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Erik Olin Wright

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The City

by Tony Norfield

Radical insider’s account of how the city of London really works

13 posts
Fictitious Capital

by Cédric Durand

How finance is a mechanism of social and political domination

15 posts
The Origin of Capitalism

by Ellen Meiksins Wood

How did the dynamic economic system we know as capitalism develop among the peasants and lords of feudal Europe?

33 posts
The Age of Inequality

Edited by Jeremy Gantz

The stories behind the inequality crisis—a forty-year investigation by In These Times

2 posts

Buying Time

by Wolfgang Streeck

“Reminds one of Karl Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.” —Jürgen Habermas

80 posts
Dirty Secrets

by Richard Murphy
What happens when the rich are allowed to hide their money in tax havens, and what we should do about it
2 posts
The Bonds of Debt

by Richard Dienst

Indebtedness as the universal condition of modern life

9 posts
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money: A Reader's Companion

by Geoff Mann

4 posts

Disaster Capitalism

by Antony Loewenstein

How Capitalism makes a fortune from disaster, poverty and catastrophe

20 posts
Four Futures

by Peter Frase

An exhilarating exploration into the utopias and dystopias that could develop from present society

24 posts
No Such Thing as a Free Gift

by Linsey McGoey

Philanthro-capitalism: How charity became big business

5 posts
The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume II

by Rosa Luxemburg

Rosa Luxemburg’s theoretical masterpiece

25 posts

Alternatives to Capitalism

by Robin Hahnel and Erik Olin Wright
What would a viable free and democratic society look like? Poverty, exploitation, instability, hierarchy, subordination, environmental exhaustion,...
3 posts
Fossil Capital

by Andreas Malm

How capitalism first promoted fossil fuels with the rise of steam power

39 posts
The Pristine Culture of Capitalism

by Ellen Meiksins Wood

In this lively and wide-ranging book, Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that what is supposed to have epitomized bourgeois modernity, especially the...

16 posts
Understanding Class

by Erik Olin Wright
Leading sociologist examines how different readings of class enrich our understanding of capitalism
7 posts

Against the Troika

by Heiner Flassbeck and Costas Lapavitsas
A radical anti-capitalist alternative to Eurozone austerity
154 posts
The Formation of the Economic Thought of Karl Marx

by Ernest Mandel

A clear and compact guide to Marx’s road to Das Kapital

10 posts
Marx on Money

by Suzanne de Brunhoff
The republication of Suzanne de Brunhoff’s classic investigation into Karl Marx’s conception of “the money commodity” shines light on commodities...
7 posts
A Theory of Capitalist Regulation

by Michel Aglietta
Michel Aglietta’s path-breaking book is the first attempt at a rigorous historical theory of the whole development of US capitalism, from the Civil...
12 posts

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