A comprehensive blueprint for a new post-capitalist order--which values our collective future over immediate economic gains The fate of all economic systems is written in the energy flows they obtain from the natural world. Our collective humanity very much depends on nature--for joy, for comfort, and for sheer survival. In his prescient new ......
A fresh look on the welfare system--with a view beyond the state With The Class Struggle and Welfare, David Matthews argues that we must understand the welfare state as a dialectical phenomenon--a product of class struggle. Confronting the hypocritical rhetoric of politicians who castigate welfare beneficiaries as lazy and "workshy," Matthews ......
Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and Capitalism S Final Crisis
John Smiths Imperialism in the Twenty First Century is a seminal examination of the relationship between the core capitalist countries and the rest of the world in the age of neoliberal globalization.
Renowned political economist Samir Amin, engaged in a unique lifelong effort both to narrate and affect the human condition on a global scale, brings his analysis up to the present--the world of 2013. The key events of our times--financial crisis, the emerging nations, globalization, financialization, political Islam, Euro-zone implosion--are ......
This volume examines how post-World War II US political economy was forged through international collaborations and conflicts Capitalism and the American Century argues that post-World War II, labor, business, and consumption in the United States cannot be understood as purely, or even primarily, domestic stories. US capitalism evolved not only ......
The History of Too Much and the End of Economic Primacy
Between March 2009 and February 2025, the S&P 500 index rose by more than 700%. In the same period, gold tripled in value, the average American home doubled in price, and cryptocurrencies crashed into existence and then soared to a total valuation of $3 trillion. But this vast accumulation of wealth is not a sign of economic health. The world is ......
The Impact and Legacy of Eric Williams's Trailblazing Work
Reexamining a seminal work on British capitalism and Caribbean slavery and its continuing reverberations in the twenty-first century Eric Williams's Capitalism and Slavery (1944), with its insightful and provocative theses about the relationship between Caribbean slavery and the growth of the British economy and the Industrial Revolution, has ......
The Impact and Legacy of Eric Williams's Trailblazing Work
Reexamining a seminal work on British capitalism and Caribbean slavery and its continuing reverberations in the twenty-first century Eric Williams's Capitalism and Slavery (1944), with its insightful and provocative theses about the relationship between Caribbean slavery and the growth of the British economy and the Industrial Revolution, has ......
During the first quarter-century after its founding, the United States was swept by a wave of land speculation so unprecedented in intensity and scale that contemporaries and historians alike have dubbed it a "mania." In Speculation Nation, Michael A. Blaakman uncovers the revolutionary origins of this real-estate bonanza-a story of ambition, ......
