Economics

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  The Food Wars

  by Walden Bello
  Crucial analysis of how the West created the global food crisis.
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  Adam Smith in Beijing

  by Giovanni Arrighi
  Acclaimed exploration of China’s emergence as the most dynamic center of current economic expansion.

  2 posts

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  Planet of Slums

  by Mike Davis
  The celebrated urban historian’s bestselling account of the global explosion of slums.

  6 posts

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  The Limits to Capital

  by David Harvey
  A major rereading of Marx’s critique of political economy, newly updated.

  3 posts

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  Inequalities of the World

  Edited by Göran Therborn
  A groundbreaking exploration of global inequality.
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  The Economics of Global Turbulence

  by Robert Brenner
  A commanding survey of the world economy from 1950 to the present, from the author of the acclaimed The Boom and the Bubble.

  2 posts

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  Redesigning Distribution

  by Bruce Ackerman, Anne Alstott, et al.
  Two proposals that would make capitalism much more egalitarian.
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  Contours of Descent

  by Robert Pollin
  How US and IMF policies lavish favors on multinationals and capitalists, while allowing living standards for ordinary people to fall. 

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  Empire of Capital

  by Ellen Meiksins Wood
  What does imperialism mean in the absence of colonial conquest and imperial rule?
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  Parecon

  by Michael Albert
  An answer to the constant query put to economic and globalization activists: what do you want?
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  Marx's Revenge

  by Meghnad Desai
  In the triumphant resurgence of capitalism, the one thinker who is vindicated is Karl Marx.
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  Banking on Death, Or Investing in Life

  by Robin Blackburn
  A panoramic view of the origins and development of the pension idea.

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  The Boom and the Bubble

  by Robert Brenner
  Brenner demonstrates that the new economy was always a fragile phenomenon.
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  Privatising Culture

  by Chin-tao Wu
  Mapping for the first time the increasingly hegemonic position that corporations and corporate elites have come to occupy in the cultural arena.
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  Market-Driven Politics

  by Colin Leys
  The commodification of public services, and the role of the state in absorbing risk.
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  The Power to Choose

  by Naila Kabeer
  A powerful analysis of how globalization is affecting the lives of women at work.

  1 post