Political Economy
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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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Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash
$25.99 Add to cartAn unprecedented look at that most commonplace act of everyday life-throwing things out-and how it has transformed American society.
Susan Strasser’s pathbreaking histories of housework and the rise o- Author: Strasser, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 17 2011
- ISBN10: 0805065121
- Language: English
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State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century
$24.95 Add to cartFrancis Fukuyama famously predicted “the end of history” with the ascendancy of liberal democracy and global capitalism. The topic of his latest book is, therefore, surprising: the building of new nat
- Series: Messenger Lectures
- Author: Fukuyama, Francis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0801442923
- 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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Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and Arabia
$26.95 Read moreA revelatory new history of the colonization of the American West
**Longlisted for the 2023 Cundill History Prize** The iconic deserts of the American southwest could not have been colonized and settl- Author: Koch, Natalie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1839763698
- 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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It’s Ok to Be Angry about Capitalism
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billionaires at the expense of the working class, and a blueprint for what trans… [more below]
- Author: Sanders, Bernie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0593238737
- Language: English
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Black Lives Matter at School: An Uprising for Educational Justice
$24.95 Read moreBlack Lives Matter at School connects thousands of educators around the country who are fighting racial and economic inequality in schools.
- Author: Hagopian, Jesse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1642592706
- Language: English
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Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be
$18.95 Read moreHow economics needs to change to keep pace with the twenty-first century and the digital economy
Digital technology, big data, big tech, machine learning, and AI are revolutionizing both the tools of- Author: Coyle, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0691231044
- Language: English
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A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism
$16.99 Add to cartA stirring defense of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our time from an award-winning and New York Times bestselling author.
Not since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, been… [more below]- Author: Gopnik, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1541699343
- 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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Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi
$19.99 Add to cartMississippi, the poorest state in the U.S. with the highest percentage of Black people, a history of vicious racial terror and concurrent Black resistance is the backdrop and context for the drama cap
- Author: Akuno, Kali
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 11 2017
- ISBN10: 099534745X
- Language: English
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The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy
$18.95 Add to cartIn this eloquent challenge to the reigning wisdom on globalization, Dani Rodrik reminds us of the importance of the nation-state, arguing forcefully that when the social arrangements of democracies in… [more below]
- Author: Rodrik, Dani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 05 2012
- ISBN10: 0393341283
- Language: English
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The Next American Economy: Nation, State, and Markets in an Uncertain World
$30.99 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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Race for the Exits: The Unraveling of Japan’s System of Social Protection
$147.50 Add to cartContrary to all expectations, Japan’s long-term recession has provoked no sustained political movement to replace the nation’s malfunctioning economic structure. The country’s basic social contract ha
- Author: Schoppa, Leonard J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 15 2005
- ISBN10: 801444330
- Language: English
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The Other America
$19.99 Add to cartIn the fifty years since it was published, The Other America has been established as a seminal work of sociology. This anniversary edition includes Michael Harrington’s essays on poverty in the 1970s … [more below]
- Author: Harrington, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: August 01 1997
- ISBN10: 068482678X
- Language: English
