Book Reviews
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Property is Theft! A Proudhon Anthology
Every time I look through this book, I'm amazed at the sheer amount and quality of material in it, and the scholarly apparatus included with it. As I keep telling people, the last major Proudhon anthology out there -- if you can call it that -- was Stewart Edwards' Selected Writings of P. J. Proudhon. Calling Selected Writings an anthology is generous. Its format was actually...
Economics Unmasked
Manfred Max-Neef is a Chilean-German economist noted for his pioneering work in human scale development and his threshold hypothesis on the relation of welfare to GDP, as well as other contributions, for which he received the Right Livelihood Award in 1983. Phillip B. Smith (deceased, 2005) was an American–Dutch physicist with a devotion to social justice that led to an interest in...
'Debt: The First 5,000 Years': Mankind's Millenia Long Obligation
When you're faced with a seemingly intractable problem, sometimes there's nothing as useful as an outsider's perspective. Someone who, not carrying all of your preconceived ideas about what's right or possible, sees things you simply cannot. And so, four years after the mortgage meltdown nearly sank the global economy, with millions of Americans mired in debt, the U.S....
Capital and Its Discontents: Conversations with Radical Thinkers in a Time of Tumult
This rich selection of interviews with left-wing intellectuals and activists mostly grows out of the syndicated Pacifica Radio program Against the Grain, cofounded by host and author Lilley. Lilley (and in one case her colleague, cofounder C.S. Soong) engages this international assortment of thinkers--from the well-known (David Harvey) to the less widely familiar (Doug Henwood,...
In and Out of Crisis: A Review
Among the many books on the contemporary economic crisis, In and Out of Crisis is in a class of its own. Three prominent scholar-activists have teamed up to provide an insightful and provocative analysis of the crisis and its implications for the future of neoliberalism, the American empire and the North American Left. In doing so, this new book picks up themes common to Panitch and...
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