Political economy

Singapore has gained a reputation for being one of the wealthiest and best-educated countries in the world and one of the brightest success stories for a colony-turned-sovereign state, but the country's path to success was anything but assured.

Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders owed much of their unexpected popularity in the 2016 primaries to their respective stances on trade and immigration policy.

The rise of a populist conservative nationalism in the United States has triggered unease at home and abroad.

Natural resources like oil and minerals are the largest source of unaccountable power in the world.

Modern-day markets do not arise spontaneously or evolve naturally.

For decades, Africa was falling apart.

Is China building a new empire in rural Africa?

For many observers, the European Union is mired in a deep crisis.

Finance is an inescapable part of American life.

The 2016 presidential election was unlike any other in recent memory, and Donald Trump was an entirely different kind of candidate than voters were used to seeing.

China's reform era is ending.

Every day across America, consumers face issues with credit cards, mortgages, car loans, and student loans.

For many observers, the European Union is mired in a deep crisis.

The end of the Cold War ushered in an age of American triumphalism best characterized by the "e;Washington Consensus:"e; the idea that free markets, democratic institutions, limitations on government involvement in the economy, and the rule of law were the foundations of prosperity and stability.

The loans ordinary Americans take out to purchase homes and attend college often leave them in a sea of debt.

China's reform era is ending.

Finance is an inescapable part of American life.

The loans ordinary Americans take out to purchase homes and attend college often leave them in a sea of debt.

There was a time when the phrase "e;American family"e; conjured up a single, specific image: a breadwinner dad, a homemaker mom, and their 2.

For decades, Africa was falling apart.

Modern-day markets do not arise spontaneously or evolve naturally.

Singapore has gained a reputation for being one of the wealthiest and best-educated countries in the world and one of the brightest success stories for a colony-turned-sovereign state, but the country's path to success was anything but assured.

Europe has not been so weak and divided for a long time.

When Value and Naturalism in Marx was first published in English in 1979, recent controversies in socialist economic theory had been concentrated on the tenability or untenability of Marx's labour theory of value.

The question of ownership is the critical fault line of our times.

In this landmark book, the author of The New Enclosure provides a forensic examination and sweeping critique of early-twenty-first-century capitalism.

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What if the problems of modern society don't come from production, but rather consumption and the system of cultural signs?

Exploring the genesis of neoliberalism, and the political and economic circumstances of its deployment, Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval dispel numerous common misconceptions.

This influential collection of essays focuses on the elusive concept of "e;value,"e; and aims to answer the question "e;Why is Marx's theory of value so important?

According to leading economist Ann Pettifor, one of the few people to predict the 2008 financial crisis, money is not a commodity but a promise.

The financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 still has the world on tenterhooks.

Historian and political thinker Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that theories of "e;postmodern"e; fragmentation, "e;difference"e;, and contingency can barely accommodate the idea of capitalism, let alone subject it to critique.

On the 25th January 2015 the Greek people voted in an election of historic importance-not just for Greece but potentially all of Europe.

The republication of Suzanne de Brunhoff's classic investigation into Karl Marx's conception of "e;the money commodity"e; shines light on commodities and their fetishism.

In Capitalism: A Ghost Story, best-selling writer Arundhati Roy examines the dark side of Indian democracy - a nation of 1.

Silicon Valley titans, politicians, techno-futurists and social critics have united in arguing that we are living on the cusp of an era of rapid technological automation, heralding the end of work as we know it.

In this republication of the 1971 original, Ernest Mandel traces the development of Marx's economic ideas from the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts to the completion of the Grundrisse.

In How Will Capitalism End?

Much has been written about Britain's trailblazing post-1970s privatization program, but the biggest privatization of them all has until now escaped scrutiny: the privatization of land.

Fully Automated Luxury Communism promises a radically new left future for everyone.

What would a viable free and democratic society look like?

In 1776 Adam Smith (1723-90) wrote The Wealth of Nations , a book so foundational it has led to him being called the 'father of economics'.

What is capitalism?

John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) is a central thinker of the twentieth century, not just an economic theorist and statesman, but also in economics, philosophy, politics, and culture.

A revealing-and chilling-expose on the hidden side of global wealth and powerA revealing-and chilling-expose on the hidden side of global wealth and power Offshore is an unprecedented exploration of perhaps the most mysterious aspect of global society today-and one of the most provocative books about money and business to appear in the decade since the age of globalization began.