Political Economy
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Free, Fair, and Alive: The Insurgent Power of the Commons
$29.99 Read moreThe power of the commons as a free, fair system of provisioning and governance beyond capitalism, socialism, and other -isms.
From co-housing and agroecology to fisheries and open-source everything, pe
- Author: Bollier, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0865719217
- Language: English
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Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future
$24.95 Read moreHow climate change will affect our political theory–for better and worse
Despite the science and the summits, leading capitalist states have not achieved anything close to an adequate level of carbon- Author: Wainwright, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1786634457
- Language: English
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Crude Nation: How Oil Riches Ruined Venezuela
$21.95 Add to cartBeneath Venezuelan soil lies an ocean of crude–the world’s largest reserves–an oil patch that shaped the nature of the global energy business. Unfortunately, a dysfunctional anti-American, leftist g… [more below]
- Author: Gallegos, Raúl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1640122133
- Language: English
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Economic Theory and Community Development: Why putting community first is essential to our survival
$26.95 Add to cartThis book critiques not just neoliberal economics but also the fundamental separation among humans that all economic theories presuppose. Excessive reliance on economic assumptions and practices has c
- Author: Richards, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 458
- Publish Date: June 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1952292085
- Language: English
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That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
$28.99 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
In That Used to Be Us, Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum analyze the four major challenges we face as a countr
A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2011- Author: Friedman, Thomas L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 21 2012
- ISBN10: 1250013720
- Language: English
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The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
$19.99 Add to cartIn 1936 Keynes published the most provocative book written by any economist of his generation. Arguments about the book continued until his death in 1946 and still continue today. This new edition, pu
- Author: Keynes, John Maynard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 24 2008
- ISBN10: 9650060251
- Language: English
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Capital: Volume One: A Critique of Political Economy
$14.00 Add to cartCapital: Volume One by Karl Marx is a classic of political economics and was described by Friedrich Engels, the author’s friend and collaborator, as “the bible of the working class.” Thirty years in t… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Marx, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: July 17 2019
- ISBN10: 0486832392
- Language: English
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The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World
$24.99 Read moreThe Times (UK) book of the year! Meritocracy: the idea that people should be advanced according to their talents rather than their birth. While this initially seemed like a novel concept, by the end o… [more below]
- Author: Wooldridge, Adrian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: July 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1510768610
- Language: English
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The Next American Economy: Nation, State, and Markets in an Uncertain World
$30.99 Read moreAmericans across the political spectrum have turned away from free market capitalism, calling for more government intervention into the economy. This optimistic book explains how a dynamic, Commercial
- Author: Gregg, Samuel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 164177276X
- Language: English
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Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third Worl
$19.95 Read moreThis global environmental and political history “will redefine the way we think about the European colonial project” (Observer).
” . . . sets the triumph of the late 19th-century Western imperialism… [more below]- Series: Essential Mike Davis
- Author: Davis, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1784786624
- Language: English
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Confronting Capitalism: How the World Works and How to Change It
$24.95 Add to cartA strategic guide to building a more democratic and egalitarian future
Why is our society so unequal? Why, despite their small numbers, do the rich dominate policy and politics even in democratic coun- Series: Jacobin
- Author: Chibber, Vivek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1839762705
- Language: English
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The Other America
$19.99 Add to cartIn the fifty years since it was published, The Other America has been established as a seminal work of sociology. This anniversary edition includes Michael Harrington’s essays on poverty in the 1970s … [more below]
- Author: Harrington, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: August 01 1997
- ISBN10: 068482678X
- Language: English
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Mute Compulsion: A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital
$29.95 Add to cartShortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize
A new Marxist theory of the abstract and impersonal forms of power in capitalism Despite insoluble contradictions, intense volatility and fierce resistance- Author: Mau, S?ren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1839763469
- Language: English
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How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century
$19.95 Add to cartWhat is wrong with capitalism, and how can we change it?
Capitalism has transformed the world and increased our productivity, but at the cost of enormous human suffering. Our shared values–equality a- Author: Wright, Erik Olin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1788739558
- Language: English
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The Economists’ Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society
$22.99 Add to cartIn this “lively and entertaining” history of ideas (Liaquat Ahamed, The New Yorker), New York Times editorial writer Binyamin Appelbaum tells the story of the people who sparked four decades of econom… [more below]
- Author: Appelbaum, Binyamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0316512346
- Language: English
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Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age
$24.95 Add to cartImagine a capitalist paradise. An island utopia governed solely by the rules of the market and inspired by the fictions of Ayn Rand and Robinson Crusoe. Sound far-fetched? It may not be. The past half
- Series: Spectre
- Author: Craib, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1629639176
- Language: English
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The Future Is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism
$29.95 Add to cartWe need to break free from the capitalist economy. Degrowth gives us the tools to bend its bars.
Economic growth isn’t working, and it cannot be made to work. Offering a counter-history of how economi
- Author: Schmelzer, Matthias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1839765844
- Language: English
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Sacred Economics, Revised: Money, Gift & Society in the Age of Transition
$23.95 Add to cartExpanded and updated, Charles Eisenstein’s classic treatise on capitalism, currency, and the gift economy.
This revised version traces the history of money, from ancient gift economies to modern capit- Author: Eisenstein, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1623175763
- Language: English
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Wealth, Poverty and Politics
$40.00 Add to cartIn Wealth, Poverty, and Politics, Thomas Sowell, one of the foremost conservative public intellectuals in this country, argues that political and ideological struggles have led to dangerous confusion … [more below]
- Author: Sowell, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 046509676X
- Language: English
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Jackson Rising Redux: Lessons on Building the Future in the Present
$24.95 Add to cartMississippi is the poorest state in the US, with the highest percentage of Black people and a history of vicious racial terror. Black resistance at a time of global health, economic, and climate crisi
- Author: Akuno, Kali
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1629639281
- Language: English
