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...
Vegan Pie In My Mouth: First Impressions
So I was wondering around my local bookstore looking for holiday gift ideas and simply killing time. I ritually walked past the cookbook section and I saw a little twinkle in the corner of my eye. That twinkle was VEGAN PIE IN THE SKY by vegan cookbook queens Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero. I was crazy excited on my discovery because it was a week before Amazon’s labeled...
Wild Girls
The two best books I read this month—The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed—are far from new, published in 1969 and 1974, respectively. Their author is now eighty-one years old. Trying to describe their majesty, I feel like one of Ursula K. Le Guin’s intergalactic interlopers taking her first step on alien soil—I haven’t been so taken with an ulterior...
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....
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