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  • Davos Man

    How the Billionaires Devoured the World

    A San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller • An NPR Best Book of the YearThe New York Times’s Global Economics Correspondent masterfully reveals how billionaires’ systematic plunder of the world—brazenly accelerated during the pandemic—has transformed 21st-century life and dangerously destabilized democracy.“Davos Man will be read a hundred years from now as a warning.” —Evan O... ... Read more

    $15.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • Guerra multidimensional entre Estados Unidos y China

    En medio de la guerra multidimensional –geofinanciera, comercial, tecnológica, regional y de vacunas– que libra Estados Unidos contra China, el “nuevo orden mundial post-COVID-19” no trastoca, sino profundiza y acelera tendencias irreversibles. Tales tendencias al “nuevo orden tripolar” iniciaron desde la crisis financierista de 2008, cuando China optó por no seguir más el liderazgo de la tramposa ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism

    NEW 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 transformational change would actually look like“A clarion call against the American oligarchs . . . powerful.”—The GuardianIt’s OK to be angry about capitalism. Reflecting on our turbulent times, Senator ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • The Capitalism Papers

    Fatal Flaws of an Obsolete System

    by Jerry Mander ...
    In the vein of his bestseller, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, nationally recognized social critic Jerry Mander researches, discusses, and exposes the momentous and unsolvable environmental and social problem of capitalism.Mander argues that capitalism is no longer a viable system: "What may have worked in 1900 is calamitous in 2010." Capitalism, utterly dependent on never–ending ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Basic Economics

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    The bestselling citizen's guide to economicsBasic Economics is a citizen's guide to economics, written for those who want to understand how the economy works but have no interest in jargon or equations. Bestselling economist Thomas Sowell explains the general principles underlying different economic systems: capitalist, socialist, feudal, and so on. In readable language, he shows how to critique ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • In the Long Run We Are All Dead

    Keynesianism, Political Economy, and Revolution

    by Geoff Mann ...
    A groundbreaking debunking of moderate attempts to resolve financial crisesIn the ruins of the 2007–2008 financial crisis, self-proclaimed progressives the world over clamored to resurrect the economic theory of John Maynard Keynes. The crisis seemed to expose the disaster of small-state, free-market liberalization and deregulation. Keynesian political economy, in contrast, could put the state ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Economic Facts and Fallacies

    Second Edition

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    Thomas Sowell “both surprises and overturns received wisdom” in this indispensable examination of widespread economic fallacies (The Economist)Economic Facts and Fallacies exposes some of the most popular fallacies about economic issues-and does so in a lively manner and without requiring any prior knowledge of economics by the reader. These include many beliefs widely disseminated in the media ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Power and Progress

    Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity

    The bestselling co-author of Why Nations Fail and the bestselling co-author of 13 Bankers deliver a bold reinterpretation of economics and history that will fundamentally change how you see the worldA thousand years of history and contemporary evidence make one thing clear: progress depends on the choices we make about technology. New ways of organizing production and communication can either ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Let them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality

    A New York Times Editors’ ChoiceAn “essential” (Jane Mayer) account of the dangerous marriage of plutocratic economic priorities and right-wing populist appeals — and how it threatens the pillars of American democracy.In Let Them Eat Tweets, best-selling political scientists Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson argue that despite the rhetoric of Donald Trump, Josh Hawley, and other right-wing ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Global Political Economy

    Theory and Practice

    Praised for its authoritative coverage, Global Political Economy places the study of IPE in broad theoretical context and has been updated to cover the rise of populism, Brexit, the USMCA, US–China trade wars, tariffs, refugees and global migration, the Keynesian–monetarist debate, Fordism, automation, the "gig" economy, global value chains, climate change, cryptocurrencies, and the residual ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Understanding Class

    Leading sociologist examines how different readings of class enrich our understanding of capitalismFew ideas are more contested today than “class.” Some have declared its death, while others insist on its centrality to contemporary capitalism. It is said its relevance is limited to explaining individuals’ economic conditions and opportunities, while at the same time argued that it is a structural ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • World on Fire

    How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability

    by Amy Chua ...
    The reigning consensus holds that the combination of free markets and democracy would transform the third world and sweep away the ethnic hatred and religious zealotry associated with underdevelopment. In this revelatory investigation of the true impact of globalization, Yale Law School professor Amy Chua explains why many developing countries are in fact consumed by ethnic violence after adopting ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Religion and the Rise of Capitalism

    by R. H. Tawney ...
    Series series Verso World History Series
    A classic of political economy that traces the influence of religious thought on capitalismIn one of the true classics of twentieth-century political economy, R. H. Tawney investigates the way religion has moulded social and economic practice. He tracks the influence of religious thought on capitalist economy and ideology since the Middle Ages, shedding light on the question of why Christianity ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Democratic by Design

    How Carsharing, Co-ops, and Community Land Trusts Are Reinventing America

    Americans have, since our founding, participated in a variety of alternative institutions--self-organized projects that work outside the traditional structures of government and business to change society. From the town meetings that still serve as our ideal of self-governance, to the sustainable food movement that is changing the way we think about farming the land and feeding our families, these ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Agenda for a New Economy

    From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth

    The author of When Corporations Rule the World presents a critical handbook for economic revolution in this revised and updated edition.Despite the lessons learned from the economic meltdown of 2008, we are more vulnerable than ever to the same kind of economic havoc. Wall Street executives have returned to their culture of massive bonuses, and our leaders in Washington remain unwilling to make ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Climate Leviathan

    A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future

    How climate change will affect our political theory—for better and worseDespite the science and the summits, leading capitalist states have not achieved anything close to an adequate level of carbon mitigation. There is now simply no way to prevent the planet breaching the threshold of two degrees Celsius set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. What are the likely political and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Conservation Revolution

    Radical Ideas for Saving Nature Beyond the Anthropocene

    A post-capitalist manifesto for conservationConservation needs a revolution. This is the only way it can contribute to the drastic transformations needed to come to a truly sustainable model of development. The good news is that conservation is ready for revolution. Heated debates about the rise of the Anthropocene and the current ‘sixth extinction’ crisis demonstrate an urgent need and desire to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Alternative

    How to Build a Just Economy

    by Nick Romeo ...
    Winners Take All meets Nickel and Dimed in this provocative debunking of accepted wisdom, providing the pathway to a sustainable, survivable economy.Confronted by the terrifying trends of the early twenty-first century – widening inequality, environmental destruction, and the immiseration of millions of workers around the world – many economists and business leaders still preach dogmas that lack ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Overtime

    Why We Need A Shorter Working Week

    Work isn’t workingAs precarity and low pay become further embedded in the job market, at a time when work-related stress and exhaustion are endemic, it is clear that a new, radical approach to employment is required.Many industries already face existential threats from automation, climate breakdown, a crisis of care, and an ageing population. In Overtime, Kyle Lewis and Will Stronge identify a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Capitalisms Compared

    Welfare, Work, and Business

    How different would Americans’ lives be if they had guaranteed access to health care, generous public pensions, paid family leave, high-quality public pre-school care, increased rights at work, and a greater say in how corporations are run?This one-of-a-kind book emphasizes that differences in policies and institutions affect the lives of citizens by comparing health, pension, and family policies, ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • The Future of Capitalism

    Facing the New Anxieties

    by Paul Collier ...
    Bill Gates's Five Books for Summer Reading 2019From world-renowned economist Paul Collier, a candid diagnosis of the failures of capitalism and a pragmatic and realistic vision for how we can repair it.Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of the United States and other Western societies: thriving cities versus rural counties, the highly skilled elite versus the less educated, wealthy versus ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism?

    **“Democracy is no longer writing the rules for capitalism; instead it is the other way around. With his deep insight and wide learning, Kuttner is among our best guides for understanding how we reached this point and what’s at stake if we stay on our current path.”—Heather McGhee, president of DemosWith a new Afterword**In the past few decades, the wages of most workers have stagnated, even as ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Marriage Markets

    How Inequality is Remaking the American Family

    There was a time when the phrase "American family" conjured up a single, specific image: a breadwinner dad, a homemaker mom, and their 2.5 kids living comfortable lives in a middle-class suburb. Today, that image has been shattered, due in part to skyrocketing divorce rates, single parenthood, and increased out-of-wedlock births. But whether it is conservatives bewailing the wages of moral decline ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Child Labor and the Urban Third World

    Toward a New Understanding of the Problem

    The Third World cities have been reinvented by the forces of globalization as the destinations of new investments, causing the migration of a teeming million to the major urban centers without any corresponding increase in the creation of new jobs and other basic amenities required for decent living. The problem of child labor has also been exacerbated to an unprecedented level in the urban areas ... Read more

    $33.99 USD