Economic Systems & Structures

How the history of a word sheds new light on capitalism and modern politicsWhat exactly is capitalism? How has the meaning of capitalism changed ov...

*Selected by Emma Watson for her Ultimate Book List* Fashion is political. From the red carpets of the Met Gala to online fast fashion, clothes te...

Globalization, surely one of the most used and abused buzzwords of recent decades, describes a phenomenon that is typically considered to be a neu...

In the twenty-first century, acting in the economic sphere in order to avoid or reduce harm to others is widely acknowledged as an ethical imperati...

The War on Cash: How Banks and a Power-Hungry Government Want to Confiscate Your Cash, Steal Your Liberty and Track Every Dollar You Spend. And How...

A comprehensive primer on the key figures of the Marxist tradition. The readings collected here - of Marx, Engels, Luxemburg, Lenin, Trotsky and Gr...

Contents include The Vacation Is Over: Implications for the Caribbean of Opening U.S.-Cuba Tourism Rafael Romeu (IMF) The Part-Time Premium Enigma:...

The Transatlantic Economy annual surveys have become a standard reference for businesses, policymakers, and media interested in the changing role o...

This pathbreaking book tells the dramatic story of a unique manufacturing complex and the city that it helped to create. The events recounted and i...

How slave emancipation transformed capitalism in the United States and BrazilIn the nineteenth century, the United States and Brazil were the large...

In this major new book, Andre Gorz expands on the political implications of his prescient and influential Paths to Paradise and Critique of Economi...

The financial crisis keeps us on edge and creates a diffuse sense of helplessness. Well-nigh unfathomable problems lead to measures that seem like ...

In this provocative study, economist Ernesto Screpanti argues that imperialism--far from disappearing or mutating into a benign globalization --ha...

What was a Buddhist monk doing at the 2014 World Economic Forum in Davos lecturing the world's leaders on mindfulness? Why do many successful corpo...

'Market failure' is a term widely used by politicians, journalists and university and A-level economics students and teachers. However, those who u...

We obsess about what our politicians are doing, but ignore that our companies are no longer investing, instead they are focusing on next quarter'''...

Our current neoliberal capitalist economic system is based on unethical values. The twentieth century economist John Maynard Keynes recognized this...

The need for pension reform is widely discussed against the backdrop of falling fertility rates and rising longevity. These developments challenge ...

This book is an insightful study of the transition economy, using the little-known case of Belarus, a country trapped in transition for almost thre...