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Giovanni Arrighi, 1937–2009
Giovanni Arrighi passed away on Thursday, 18th June. He was one of the foremost scholars of the history and future of capitalism, and author of The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times and Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century. A conference, Dynamics of the Global Crisis, was recently held in his honour in Madrid. Earlier this year David Harvey interviewed Giovanni about his life’s work; it appeared in NLR 56 as “The Winding Paths of Capital.” Peter Gowan, 1946-2009 Peter Gowan passed away on Friday, 12th June. A long standing member of the New Left Review editorial board, a pioneering scholar of Eastern Europe politics and economics and author of The Global Gamble: Washington’s Faustian Bid for World Dominance. To see Misha Glenny’s obituary in The Guardian, click here. In his honour a prize fund for a graduate student at London Metropolitan University has been set up; see the Verso blogsite for information on how to donate. New Series of Radical Thinkers Now Available “Verso's beautifully designed Radical Thinkers series, which brings together seminal works by leading left-wing intellectuals, is a sophisticated blend of theory and thought. The authors whose writings are included in the series have worked tirelessly to expose the mechanisms by which culture and knowledge are manufactured, managed and controlled.” – Ziauddin Sardar, New Statesman Keep up to date with Verso UK’s events with Verso authors, reviews of Verso books and special offers.
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