Political Economy
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The Master’s Tools: How Finance Wrecked Democracy (and a Radical Plan to Rebuild It)
$29.95 Add to cartFinance serves the rich and powerful. We need to democratize it.
Why is democracy so broken and how might it be fixed? In The Master’s Tools, award-winning author Michael A. McCarthy argues the answer- Author: McCarthy, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1788730666
- Language: English
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How We Sold Our Future: The Failure to Fight Climate Change
$29.95 Add to cartFor decades we have known about the dangers of global warming. Nevertheless, greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase. How can we explain our failure to take the necessary measures to stop climat… [more below]
- Author: Beckert, Jens
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1509565094
- Language: English
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How Will Capitalism End?: Essays on a Failing System
$29.95 Add to cartOne of the “Best Books of the Year” Guardian – Financial Times – Times Higher Education
A major collection of essays that questions whether contemporary capitalism will end with a bang or a whimper–- Author: Streeck, Wolfgang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1786632985
- Language: English
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Taking Back Control?: States and State Systems After Globalism
$34.95 Add to cartTaking back control? States and state systems after globalization
The era of hyperglobalization once hailed as the ‘end of history’ was characterised by boundless capitalist expansion. The neoliberal- Author: Streeck, Wolfgang
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1839767294
- Language: English
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Titans of Capital: How Concentrated Wealth Threatens Humanity
$18.95 Add to cartA fascinating examination of the rapid concentration of global capital, with chapters that focus on China and Russia.
Explores how fewer and larger investment companies now manage the excess financial- Author: Phillips, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1644214334
- Language: English
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People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent
$17.95 Add to cartAn authoritative account of the dangers of unfettered markets and monied politics, People, Power, and Profits shows us an America in crisis. The American people, however, are far from powerless, and J
- Author: Stiglitz, Joseph E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 21 2020
- ISBN10: 039335833X
- Language: English
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Chums
$16.95 Read moreTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2022. Eleven of the fifteen postwar British prime ministers went to Oxford. In Chums, Simon Kuper traces how the rarefied and privileged atmosphere o… [more below]
- Author: Kuper, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1788167392
- Language: English
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The State of Capitalism: Economy, Society, and Hegemony
$29.95 Read moreThinking beyond pandemic capitalism
The health emergency that broke out in 2020 is a landmark event in the development of capitalism, confirming the underlying change signalled by the Great Crisis of- Author: Lapavitsas, Costas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1839767847
- Language: English
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The Cost of Living Crisis: (And How to Get Out of It)
$12.95 Read moreA myth-busting pamphlet that charts a course out of the current cost of living crisis, focusing on Britain’s current economic situation
We are living through a cost of living crisis, with interest rat- Author: Lapavitsas, Costas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1804293849
- Language: English
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The New Technology State: How Our Digital Dreams Became Societal Nightmares–And What We Can Do about It
$26.95 Read more“Bill Raduchel started at Harvard as my father’s student, assistant, and friend. He went on to a career in technology as the digital revolution unfolded before his eyes. In The New Technology State, h
- Author: Raduchel, Bill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1637557469
- Language: English
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The War on Small Business: How the Government Used the Pandemic to Crush the Backbone of America
$28.99 Read moreFor years, government bureaucrats have been looking for ways to destroy small businesses. With coronavirus, they finally had their chance.
In 2020, the American economy suffered the biggest financial
- Author: Roth, Carol
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 29 2021
- ISBN10: 0063081415
- Language: English
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Why Politics Fails
$30.00 Read moreA leading political expert explains why systems fail to deliver things we all want–democracy, equality, solidarity, security and prosperity–and what can be done to create a just, equitable, and envi… [more below]
- Author: Ansell, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1541702077
- Language: English
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Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World
$29.95 Read moreAll hail the new masters of Capitalism: How asset managers acquired the world
Banks have taken a backseat since the global financial crisis over a decade ago. Today, our new financial masters are ass- Author: Christophers, Brett
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1839768983
- Language: English
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Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform
$29.95 Read moreLonglisted for the Financial Times Schroders Business Book of the Year Award 2023
BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: GQ, Los Angeles Times, Wired The essential guide to this new landscape of NFTs, Web3, Crypto an- Author: O’Dwyer, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1839768347
- Language: English
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Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
$21.99 Add to cartIn this bold reinterpretation of economics and history, the consequence of sole reliance on AI is revealed-as well as what must be done to redirect innovation so it benefits all.
The transformation o- Author: Acemoglu, Daron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1541702549
- Language: English
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Rational Thoughts: Common Sense Improvements to Life In America
$13.95 Add to cartRational Thoughts: Commonsense Improvements to Life in America positions itself as a comprehensive guide delving into the intricacies of contemporary existence in the United States. Within its pages,
- Author: Galanis, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 70
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 9798891578050
- Language: English
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Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1
$39.95 Add to cartMarx for the twenty-first century
The first new English translation in fifty years–and the only one based on the last German edition revised by Marx himself
Featuring extensive original commentary, inc- Author: Marx, Karl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 944
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0691190070
- Language: English
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People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent
$17.95 Read moreAn authoritative account of the dangers of unfettered markets and monied politics, People, Power, and Profits shows us an America in crisis. The American people, however, are far from powerless, and J
- Author: Stiglitz, Joseph E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 21 2020
- ISBN10: 039335833X
- Language: English
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The Price Is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet
$29.95 Add to cart“Standard theories of the causes of climate breakdown will not survive this book. Readers will be all the wiser.”
Why the market will never solve the
–Andreas Malm, author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline- Author: Christophers, Brett
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1804292303
- Language: English
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The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor
$18.99 Add to cartIn this “bracingly iconoclastic” book (New York Times Book Review), a renowned economics scholar breaks down the fight to end global poverty and the rights that poor individuals have had taken away fo… [more below]
- Author: Easterly, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1541675673
- Language: English
