Horne, Moores Professor of History and African American Studies, University of HoustonIt is a work of conceptual brilliance, intellectually mature, bold, incisive, and immensely provocative... Capitalism and Slavery will remain a historical treasure. -- Colin A. Palmer, Dodge Professor of History and African American studies at Princeton UniversityOne of the most learned, most penetrating and most significant [pieces of work] that has appeared in this field of history. -- Henry Steele Commager, Professor of History, New York UniversityEric Williams's study identifies many of the sinners and the sins committed in the building of British and global capitalism ... Capitalism and Slavery makes us stare down that history and compels us to seek redress from the relevant culpable parties -- Professor William A. Darity, Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics, Duke University

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Book SynopsisCombining microeconomics, macroeconomics, and theory with empirical analysis drawn from the US and Europe, this book introduces graduate students and advanced undergraduates to the complex process of innovation. It shows how outcomes at the microlevel feed through to the macro-outcomes that in turn determine personal incomes and job opportunities.Trade Review"[T]his textbook clearly will fill a gap in the market and is well designed to raise important questions in a student's mind. The bringing together of both micro- and macro-economic considerations, the strong treatment of statistical difficulties in analyzing these topics, and the consideration of the impact of innovation on wages and jobs are all major advances. The authors are to be congratulated."--Hazel V. J. Moir, PrometheusTable of ContentsPreface xi References xvi PART I: The Nature of Innovation 1 Chapter 1: The Nature and Importance of Innovation 3 1.1 Introduction 3 1.2 What Is Innovation? 4 1.3 The Microeconomic Effects of Innovation 9 1.4 Interaction between Producers and Users of Innovation 16 1.5 Innovations and Market Failure 17 1.6 Restoring Incentives to Invent and Innovate 23 1.7 Firms Competing through Innovation 28 1.8 Conclusion 29 References 30 Chapter 2: The Nature and Role of Intellectual Property 32 2.1 Introduction 32 2.2 Why Are Intellectual Property Rights Awarded? 32 2.3 Patents 34 2.4 Trademarks 39 2.5 Designs and Utility Models 43 2.6 Copyright 45 2.7 Further Questions about IPRs 49 2.8 Conclusions 53 References 55 Chapter 3: The Measurement of Innovation, Productivity, and Growth 57 3.1 Introduction 57 3.2 How Can Innovation Be Measured? 58 3.3 Illustrations of Innovation Statistics 64 3.4 Productivity at the Firm, Industry, and Economy Level 70 3.5 Comparing Productivity and Growth across Countries 74 3.6 Conclusion 80 References 82 PART II: The National Innovation System 85 Chapter 4: The National Innovation System 87 4.1 Introduction 87 4.2 The National Innovation System 87 4.3 The Central Role of R&D 88 4.4 The Government-University Axis 92 4.5 The University-Business Axis 95 4.6 The Government-Business Axis 103 4.7 National Innovation Systems in Emerging Markets 106 4.8 Conclusions 110 References 112 Chapter 5: Innovative Firms and Markets 116 5.1 Introduction 116 5.2 Entrepreneurship and New Firms 116 5.3 Innovation and Firms 119 5.4 Markets and Innovation 121 5.5 Empirical Evidence on the Returns to Innovation 132 5.6 Evidence on Interactions between Competition and Innovation 140 5.7 Conclusions 142 References 145 Chapter 6: Intellectual Property Rights and Firms 149 6.1 Introduction 149 6.2 How Can Firms Benefit from IPRs? 150 6.3 Exploring the Returns to IPRs 152 6.4 Markets for IPRs 157 6.5 Costs of Obtaining and Enforcing IPRs 160 6.6 IPR Strategies 162 6.7 Empirical Studies on the Value of IPRs 164 6.8 Conclusions 171 References 173 Chapter 7: Diffusion and Social Returns 177 7.1 Introduction 177 7.2 Modeling the Rate of Adoption of an Innovation 179 7.3 Statistical Evidence on Rates of Adoption 186 7.4 Spillovers and Social Returns to Innovation 190 7.5 Empirical Studies of Social Returns 199 7.6 Spatial Dimensions of Spillovers 204 7.7 Conclusions 205 References 207 PART III: The Macroeconomics of Innovation 211 Chapter 8: Models of Economic Growth 213 8.1 Introduction 213 8.2 The Neoclassical Growth Model 215 8.3 Endogenous Growth Models 225 8.4 Evolutionary and Other Models 237 8.5 Conclusions 239 References 241 Chapter 9: Innovation and Globalization 243 9.1 What Is Globalization? 243 9.2 World Trade in Historical Perspective 245 9.3 Theories of Trade and Growth 246 9.4 International Knowledge and Technology Flows: Theory and Evidence 250 9.5 International Financial Flows 256 9.6 International Aspects of IPRs 260 9.7 Conclusions 263 References 266 Chapter 10: Technology, Wages, and Jobs 268 10.1 Introduction 268 10.2 Microeconomic Models of Innovation and Labor Markets 268 10.3 Innovation and Labor Markets: Evidence from Firms 275 10.4 Macroeconomic and Trade Models of Innovation and Labor Markets 280 10.5 Conclusions 289 References 291 PART IV: Economic Policy 295 Chapter 11: Microeconomic Policies to Promote Firm-Level Innovation 297 11.1 Introduction 297 11.2 Is the Intellectual Property System Working? 297 11.3 Incentive Systems for Encouraging Firm-Level R&D 313 11.4 Other Innovation Policies 317 11.5 Conclusions 323 References 325 Chapter 12: Macroeconomic Issues and Policy 329 12.1 Introduction 329 12.2 Macroeconomic Evidence on IPRs and Economic Growth 330 12.3 Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (TRIPS) 334 12.4 Intellectual Property Rights, Exhaustion, and Parallel Imports 340 12.5 Piracy and Counterfeit 342 12.6 R&D in the Global Economy 344 12.7 International Migration of Skilled Labor 346 12.8 Conclusions 347 References 349 Mathematical Appendix 353 A.1 Production Functions 353 A.2 Present Discounted Value 354 A.3 Derivatives 355 A.4 Marginal Products and Diminishing Returns 356 A.5 Accumulation Equations and Growth Rates 357 A.6 Logarithms and Production Functions 358 A.7 Differential Equations and a Catch-up Model 358 A.8 Estimating Production Functions 359 References 360 Index 361

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Dazzlingly impressive in its scope and depth. . . . A Fabulous Failure serves as an indispensable resource to anyone, providing fresh insight into topics like the health care debacle (including a careful discussion of why Obama succeeded where Clinton failed), the NAFTA debate, and the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, all of which have been covered elsewhere. At the same time, it spotlights issues such as trade policy with Japan and workplace management that have been given short shrift by other historians."---Lily Geismer, American Prospect"In demonstrating both the internal and external limits on the Clinton administration’s ability to strengthen the welfare state, Lichtenstein and Stein have not only provided a singularly useful analysis of global capitalism at the end of the twentieth century — they have also shown how popular movements are crucial in realizing meaningful social change. . . . And in dissecting the passion play that was the Clinton administration, A Fabulous Failure provides an immensely usable history. Because the problems with which Clinton struggled — how to create growth and redistribute it in the context of a world characterized by strong economic competition — remain with us."---Jason Resnikoff, Jacobin"A progressive perspective on why the Clinton administration delivered so little." * Kirkus Reviews *"A Fabulous Failure does a marvelous job delivering on both [Clinton’s] policy and politics in a highly readable narrative."---Paul A. Myers, Myersbooks History"[A] very persuasive read."---David Marx, David Marx Book Reviews

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Book SynopsisA devastating critique of the global market paradigmTrade Review'A tour de force, one of the most devastating critiques of the global market paradigm that has been written to date. McMurtry's intellect is razor sharp and his arguments are developed and exercised with a remarkable depth and precision. This book marks McMurtry as one of the most important moral philosophers of his generation' -- Peter McLaren, Professor, University of California, Los AngelesTable of ContentsPreface PART I: THE NEW WORLD ORDER 1. Inevitability and terror: The unseen pattern 2. Return of the genocidal war 3. Decoding the global market ethic PART II: UNLOCKING THE INVISIBLE PRISON 4. Property, punishment and prisons: the origins of corporate absolutism 5. Understanding the new totalitarianism of the global market 6. The master regulators of the world system: science, technology and money capital PART III: THE PARADIGM TURN: THE LIFE ECONOMY FROM WHERE WE STAND 7. Regulating the money system for life capital 8. Preventing ecocide: making commodity cycles accountable to life standards 9. Global regulation by life standards: a rules-based international life economy for planetary survival Index

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Book SynopsisOverview of relations between the world's major powers, by a leading professor of international relationsTrade Review'I can't think of a more effective way to bring economic history back into political discussions' -- European Tribune'Kees Van Der Pijl has done a remarkable job of viewing the global rivalries in a fresh perspective of 'contender states'' -- Free Press Journal'This is a delightfully objective, fair and fearless analysis of a strife-tired world ... A strategist's collector's item' -- Tribune'Adds more punch to your repository of arguments against the ongoing mindless violence' -- The Financial Express'A remarkable panorama of both the substance and meaning of recent world history, one of those rare books that will change the way thoughtful people think. Global Rivalries is rich in insight, making coherence of disparate events, and it offers again and again fresh insights into the way our war-torn, beleaguered world has operated' -- Gabriel Kolko'Just when you thought International Relations as a field was brain-dead, along comes Kees van der Pijl's new book. His inspired account brings together history, economics and politics to create a far more nuanced view of rivalry and cooperation among the great powers over time' -- Thomas Ferguson, University of Massachusetts, Boston'A magisterial work that explains and demystifies the rivalries and conflicts which have characterised the foreign relations of the "great powers" in the modern era' -- Stephen Gill, York University, TorontoTable of Contents1. Fractures and Faultlines in the Global Political Economy 2. Integrating Atlantic Europe 3. America’s Crusade in Asia and the Euro-Atlantic Rift 4. The Spectre of Social and Economic Democracy 5. Transnational Rivalries and the Neoliberal Turn 6. From Pinochet to the Reagan Doctrine 7. The Rapallo Syndrome and the Demise of the Soviet Union 8. America over Europe in the Balkans Crisis 9. The Rise of China as the New Contender 10. Energy Conflicts in the Post-Soviet Era 11. From Human Rights to the Global State of Emergency References Index

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Book SynopsisAn intervention into the historical debate over the transition from feudalism to capitalismTrade Review'Sets a new standard in the study of the transition from feudalism to capitalism. A must for anybody interested in the transition debates' -- Michael Perelman, author of The Invention of Capitalism: Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive Accumulation'A comprehensive, critical but balanced account from a classical Marxist perspective of the entire debate and its various controversies' -- Neil Davidson'While many fantasise about an 'Empire' unified on a planetarylevel, this is a brilliant analysis of the role of national states inthe forming and functioning of capitalism' -- Domenico Losurdo, University of Urbino, author of Liberalism: A Counter-HistoryTable of ContentsPreface and acknowledgements Introduction: problems and methods 1. The Decline of feudalism 2. Experiments in capitalism: Italy, Germany, France 3. English capitalism 4. Bourgeois revolution 5. Political capitalism 6. The Industrial Revolution: Marxist perspectives 7. Capitalism and world history Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisReveals the nature of Russian capitalism following the fall of the Soviet Union, showing the impact of both Soviet bureaucracy and global capital.Trade Review'An important contribution to understanding capitalism in Russia, more than 20 years after the break-up of the USSR' -- Simon Pirani, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies'Takes a novel theoretical approach to understanding the corporate enterprise that will fundamentally change how heterodox economists will think them' -- Professor Frederic S. Lee, editor of American Journal of Economics and SociologyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Global accumulation and the capitalist world-system 2. From central planning to Capitalism 3. Russian Big Business: Corporate Governance and Time Horizon 4. Rent Withdrawal, Social Conflict and Accumulation 5. Insider Rent and Conditions of Growth in the Russian Economy 6. Accumulation of capital by Russian corporations: some empirical evidence Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisA compelling case for recognising media communications as technologies of political economy.Trade Review'Jonathan Beller powerfully addresses the most urgent issue of today's political economy: the gradual merging of capital and computation into new structures of power' -- Matteo Pasquinelli, Professor of Media Theory, University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe'Beller is one of the leading and pioneering theorists of the political economy of attention. This book is extremely pertinent for a readership seeking news ways of understanding contemporary capitalism. Beller has developed an original strategy by placing media archaeology and critical race theory in dialogue with the popularized work of Marshall McLuhan, and also by using Marx and Borges as interlocutors of well-known cyber-theorists such as Turing and Shannon' -- Allen Feldman, Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, and author of Archives of the Insensible'So-called digital culture operates on and intensifies a substrate of racial-capitalist calculation that precedes the invention of the electronic digital computer. Jonathan Beller's remarkable book examines the implications of this foundational claim through 'poetico-theoretical' analyses of information theory, literature, and cinema. By tracking the co-constitutive operations of economics, informatics, visuality, and psychology, Beller reveals the violent formations that ground contemporary mediatic regimes' -- Seb Franklin, author of Control: Digitality as Cultural LogicTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Informatics of Inscription/Inscription of Informatics 1. Gramsci’s Press: Why We Game 2. A Message from Borges: The Informatic Labyrinth 3. Alan Turing’s Self-Defense: On Not Castrating the Machines 4. Shannon/Hitchcock: Another Method for the Letters 5. The Internet of Value, by Karl Marx: Information as Cosmically Distributed Alienation Part II: Photo-graphology, Psychotic Calculus and Informatic Labor 6. Camera Obscura After All: The Racist Writing with Light 7. Pathologistics of Attention 8. Prosthetics of Whiteness: Drone Psychosis 9. The Capital of Information: Fractal Fascism, Informatic Labor and M-I-M’ Appendix: From the Cinematic Mode of Production to Computational Capital – An Interview conducted by Ante Jeric and Diana Meheik for Kulturpunk Notes Index

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Book SynopsisHow work stole our lives and what we can do about itTrade Review'A brilliant, searing exposé of the lies underpinning work' -- Owen Jones'Fascinating and absorbing ... a corrective to the widespread view that anyone can find fulfilment through their job, if they just work hard enough' -- Grace Blakeley, editor of 'Futures of Socialism' (Verso, 2020)‘Amelia Horgan is, in the words of organizer Fred Ross, a social arsonist. Her book will set your world on fire. Somewhere in our bones, we know that work is getting worse. But with this book, Horgan has provided the match and the kindling we need to burn the whole thing down’ -- Sarah Jaffe, author of 'Work Won't Love You Back' (Hurst, 2021)'At last, a book that helps us appreciate the long history of the working class challenge to the tyranny of work that puts class struggle in the workplace firmly back on the agenda' -- John McDonnell, former Shadow Chancellor of the Labour Party'An excellent and important book. It combines sharp political insight with nuanced analyses ... an invaluable resource to those with an interest not just in better understanding labour and exploitation, but also in the possibilities of freedom and collective joy' -- Helen Hester, Professor of Gender, Technology and Cultural Politics at the University of West London and author of 'Xenofeminism' (Polity, 2018)'I can't think of a more succinct and elegant expression of what work does to us and, in turn, why it's never been more urgent to shape our work' -- Will Stronge, Director of Research at Autonomy and author of 'Post-Work' (Bloomsbury, 2022)'An incisive analysis of the contemporary crisis of work - and a ringing call to reimagine it' -- Amia Srinivasan, Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, Oxford, and author of 'The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-first Century' (Bloomsbury, 2021)‘Vivid … her humour and anger is quite a tonic’ -- Owen Hatherley, Tribune'A sharp polemic ... Horgan’s insights will appeal to anyone who has ever done a job they hated' -- Hettie O’Brien, ‘Guardian’‘Brilliant … I really can’t recommend it enough’ -- Daisy Schofield, ‘Huck’‘A succinct outline of how work has become our entire existence … Lost in Work’s rally against the working world resonates to our very cores’ -- Bille Walker, ‘Aurelia magazine’‘A concise book that convincingly challenges assumptions about working many would have considered unshakeable’ -- ‘STAT magazine’'Incisive ... a theory-rich but accessible entry point for young people to examine exactly how work is failing us.' -- Sadhbh O’Sullivan, 'Refinery29'‘Timely’ -- ‘Evening Standard’‘This book incisively dissects what counts for received wisdom about work … Horgan has applied Marxist theory to everyday life with alacrity. In so doing, she has armed her readers to fight back’ -- Conrad Landin, ‘Camden New Journal’‘Smartly defines the present moment in labour politics’ -- ‘Teen Vogue’‘An anti-capitalist manifesto … Lost in Work, at its most powerful, shakes up our sense of what is politically imaginable’ -- ‘Boston Review’‘A perceptive philosophical account of what work is, what it does to us, and how we can reorganise it’ -- Katrina Forrester, ‘New Statesman’‘I really recommend this book … [Lost in Work] provides a really progressive discussion on how we should talk and think about work, and how and why our current capitalist system is cheating us’ -- Amelia Dimoldenberg, host of ‘Chicken Shop Date’‘A systematic takedown of the untenable conditions of what it is like to work now’ -- ‘Art Monthly’‘A call to action ... Horgan has applied Marxist theory to everyday life with alacrity. In so doing, she has armed her readers to fight back’ -- ‘Islington Tribune’Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Work’s fantasy 1. Work, capitalism and capitalist work 2. Contesting ‘work’ 3. The paradox of new work 4. What does work do to us as individuals? 5. Jobification nation: When play is serious business 6. What does work do to society? 7. Phantoms and slackers: Resistance at work 8. Getting together: Organised labour and the workers’ dream 9. Time off: Resistance to work Conclusion: Getting to work

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Book SynopsisAn ethnography of Uruguayan waste-pickers that reconceptualizes rubbish as a form of modern-day commonsTrade Review‘Written with a clear and convincing prose, this book makes a major contribution to and advances waste studies, environmental studies, and the anthropology of infrastructure by updating our extant theories of labor, the economy, and the commons. This book will not only serve as a useful teaching resource but also as a model for future scholars’ -- Zsuzsa Gille, Professor of Sociology and Director of Global Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign‘Activist scholarship of the highest calibre. This is an intimate, humorous and razor-sharp analysis of the politics of urban waste. O’Hare mounts a passionate defence of waste as commons, in the face of corporate and state initiatives to reconfigure waste as resource’ -- Penny Harvey, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester'A compelling ethnography of Uruguayan waste pickers. This important intervention asks who has the economic and moral right to the surplus and excess that drive capitalism. As O'Hare shows, the waste pickers lay claim to this resource as part of a dialogue with environmental and social justice, through practices of care and commoning' -- Catherine Alexander, Department of Anthropology, University of Durham'By lingering with waste workers in Montevideo, Uruguay, O'Hare intricately unfolds the changing conditions of rubbish as it circulates through scavenging practices, urban infrastructures, circular economies, and global property structures. ‘Rubbish Belongs to the Poor’ offers a radically different view of how to shape environmental citizenships.' -- Jennifer Gabrys, Chair in Media, Culture and Environment, University of Cambridge'Radically rethinks the commons, urban infrastructure, and waste in ways that hold significant political implications for our time. Patrick O'Hare calls us to take seriously the work of waste reclaimers not as a problem in need of a solution, but rather, as a source of a new kind of politics' -- Kathleen Millar, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University'A compelling account. O'Hare offers an important corrective to the framings of waste we encounter in mainstream environmentalist circles, which understand waste as a problem of hygiene and which therefore tend to support the very modes of dispossession O'Hare so powerfully describes' -- Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Bard CollegeTable of ContentsFigures Series preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: ‘La Basura Es de los Pobres’ – ‘Rubbish Belongs to the Poor’ 1. ‘All because We Bought Those Damn Trucks’: Hygienic Enclosure and Infrastructural Modernity 2. The Mother Dump: Montevideo’s Landfill Commons 3. Classifiers’ Kinship and Embedded Waste 4. Care, (Mis)Classification, and Containment at the Aries Recycling Plant 5. Precarious Labour Organising and ‘Urban Alambramiento’ Conclusion: Circular Economies, New Enclosures, and the Commons Sense Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisA primer for how to be an anti-capitalist in the 21st centuryTrade Review'David Harvey is an inspiration for me, and for people who desperately want a just world order. One of the most perceptive and intelligent thinkers the progressive movement has' -- Owen Jones'David Harvey provoked a revolution in his field and has inspired a generation of radical intellectuals' -- Naomi KleinTable of ContentsPreface - Jordan T. Camp Editors’ Note - Jordan T. Camp and Chris Caruso Author’s Note - David Harvey Acknowledgements 1. Global Unrest 2. A Brief History of Neoliberalism 3. Contradictions of Neoliberalism 4. The Financialization of Power 5. The Authoritarian Turn 6. Socialism and Freedom 7. The Significance of China in the World Economy 8. The Geopolitics of Capitalism 9. The Growth Syndrome 10. The Erosion of Consumer Choices 11. Primitive or Original Accumulation 12. Accumulation by Dispossession 13. Production and Realization 14. Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Climate Change 15. Rate versus Mass of Surplus Value 16. Alienation 17. Alienation at Work: The Politics of a Plant Closure 18. Anti-Capitalist Politics in the Time of COVID-19 19. The Collective Response to a Collective Dilemma Discussion Questions and Further Readings Index

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Book SynopsisA primer for how to be an anti-capitalist in the 21st centuryTrade Review'David Harvey is an inspiration for me, and for people who desperately want a just world order. One of the most perceptive and intelligent thinkers the progressive movement has' -- Owen Jones'David Harvey provoked a revolution in his field and has inspired a generation of radical intellectuals' -- Naomi KleinTable of ContentsPreface - Jordan T. Camp Editors’ Note - Jordan T. Camp and Chris Caruso Author’s Note - David Harvey Acknowledgements 1. Global Unrest 2. A Brief History of Neoliberalism 3. Contradictions of Neoliberalism 4. The Financialization of Power 5. The Authoritarian Turn 6. Socialism and Freedom 7. The Significance of China in the World Economy 8. The Geopolitics of Capitalism 9. The Growth Syndrome 10. The Erosion of Consumer Choices 11. Primitive or Original Accumulation 12. Accumulation by Dispossession 13. Production and Realization 14. Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Climate Change 15. Rate versus Mass of Surplus Value 16. Alienation 17. Alienation at Work: The Politics of a Plant Closure 18. Anti-Capitalist Politics in the Time of COVID-19 19. The Collective Response to a Collective Dilemma Discussion Questions and Further Readings Index

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Book SynopsisAn original theory of contemporary capitalist growth and its socio-ecological contradictionsTrade Review'A remarkably insightful analysis of the complex interface between capital and nature. This is indispensable reading for scholars, students and activists' -- William Carroll, Professor of Sociology, University of Victoria, Canada'A Social Ecology of Capital is essential reading for all interested in ecological crises, limits to growth, and alternatives. Its materialist-feminist analysis of growth as biophysical expansion and accumulation presents a much-needed foundation for understanding our current predicament' -- Matthias Schmelzer, author of 'The Hegemony of Growth''In systematically illuminating the material flows and constraints of fossil-fuelled capitalism, Pineault has compiled a useful guide to social metabolism for Marxists. He shows that, to understand our global ecological predicament, we must go beyond Marx in establishing a materialist social science' -- Alf Hornborg, Professor Emeritus of Human Ecology, Lund University and author of 'The Magic of Technology: The Machine as a Transformation of Slavery''A timely and urgent analysis which seeks to comprehend our ecological plight through an elucidation of monopoly capital' -- Gareth Dale, Reader in Political Economy, Brunel University, UK'Social ecology is further developed by Éric Pineault with this fascinating theoretical and empirical study. He shows how capital as a social relation exercises its domination - and how contested this is. A must read for scholars, students, activists, progressive politicians and the interested public!' -- Ulrich Brand, University of Vienna, co-author of the book 'The Imperial Mode of Living. Everyday Life and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism'‘Eric Pineault's book is a true Capital in the 21st Century. One where ecology matters’ -- Giorgos Kallis, ICREA Professor, ICTA-UAB.'Applying biophysical accounting methods from social ecology, Pineault analyses the metabolism of capitalism. It provides important lessons for scholars and activists about the root causes of ongoing environmental crises and the need for an encompassing social ecological transformation' -- Christoph Görg, Institute of Social Ecology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, AustriaTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Material Flow 2. Nature's Work: The Ecology of the Material Flow 3. Metabolic Regimes in a Historical Perspective 4. Fossil Based Industrial Metabolism 5. On Capitalist Metabolism 6. Accumulation and Social Metabolism in the Great Capitalist Acceleration Conclusion: Emancipation amid the Ruins of Fossil Metabolism

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Book SynopsisHow capitalism is reconfiguring the very texture of lifeTrade Review'Money is making biology mutate. Capital nowadays reaches ever deeper into organisms to reformat their genes, metabolisms, and more. This book is a lucid and provocative guide to this brave new world' -- Stefan Helmreich, Elting E. Morison Professor of Anthropology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology'An ambitious critique of biopolitical economy. The battle against capital requires a struggle over the means of genomic production, and 'Mutant Ecologies' provides an essential, historically and theoretically rigorous assessment of the terrain' -- Jesse Goldstein, Associate Professor of Sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University'An incandescent illumination of capital’s own molecular revolution. With deep research and smart theory, Borg and Policante take us into the planet factory’s latest abodes of production, where genomic tools manufacture life-forms tailor-made for accumulation on a scorching planet; a must-read' -- Nick Dyer-Witheford, author of ‘Cyber-Marx’ and ‘Cyber-Proletariat’'A major work, reinventing the critique of political economy in this new conjuncture of capital accumulation’ -- Sandro Mezzadra, Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of BolognaTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Life's Inner Workings 2. Manufacturing Lives 3. Genomic Infrastructures 4. Crispr Assembly Lines 5. Molecular Factory Farms 6. Engineering Extinction Ecologies 7. Pharmaceutical Lives 8. Bioengineering the Human Conclusion

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Book SynopsisHow capitalism is reconfiguring the very texture of lifeTrade Review'Money is making biology mutate. Capital nowadays reaches ever deeper into organisms to reformat their genes, metabolisms, and more. This book is a lucid and provocative guide to this brave new world' -- Stefan Helmreich, Elting E. Morison Professor of Anthropology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology'An ambitious critique of biopolitical economy. The battle against capital requires a struggle over the means of genomic production, and 'Mutant Ecologies' provides an essential, historically and theoretically rigorous assessment of the terrain' -- Jesse Goldstein, Associate Professor of Sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University'An incandescent illumination of capital’s own molecular revolution. With deep research and smart theory, Borg and Policante take us into the planet factory’s latest abodes of production, where genomic tools manufacture life-forms tailor-made for accumulation on a scorching planet; a must-read' -- Nick Dyer-Witheford, author of ‘Cyber-Marx’ and ‘Cyber-Proletariat’'A major work, reinventing the critique of political economy in this new conjuncture of capital accumulation’ -- Sandro Mezzadra, Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of BolognaTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Life's Inner Workings 2. Manufacturing Lives 3. Genomic Infrastructures 4. Crispr Assembly Lines 5. Molecular Factory Farms 6. Engineering Extinction Ecologies 7. Pharmaceutical Lives 8. Bioengineering the Human Conclusion

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Book SynopsisA fascinating story of how palm oil has shaped our worldTrade Review'Powerfully demonstrates how, by following the history of a key commodity, we can reconstruct the logic of imperial capitalism: its destruction of land and bodies, its drive to constantly reduce the means of our reproduction, its relentless production of oppressive regimes. The story it narrates is crucial for our understanding of the terrains of struggle and the material conditions of solidarity between different social justice movements' -- Silvia Federici'Jampacked with insights that will surprise and haunt readers, Haiven's arguments about the centrality of palm oil to colonial history and modern life are compelling, persuasive, and far-reaching' -- Andrew Ross, author of 'Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel''Whether you're reading this on a screen or a printed page, you're implicated in the global palm oil trade. In this lovely book, Max Haiven takes us on a whirlwind tour of how that came to be, guiding us through the workings of the global engines that have long been lubricated by the grease of empire' -- Raj Patel, co-author of 'A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet'Table of ContentsWhose grease? Whose punishment? Whose fetish? Whose weapon? Whose fat? Whose surplus? Whose sacrifice? Whose story? Acknowledgments Notes

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Book SynopsisA clear analysis of the about-turn in the modern financial sector towards free market authoritarianismTrade Review'Fascinating. Shows convincingly that Brexit was financed by hedge funds and alternative finance, and that their ultimate goal was to promote a new wave of financial deregulation and buy off our democratic institutions. A great piece of social sciences and a must-read' -- Thomas Piketty, author of 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century''A fresh and urgent agenda for social science research for years to come' -- Johan Heilbron, Professor in the Sociology of Education at Uppsala University'An unparalleled look into the class interests driving today's anti-democratic insurgency and its links with the authoritarian libertarianism of the hard right. Ground-breaking' -- Melinda Cooper is based at the Australian National University'A remarkable foray into the radicalisation of the political order inherent in our contemporary financial condition: an order for which remaining pockets of liberal democracy are no longer of use' -- Fabian Muniesa, Professor at the Ecole des Mines de Paris'Rare and empirically rich' -- Contretemps'A dark tale, announcing the new concept of an 'authoritarian libertarianism'' -- Mediapart'This provocative opus remarkably demonstrates how conflicts among different fractions of capital were the key drivers of UK's recent Eighteenth Brumaire: Brexit' -- Olivier Godechot, author of 'Wages, Bonuses and the Appropriation of Profit in the Financial Industry'Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Big Money Behind Brexit 2. Second-Wave Finance vs. the European Union 3. From European Neoliberalism to Authoritarian Libertarianism Epilogue: The Drumbeat of War List of Tables Notes

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Book SynopsisA clear analysis of the about-turn in the modern financial sector towards free market authoritarianismTrade Review'Fascinating. Shows convincingly that Brexit was financed by hedge funds and alternative finance, and that their ultimate goal was to promote a new wave of financial deregulation and buy off our democratic institutions. A great piece of social sciences and a must-read' -- Thomas Piketty, author of 'Capital in the Twenty-First Century''A fresh and urgent agenda for social science research for years to come' -- Johan Heilbron, Professor in the Sociology of Education at Uppsala University'An unparalleled look into the class interests driving today's anti-democratic insurgency and its links with the authoritarian libertarianism of the hard right. Ground-breaking' -- Melinda Cooper is based at the Australian National University'A remarkable foray into the radicalisation of the political order inherent in our contemporary financial condition: an order for which remaining pockets of liberal democracy are no longer of use' -- Fabian Muniesa, Professor at the Ecole des Mines de Paris'Rare and empirically rich' -- Contretemps'A dark tale, announcing the new concept of an 'authoritarian libertarianism'' -- Mediapart'This provocative opus remarkably demonstrates how conflicts among different fractions of capital were the key drivers of UK's recent Eighteenth Brumaire: Brexit' -- Olivier Godechot, author of 'Wages, Bonuses and the Appropriation of Profit in the Financial Industry'Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Big Money Behind Brexit 2. Second-Wave Finance vs. the European Union 3. From European Neoliberalism to Authoritarian Libertarianism Epilogue: The Drumbeat of War List of Tables Notes

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Book SynopsisA powerful petition against the privatisation of the criminal justice system.Trade Review'Privatising Justice is a compelling, and often disturbing, account of the shifting boundaries between state and private coercion. Historically grounded and theoretically informed, this book is a thought-provoking examination of emergent forms of public-private power and where they may be headed' -- Dean Wilson, co-author of 'Pre-crime: Pre-emption, Precaution and the Future''In this timely text, Wendy Fitzgibbon and John Lea provide a salutary warning of a potentially dystopian future in which the rule of law is ultimately subservient to, and shaped by, the neoliberal project of expanding the economic domination of the powerful' -- Lawrence Burke, co-author of 'Reimagining Rehabilitation Beyond the Individual''Privatising Justice is a compelling, and often disturbing, account of the shifting boundaries between state and private coercion. Historically grounded and theoretically informed, this book is a thought-provoking examination of emergent forms of public-private power and where they may be headed' -- Dean Wilson, co-author of 'Pre-crime: Pre-emption, Precaution and the Future''This ground-breaking analysis offers a highly readable and thought provoking understanding of the complex interplay between the state, the security industries and the military estate through the lens of privatisation' -- Sandra Walklate, author of 'Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice''The privatisation of justice is one of the riskiest developments of the recent era, yet it is also among the most misunderstood. As such, Fitzgibbon and Lea's rigorous analysis could not be more welcome. It is essential, if at times chilling, reading' -- Shadd Maruna, author of 'Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives'Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Old Privatisation 2. The Consolidation of State Power and Legitimacy 3. The Re-emergence of Private War 4. Private Security and Policing 5. The Private Sector in the Penal System 6. Towards a Private State? References Index

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Book SynopsisA powerful petition against the privatisation of the criminal justice system.Trade Review'Privatising Justice is a compelling, and often disturbing, account of the shifting boundaries between state and private coercion. Historically grounded and theoretically informed, this book is a thought-provoking examination of emergent forms of public-private power and where they may be headed' -- Dean Wilson, co-author of 'Pre-crime: Pre-emption, Precaution and the Future''In this timely text, Wendy Fitzgibbon and John Lea provide a salutary warning of a potentially dystopian future in which the rule of law is ultimately subservient to, and shaped by, the neoliberal project of expanding the economic domination of the powerful' -- Lawrence Burke, co-author of 'Reimagining Rehabilitation Beyond the Individual''Privatising Justice is a compelling, and often disturbing, account of the shifting boundaries between state and private coercion. Historically grounded and theoretically informed, this book is a thought-provoking examination of emergent forms of public-private power and where they may be headed' -- Dean Wilson, co-author of 'Pre-crime: Pre-emption, Precaution and the Future''This ground-breaking analysis offers a highly readable and thought provoking understanding of the complex interplay between the state, the security industries and the military estate through the lens of privatisation' -- Sandra Walklate, author of 'Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice''The privatisation of justice is one of the riskiest developments of the recent era, yet it is also among the most misunderstood. As such, Fitzgibbon and Lea's rigorous analysis could not be more welcome. It is essential, if at times chilling, reading' -- Shadd Maruna, author of 'Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives'Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Old Privatisation 2. The Consolidation of State Power and Legitimacy 3. The Re-emergence of Private War 4. Private Security and Policing 5. The Private Sector in the Penal System 6. Towards a Private State? References Index

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Book SynopsisA stunning edition of Marx and Engels' classic manifesto with an introduction by Jodi Dean and afterword by David Harvey.Trade Review'As a force for change, its influence has been surpassed only by the Bible. As a piece of writing, it is a masterpiece' -- GuardianTable of Contents1. Introduction by Jodi Dean 2. Manifesto of the Communist Party I. Bourgeois and Proletarians II. Proletarians and Communists III. Socialist and Communist Literature IV. Position of the Communists in Relation to the Various Existing Opposition Parties 3. Appendix: Prefaces to Various Language Editions 4. Afterword: Introduction to the 2008 Edition by David Harvey

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Book SynopsisSteffan Blayney works for a trade union in London and is an honorary research fellow at the University of Sheffield, UK.Joey Hornsby completed her PhD in 2021. Her work was recently published in Nottingham French Studies.Savannah Whaley is a lecturer in theory and performance at King's College London, UK.Trade ReviewIf Marx taught us that capitalist labour ‘mortifies’ the body of the worker, this book is an urgent and critical analysis of that process of mortification. The book refocuses our attention to how the body is both produced and becomes productive under capital’s strident demands upon it. But the authors urge us to consider not the passive trope of bodily resilience when it comes to the global working class, but the constant running script of bodily resistance as workers hide from, defy, or in some moments, dismantle capitalist logic. * Tithi Bhattacharya, Purdue University, USA *This book is a bold intervention into ways of thinking about “the productive body” from Marx to twenty-first century digital capitalism. By encouraging us to reflect on bodies and the future of resistance, it is an essential text for anyone interested in contemporary regimes of power. * Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck, University of London, UK *Taking François Guéry and Didier Deleule’s The Productive Body as a starting point, the chapters collected in this wide-ranging and critical volume show how the dynamics of capitalist social form have shaped (and continue to shape) the practical and discursive treatment of bodies. As the editors and contributors insist, bodies are not transhistorical givens, the ‘real’ or ‘natural’ counterparts to capital’s abstract forms. Rather, their varied uses and meanings appear in the course of those forms’ historical elaboration. * Seb Franklin, King’s College London, UK *Table of Contents1. Introduction: Rethinking Capitalism, Work, and the Body Steffan Blayney, Joey Hornsby & Savannah Whaley 2. The Productive Body Revisited François Guéry 2. The Productive Body Revisited Dan Taylor 4. Corporeal and Abstract: Is There a 'Left Biopolitics' of Bodies? Marina Vishmidt 5. Empty Promises: The Financialization of Labour Phil Jones 6. The Dialectical Body: Bringing Science Back into Socialism Graham Jones 7. Neither Appropriated nor Expropriated: Notes Towards an Autonomist Cripistemology of the Productive Body Arianna Introna 8. The Quantified Self, the Ideology of Health, and Fat Dawn Woolley 9. The Artefact of Losing: The (Bio)poetics of Miscarriage Helen Charman & Christopher Law 10. Reproductive Data-Bodies: Privacy, Inequality and Anti-Abortion Politics in the Age of Platform Capitalism Grace Tillyard 11. Algorithmic Capitalism, the New Machinofacture and the Productive Body Stephen Shapiro & Philip Barnard

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAn excellent, accessible introduction to the thought of David Harvey, one of the foremost Marxian urban analysts of our era. Cooperative Economics News ServiceTable of ContentsList of FiguresPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. The Urbanization of CapitalChapter 2. The Urban Process under Capitalism: A Framework for AnalysisChapter 3. Land Rent under CapitalismChapter 4. Class Structure and the Theory of Residential DifferentiationChapter 5. The Place of Urban Politics in the Geography of Uneven Capitalist DevelopmentChapter 6. Money, Time, Space, and the CityChapter 7. Monument and Myth: the Building of the Basilica of the Sacred HeartChapter 8. The Urbanization of ConsciousnessChapter 9. Flexible Accumulation Through Urbanization: Reflection on "Post-Modernism" in the American CityReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book, a crossover hit in France, offers a fresh genealogy of our neoliberal moment.Table of ContentsPreface | vii Introduction: The Lag of the Human Species | 1 1 Readapting the Human Species to the Great Society | 7 2 A Darwinian Democracy | 23 3 The Biological Sources of the Conflict | 52 4 Toward a New Liberalism | 75 5 The Great Revolution: Switching Off Intelligence | 92 6 Reforming the Human Species through Law | 110 7 The Neoliberal Agenda: Toward a New Age of Biopolitics | 130 Conclusion: Governing Life and the Living: Toward New Conflicts | 161 Notes | 171 Bibliography | 197 Index | 203

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Book SynopsisWhat does freedom mean without, and despite, the state? Focusing on the relation between state violence and racial capitalism, this book excavates an antipolitical worldmaking project which seeks not just better ways of being governed, but an end to governance in its entirety.Trade Review'An excellent presentation of the thesis of racial capitalism, Resisting Racial Capitalism revisits the archives of anarchism to remind us that social existence is conceivable, possible, and even preferable without the juridic formation, whose principal role has been to facilitate the economic goals of capital. This timely engagement with Cedric Robinson's thought belongs in the shelves of persons and organisations working toward decolonisation and reparations for colonial and racial subjugation.' Denise Ferreira da Silva, Author of Unpayable Debt and Toward a Global Idea of Race'This is political theory at its best. Ida Danewid moves from speculating about the state to calling for its abolition. Unearthing a subterranean archive of anarchist thought and practice across our shared planet, Danewid makes a powerful case for seeing all states as central to an ongoing war on people and the planet. Refusing to accept that not being governed belongs only in the realm of idealism and impracticality, we are invited to tread the well-worn path of making ourselves ungovernable. Danewid thus presents a radically different worldmaking project, one capable of ending racial capitalism's violent regimes of separation and accumulation and reclaiming our freedom.' Nandita Sharma, Professor of Sociology, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa'Ida Danewid has gifted us a timely book, an incisive work of theory, history and imagination. She not only reminds us of the nature of the State - racialising, gendering, and hierarchy producing - but also makes a convincing argument for its abolition. Drawing from practices of refusal, she proposes an anti-political theory of refusal that invites us to collectively freeing ourselves from the shackles of racial capitalism.' Françoise Vergès, Antiracist decolonial feminist activist, writer'Ida Danewid provides a kaleidoscopic view of the many ways in which state formation and state power is not simply coincidental to, but, rather, central to the expansion of racial capitalism. This clear-eyed analysis jettisons our fixation with reforming state power and unearths world-making otherwise to capitalist-colonial modernity.' Harsha Walia, Author of Border & Rule and Undoing Border ImperialismTable of ContentsIntroduction: antipolitical dreamworlds; 1. A most bourgeois ambition; 2. Ode to utopia; 3. War on dirt; 4. Maps of apartheid; 5. Of plunder and property; 6. It runs in the family; Conclusion: the new society.

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Book SynopsisSimultaneously a critique of Foucauldian governmentalist interpretations of neoliberalism and a historical materialist reading of contemporary South Asian fictions, Allegories of Neoliberalism is a probing analysis of literary representations of capitalism's forms of appearance.This book offers critical discussions on the important works of Akhtaruzzaman Elias, Amitav Ghosh, Aravind Adiga, Arundhati Roy, H. M. Naqvi, Mohsin Hamid, Nasreen Jahan, Samrat Upadhyay, and other writers from South Asia and South Asian diaspora.It also advances a re-reading of Karl Marx's Capital through the themes and tropes of literatureone that looks into literary representations of commoditization, monetization, class exploitation, uneven spatial relationship, financialization, and ecological devastation through the lens of the German revolutionary's critique of capitalism.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Allegorizing Neoliberalism2. "Kanna" and the Monetization of Affect 3. The White Tiger and the Subsumption of the Rural4. Home Boy, The Reluctant Fundamentalist and the "Empire of Finance" 5. Conclusion: In the Ruins of Neoliberalism

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