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Erik Olin Wright

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Marx for Our Times

by Daniel Bensaïd
Shows the relevance of Marx to twenty-first century global capitalism.
23 posts
The Food Wars

by Walden Bello

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

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

36 posts

Inequalities of the World

Edited by Göran Therborn
A groundbreaking exploration of global inequality.
Redesigning Distribution: Basic Income and Stakeholder Grants as Cornerstones for an Egalitarian Capitalism

by Anne Alstott and Philippe Van Parijs

Two proposals that would make capitalism much more egalitarian.

2 posts
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.
2 posts
Empire of Capital

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

Marx's Revenge

by Meghnad Desai
In the triumphant resurgence of capitalism, the one thinker who is vindicated is Karl Marx.
2 posts
Parecon

by Michael Albert
An answer to the constant query put to economic and globalization activists: what do you want?
Banking on Death, Or Investing in Life

by Robin Blackburn
A panoramic view of the origins and development of the pension idea.
1 post
The Boom and the Bubble

by Robert Brenner

Brenner demonstrates that the new economy was always a fragile phenomenon.

22 posts

Merchants and Revolution

by Robert Brenner
A major reinterpretation of the transformation of English commerce in the century after 1550.
16 posts
Market-Driven Politics

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

by Naila Kabeer

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

2 posts

Beyond the New Paternalism

by Guy Standing
A call for new systems of regulation, social protection and redistribution.
2 posts
For Another Europe

by Guglielmo Carchedi
Guglielmo Carchedi argues that only an analysis centered on class as the basic unit of social life can throw light on the internal contradictions of European economic integration.
64 posts
Late Capitalism

by Ernest Mandel
”One of the major contributions of the last decade to Marxist economics.”—Choice
9 posts
Recasting Egalitarianism

by Sam Bowles and Herbert Gintis
Two prominent economists lead a debate to redistribute wealth.
1 post

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