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Erik Olin Wright

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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.
15 posts
Against the Market

by David McNally
A devastating analysis of the flaws of market socialism.
5 posts
Against the Troika

by Heiner Flassbeck and Costas Lapavitsas
A radical anti-capitalist alternative to Eurozone austerity
154 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

Alpha City

by Rowland Atkinson

How London was bought and sold by the Super-Rich, and what it means for the rest of us
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
Banking on Death, Or Investing in Life

by Robin Blackburn
A panoramic view of the origins and development of the pension idea.
1 post
Beyond the New Paternalism

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

The Bonds of Debt

by Richard Dienst

Indebtedness as the universal condition of modern life

9 posts
The Boom and the Bubble

by Robert Brenner

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

22 posts
Buying Time

by Wolfgang Streeck

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

80 posts
Capital City

by Samuel Stein

“This superbly succinct and incisive book couldn’t be more timely or urgent.” —Michael Sorkin, author of All Over the Map

17 posts

Capitalism: A Ghost Story

by Arundhati Roy
An impassioned manifesto from the author of Booker-winner God of Small Things, one of the most vocal campaigners in the world
6 posts
Capitalism in the Web of Life

by Jason W. Moore

“Moore’s radical and rigorous work is, and richly deserves to be, agenda-setting.” – China Miéville

28 posts
The City

by Tony Norfield

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

13 posts
Class, Race, and Marxism

by David R. Roediger

Founder of whiteness studies surveys the race/class relationship

23 posts

A Companion to Marx's Capital, Volume 2

by David Harvey
The definitive guide to the second volume of Capital

27 posts
A Companion to Marx’s Capital: The Complete Edition

by David Harvey

9 posts
The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume II

by Rosa Luxemburg

Rosa Luxemburg’s theoretical masterpiece

25 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

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