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Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism by Amelia Horgan
RRP: £9.99£6.80***Evening Standard's best non-fiction 2021*** 'A brilliant, searing expose of the lies underpinning work' - Owen Jones 'Work hard, get paid.' It's simple. Self-evident. But it's also a lie-at least for most of us. For people today, the old... -
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell
RRP: £20.00£14.29**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**We're living on the wrong clock. And it's destroying us.'To read it is ... to experience how freedom might feel' Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand WeeksOur life is dominated by the corporate clock that so many of... -
Rethinking Racial Capitalism: Questions of Reproduction and Survival by Gargi Bhattacharyya 9781783488858
RRP: £37.00£35.41How has capitalism created or enhanced racism? In what ways do the violent histories of slavery and empire continue to influence the allocation of global resources? Rethinking Racial Capitalism: Questions of Reproduction and Survival proposes a... -
Maoism: A Global History by Julia Lovell
RRP: £14.99£10.95WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2019SHORLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2019'A landmark work giving a global panorama of Mao's ideology filled with historic events and enlivened by striking characters' Jonathan Fenby, author of The Penguin... -
Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality by Angus Deaton 9780691247625
RRP: £20.00£15.54From the Nobel Prize–winning economist and New York Times bestselling coauthor of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, candid reflections on the economist’s craftWhen economist Angus Deaton immigrated to the United States from Britain in the... -
Wealth, Poverty and Politics by Thomas Sowell
RRP: £35.00£22.83In Wealth, Poverty, and Politics , Dr. Thomas Sowell of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, examines the reasons for large differences in income and wealth between nations and among groups within nations. A wide range of geographic,... -
The New World Disorder: how the West is destroying itself by Peter Neumann 9781915590145
RRP: £20.00£13.46'A far-sighted analysis of the world order, and an urgent warning of what the future may hold in store.' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads 'Excellent ... In the face of countries such as China and Russia challenging the US-led international... -
Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance by Noam Chomsky 9780241482612
RRP: £14.99£10.95An essential primer on capitalism, politics and how the world works, based on the hugely popular undergraduate lecture series 'What is Politics?'Is there an alternative to capitalism? In this landmark text Chomsky and Waterstone chart a critical map for... -
The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business by David T. Courtwright 9780674248229
RRP: £16.95£13.54"A mind-blowing tour de force that unwraps the myriad objects of addiction that surround us...Intelligent, incisive, and sometimes grimly entertaining."-Rod Phillips, author of Alcohol: A History"A fascinating history of corporate America's efforts to... -
Capitalism: A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy
RRP: £9.99£6.64In Capitalism: A Ghost Story, best-selling writer Arundhati Roy examines the dark side of Indian democracy--a nation of 1.2 billion, where the country's 100 richest people own assets worth one quarter of India's gross domestic product. Ferocious and... -
The Wealth of a Nation: Institutional Foundations of English Capitalism by Geoffrey M. Hodgson 9780691247014
RRP: £35.00£27.21How the development of legal and financial institutions transformed Britain into the world's first capitalist countryModern capitalism emerged in England in the eighteenth century and ushered in the Industrial Revolution, though scholars have long... -
On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal by Naomi Klein
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Naomi Klein's work has always moved and guided me. She is the great chronicler of our age of climate emergency, an inspirer of generations' - Greta Thunberg For more than twenty years Naomi Klein's books have defined our era, chronicling the... -
Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World by Branko Milanovic 9780674987593
RRP: £24.95£19.88A provocative account of capitalism's rise to global dominance and, as different models of capitalism vie for world leadership, a look into what the future may hold. We are all capitalists now. For the first time in human history, the globe is... -
On Western Terrorism: From Hiroshima to Drone Warfare by Noam Chomsky
RRP: £16.99£11.54Admired by some, condemned by others, and feared by all-the military might of the West is undeniably colossal. In On Western Terrorism, world-renowned intellectual Noam Chomsky discusses Western power and propaganda with filmmaker and investigative... -
How to Read Marx's Capital: Commentary and Explanations on the Beginning Chapters by Michael Heinrich
RRP: £22.50£18.37With the recent revival of Karl Marx's theory, a general interest in reading Capital has also increased. But Capital - Marx's foundational nineteenth century work on political economy - is by no means considered an easily understood text. Central... -
Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World by Peter S. Goodman 9780063078314
RRP: £14.99£9.70A San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller * An NPR Best Book of the YearThe New York Times's Global Economics Correspondent masterfully reveals how billionaires' systematic plunder of the world-brazenly accelerated during the pandemic-has transformed... -
Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World by Branko Milanovic
RRP: £17.95£14.28An Economist Book of the YearA Financial Times Book of the YearA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearA Prospect Best Book of the YearA ProMarket Book of the YearAn Omidyar Network "8 Storytellers Informing How We've been Reimagining Capitalism"... -
Imagination: A Manifesto by Ruha Benjamin 9781324020974
RRP: £16.99£14.15A world without prisons? Ridiculous. Schools that foster the genius of every child? Impossible. A society where everyone has food, shelter, love? In your dreams. Exactly. Princeton professor Ruha Benjamin believes in the liberating power of the... -
The Precipice: Neoliberalism, the Pandemic, and the Urgent Need for Radical Change: Neoliberalism, the Pandemic and Urgent Need for Radical Change by Noam Chomsky
RRP: £12.99£8.63In The Precipice, Noam Chomsky sheds light into the phenomenon of Trumpism, exposes the catastrophic nature and impact of Trump's policies on people, the environment, and the planet as a whole, and captures the dynamics of the brutal class warfare... -
The Disenchanted Earth: Reflections on Ecosocialism and Barbarism by Richard Seymour 9781911648413
RRP: £9.99£6.86From Richard Seymour, one of the UK's leading public intellectuals, comes a characteristic blend of forensic insight and analysis, personal journey, and a vivid respect for the natural world. A planetary fever-dream. An environmental awakening that... -
The Thomas Sowell Reader by Thomas Sowell
RRP: £30.00£19.80These selections from the many writings of Thomas Sowell over a period of a half century cover social, economic, cultural, legal, educational, and political issues. The sources range from Dr. Sowell's letters, books, newspaper columns, and articles in... -
The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity by Eugene McCarraher
RRP: £33.95£27.89Far from displacing religions, as has been supposed, capitalism became one, with money as its deity. Eugene McCarraher reveals how mammon ensnared us and how we can find a more humane, sacramental way of being in the world.If socialists and Wall Street... -
The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World by James Burnham 9781839013188
RRP: £14.99£11.66'Burnham has real intellectual courage, and writes about real issues.' - George Orwell Burnham's claim was that capitalism was dead, but that it was being replaced not by socialism, but a new economic system he called "managerialism"; rule by managers... -
Capital and Imperialism: Theory, History, and the Present by Utsa Patnaik
RRP: £20.00£16.09Those who control the world's commanding economic heights, buttressed by the theories of mainstream economists, presume that capitalism is a self-contained and self-generating system. Nothing could be further from the truth. In this pathbreaking... -
Greed Is Dead: Politics After Individualism by Paul Collier
RRP: £9.99£7.11Two of the UK's leading economists call for an end to extreme individualism as the engine of prosperity 'provocative but thought-provoking and nuanced' TelegraphThroughout history, successful societies have created institutions which channel both... -
Struggle Is What Makes Us Human by Vijay Prashad
RRP: £12.99£8.63An incisive and inspiring call to look beyond capitalism to chart a road map for a planet ravaged by pandemics, climate crisis, and wars.Prompted by trenchant questions by international solidarity organizer Frank Barat, renowned author and activist Vijay... -
Futilitarianism: Neoliberalism and the Production of Uselessness by Neil Vallelly
RRP: £27.00£17.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912685905Author Neil VallellyFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Goldsmiths, Unversity of LondonPublisher Goldsmiths, Unversity of London -
Capitalism: The Story behind the Word by Michael Sonenscher
RRP: £22.00£16.99How the history of a word sheds new light on capitalism and modern politicsWhat exactly is capitalism? How has the meaning of capitalism changed over time? And what's at stake in our understanding or misunderstanding of it? In Capitalism, Michael... -
The Class Matrix: Social Theory after the Cultural Turn by Vivek Chibber
RRP: £30.95£23.93An influential sociologist revives materialist explanations of class, while accommodating the best of rival cultural theory.Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, analysis of class and other basic structures of capitalism was sidelined by theorists... -
On Property by Rinaldo Walcott
RRP: £9.99£6.75From plantation rebellion and Indigenous land theft to prison labor's super-exploitation, Walcott examines the relationship between policing and property. That a man can lose his life for passing a fake $20 bill, when we know our economies are flush... -
In Defense of Capitalism by Rainer Zitelmann 9781645720737
RRP: £26.95£19.81Rainer Zitelmann examines the ten most common objections to capitalism: capitalism leads to hunger and poverty, to rising inequality, to unnecessary consumption, to environmental destruction, to climate change and wars. Capitalism, its critics say,... -
Nation of Victims: Identity Politics, the Death of Merit, and the Path Back to Excellence by Vivek Ramaswamy
RRP: £25.00£16.38Hardship is now equated with victimhood. Outward displays of vulnerability in defeat are celebrated over winning unabashedly. The pursuit of excellence and exceptionalism are at the heart of American identity, and the disappearance of these ideals in our... -
When More Is Not Better: Overcoming America's Obsession with Economic Efficiency by Roger L. Martin
RRP: £22.00£15.89American democratic capitalism is in danger. How can we save it?For its first two hundred years, the American economy exhibited truly impressive performance. The combination of democratically elected governments and a capitalist system worked, with... -
Never Turn Back: China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s by Julian Gewirtz
RRP: £27.95£22.10A BBC History Magazine Best Book of the YearA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearThe history the Chinese Communist Party has tried to erase: the dramatic political debates of the 1980s that could have put China on a path to greater openness.On a hike... -
Capitalism in the 21st Century: Through the Prism of Value by Michael Roberts
RRP: £19.99£13.35Contemporary capitalism is always evolving. From digital technologies to cryptocurrencies, current trends in political economy are much discussed, but often little understood. So where can we turn for clarity? As Michael Roberts and Guglielmo Carchedi... -
The Most Beautiful Job in the World by Giulia Mensitieri 9781350110168
RRP: £23.99£19.35"A powerful expose of Parisian haute couture" - Book of the Week, Times Higher Education Fashion is one of the most powerful industries in the world, accounting for 6% of global consumption and growing steadily. Since the 1980s and the birth of the... -
Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World by Peter S. Goodman
RRP: £20.00£19.58A San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller * An NPR Best Book of the YearThe New York Times's Global Economics Correspondent masterfully reveals how billionaires' systematic plunder of the world-brazenly accelerated during the pandemic-has transformed... -
Capitalism in the Anthropocene: Ecological Ruin or Ecological Revolution by John Bellamy Foster
RRP: £25.00£19.86Explores capitalism's role in creating the current state of climate emergency Over the last 11,700 years, during which human civilization developed, the earth has existed within what geologists refer to as the Holocene Epoch. Now science is telling us... -
Why You Won't Get Rich by Robert Verkaik
RRP: £16.99£12.68From the bottom to the top of our economy, capitalism is too blunt an instrument to tackle Britain's epidemic of inequality. Soaring rents, unfair taxation and a growing gig economy have brought about unprecedented economic shame: Amazon warehouse... -
The Myth of Black Capitalism: New Edition by Earl Ofari Hutchinson 9781685900311
RRP: £14.99£12.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685900311Author Earl Ofari HutchinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...