Economic Systems & Structures

'A man of enormous intellect, knowledge and bravery' - Jeremy Corbyn MP 'Perhaps the most prominent Marxist thinker in the post-Soviet space' Ope...

Scholarly attempts to explain the development of liberal individualism over the course of modern history have tended to focus on key principles and...

A long-standing economic policy goal of the oil-dependent GCC countries is to increase economic diversification. Over the last decades, GCC governm...

The notion of rentier mentality has haunted the literature on the Gulf States for almost 40 years now. However, few studies have actually provided ...

From the late nineteenth century to the eve of World War II, Americas experts on Russia watched as Russia and the Soviet Union embarked on a course...

The fatal embrace of human rights and neoliberalismDrawing on detailed archival research on the parallel histories of human rights and neoliberalis...

Despite their commonalities, the Arab Gulf States have started economic diversification from different settings and against different political bac...

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...

Unable to analyse the dynamics of specific forms of social labour in the US, most US civil war historians have ignored its deep social roots. To se...

In this ground-breaking study, leading Gramsci scholar Guido Liguori unearths the philological pathways through which the Sardinian Communist's thi...

The Reproductive Bargain reveals the institutional sources of labour insecurities behind Japan's post-war employment system, and helps to explain t...

Hayek Book Prize FinalistAn Economist Best Book of the YearA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearA Financial Times Summer Reading FavoriteSweeping...

Capitalism has been linked to climate change, racism and slavery, wealth inequality, and the decline of democracy. At the same time, capitalism may...

Capitalism has been linked to climate change, racism and slavery, wealth inequality, and the decline of democracy. At the same time, capitalism may...

WILLA Literary Award Finalist in Creative Nonfiction  Finalist, Evans Handcart Award In the middle of the Great Depression, Montana native Julia Be...

This book identifies the crucial variables as classic Japanese forms of socio-political organization: the circles of compensation. These cooperativ...

The intersection of technology and sustainability is with a particular focus on the concept of the circular economy. Efficient resource use and was...

The untold story of the role of humanitarian NGOs in building the neoliberal order after empireAfter India gained independence in 1947, Britain rei...

This book intends to be a contribution to the varieties of capitalism paradigm. The theoretical background is Weber 's theory of legitimacy. Was co...

The neoliberal policy response to the crisis in Ghana did not succeed in reversing the economic decline in either the medium or long term. In fact,...

In Towards a Productive Aesthetics: Contemporary and Historical Interventions in Blake and Brecht, Keith O'Regan mobilises a constellative approach...

In The Precipice, Noam Chomsky sheds light into the phenomenon of Trumpism, exposes the catastrophic nature and impact of Trumps policies on people...

The Law of Accumulation and Breakdown of the Capitalist System, Being also a Theory of Crisis was Henryk Gross...

Alfred Sohn-Rethels Intellectual and Manual Labour is one of the major texts of post-war Marxist theory. A tremendous influence on the central figu...

In The Unity of the Capitalist Economy and State, Geert Reuten offers a systematic exposition of the capitalist system, showing that the capitalist...

Speaking Out of Place helps us find value and inspiration in others who have made change in the world where such things were not supposed to be pos...

As a research field, social movement and political project, degrowth is a multi-faceted phenomenon. It brings together a range of practices includi...

As a research field, social movement and political project, degrowth is a multi-faceted phenomenon. It brings together a range of practices includi...

Text in Arabic. Theres no such thing as a free market. Globalization isnt making the world richer. Poor countries are more entrepreneurial than ric...

Marx predicted in Capital (1867) that as capitalism became global, patterns of work would be transformed, and workers would need to develop versati...

Health inequalities are widening, and crises of obesity, physical inactivity and mental health are worsening around the world. Yet there remains a ...

Joseph Bowring places the dual economy in a historical context and analyzes the evolution of core and periphery competition. He also refines the du...