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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

3 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

4 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,...
4 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 Casino Economy: Planning for the 1990s

by Nichloas Costello, Jonathan Michie, et al.

Beyond the New Paternalism

by Guy Standing
A call for new systems of regulation, social protection and redistribution.
2 posts
Beyond the Wasteland: A Democratic Alternative to Economic Decline

by Sam Bowles, David C. Gordon, et al.
The Bonds of Debt

by Richard Dienst

Indebtedness as the universal condition of modern life

10 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
Cannibal Capitalism: How Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It

by Nancy Fraser

A trenchant look at contemporary capitalism’s insatiable appetite - and a rallying cry for everyone who wants to stop it from devouring our world

12 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

25 posts
Capitalism: A Ghost Story

by Arundhati Roy

10 posts

Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory

by Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi

A scintillating conversation on capitalism and crisis from two of our most incisive political philosophers
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 Care Crisis

by Emma Dowling

What is care and who is paying for it?

8 posts
The City

by Tony Norfield

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

13 posts

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