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Imagination: A Manifesto by Ruha Benjamin 9781324020974
RRP: $33.13$25.60A 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 Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America's Lost Promise of Economic Rights by Mark Paul
RRP: $40.95$32.90An urgent and galvanizing argument for an Economic Bill of Rights-and its potential to confer true freedom on all Americans. Since the Founding, Americans have debated the true meaning of freedom. For some, freedom meant the provision of life's... -
Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work by Nick Srnicek
RRP: $19.48$15.93Neoliberalism isn't working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant political practices that offer no respite.Inventing the Future is a bold new manifesto for life after... -
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World Malcolm Harris 9781529430875
RRP: $58.50$39.78The true, unvarnished history of the town at the heart of Silicon Valley.Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich, healthy, enterprising. Remnants of a hippie counterculture have synthesized with high technology and big... -
Why You Won't Get Rich: How Capitalism Broke its Contract with Hard Work by Robert Verkaik
RRP: $21.43$13.88From 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 Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View by Ellen Meiksins Wood
RRP: $19.48$15.93In The Origin of Capitalism, a now-classic work of history, Ellen Meiksins Wood offers readers a clear and accessible introduction to the theories and debates concerning the birth of capitalism, imperialism, and the modern nation state. Capitalism is not... -
Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
RRP: $35.10$25.78One of TIME magazine's All-TIME 100 Best Nonfiction Books One of Times Literary Supplement's Hundred Most Influential Books Since the War One of National Review's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Century One of Intercollegiate Studies... -
50 Economics Classics: Revised Edition by Tom Butler-Bowdon
RRP: $29.23$19.11Economics drives the modern world and shapes our lives, but few of us feel we have time to engage with the breadth of ideas in the subject. 50 Economics Classics is the smart person's guide to two centuries of discussion of finance, capitalism and the... -
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell
RRP: $39.00$27.87**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: $76.05$70.34How 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... -
Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance by Noam Chomsky 9780241482612
RRP: $29.23$21.35An 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... -
Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality by Angus Deaton 9780691247625
RRP: $39.00$28.37From 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... -
Capitalism: A Ghost Story by Arundhati Roy
RRP: $19.48$18.74In 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 Thomas Sowell Reader by Thomas Sowell
RRP: $58.50$42.43These 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... -
On Western Terrorism: From Hiroshima to Drone Warfare Noam Chomsky (Massachusetts Institute Of Technology) 9780745399317
RRP: $33.13$22.50Admired 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... -
Struggle Is What Makes Us Human by Vijay Prashad
RRP: $25.33$16.83An 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... -
How to Read Marx's Capital: Commentary and Explanations on the Beginning Chapters by Michael Heinrich
RRP: $43.88$36.58With 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... -
The New World Disorder: how the West is destroying itself by Peter Neumann 9781915590145
RRP: $39.00$26.25'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... -
Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World by Branko Milanovic 9780674987593
RRP: $48.65$39.57A 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... -
This Civilisation Is Finished: Conversations on the End of Empire - And What Lies Beyond by Rupert Read 9780994282835
RRP: $27.20$19.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994282835Author Rupert ReadFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Simplicity InstitutePublisher Simplicity InstituteWeight(grams) 132g -
Greed Is Dead: Politics After Individualism by Paul Collier
RRP: $19.48$13.86Two 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... -
The Disenchanted Earth: Reflections on Ecosocialism and Barbarism by Richard Seymour 9781911648413
RRP: $19.48$13.26From 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... -
Capital and Imperialism: Theory, History, and the Present by Utsa Patnaik
RRP: $39.00$32.06Those 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... -
The Wealth of a Nation: Institutional Foundations of English Capitalism by Geoffrey M. Hodgson 9780691247014
RRP: $68.25$54.09How 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... -
Futilitarianism: On Neoliberalism and the Production of Uselessness Neil Vallelly 9781912685905
RRP: $52.65$34.30Apologies 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 -
The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business by David T. Courtwright 9780674248229
RRP: $33.05$27.01"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... -
The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity by Eugene McCarraher
RRP: $66.20$55.40Far 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... -
Beyond The Periphery Of The Skin: Rethinking, Remaking, Reclaiming the Body in Contemporary Capitalism by Silvia Federici
RRP: $31.18$17.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629637068Author Silvia FedericiFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
The Most Beautiful Job in the World by Giulia Mensitieri 9781350110168
RRP: $46.78$38.57"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... -
When More Is Not Better: Overcoming America's Obsession with Economic Efficiency Roger L. Martin 9781647820060
RRP: $42.90$30.99American 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... -
Capitalism: The Story behind the Word by Michael Sonenscher
RRP: $42.90$33.85How 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: $60.35$47.62An 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... -
Never Turn Back: China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s by Julian Gewirtz
RRP: $54.50$43.97A 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 Guglielmo Carchedi (Amsterdam University) 9780745340883
RRP: $38.98$26.03Contemporary 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 World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L Friedman 9780312425074
RRP: $44.85$27.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312425074Author Thomas L FriedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 208mm... -
Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World by Peter S. Goodman
RRP: $39.00$36.45A 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: $48.75$39.55Explores 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: $33.13$24.73From 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: $29.23$24.53Apologies 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)... -
Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich: How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey 9780226823980
RRP: $31.20$26.99The economist and historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has been best known recently for her Bourgeois Era trilogy, a vigorous defense, unrivaled in scope, of commercially tested betterment. Its massive volumes, The Bourgeois Virtues, Bourgeois Dignity,...