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Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by Kate Raworth

June 25, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by Branko Milanovic My first Summer book to read and review is Kate Raworth’s very successful “Doughnut economics: Seven ways to think like the 21st-century economist”. It is an ambitious book whose objective […]

Finance

The Politics of Financial Risk, Audit and Regulation: A Case Study of HBOS by Atul K. Shah

June 11, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

A book review by Prabhu Sivabalan In The Politics of Financial Risk, Audit and Regulation: A Case Study of HBOS, Atul K. Shah examines the HBOS collapse of 2008, and uses it as a platform to […]

Economics

Flawed Capitalism: The Anglo-American Condition and its Resolution by David Coates

June 3, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by Scott Lavery Global orders rise and global orders fall. That much we know. The difficult questions arise when we examine those moments of transition between phases of capitalist development. The post-crash world […]

Finance

It’s Basic Income: The Global Debate edited by Amy Downes and Stewart Lansley

May 24, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by Mathew D. Rose Universal Basic Income, or UBI as it is abbreviated, is without a doubt a popular topic. The problem is that behind the emotional hype there is a lot of […]

Corruption

Beancounters – The Triumph of the Accountants and How they broke Capitalism by Richard Brooks

May 16, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by Atul K. Shah As Private Eye journalist, Richard Brooks has long been responsible for exposing corporate corruption, especially around tax avoidance and evasion. One story kept on repeating in his research – […]

Finance

The People Vs Tech by Jamie Bartlett

April 29, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by David Beer   Is technology undermining democracy? Do we ever really know how we arrive at our political views? The pixelated vision of the near future offered in Jamie Bartlett’s new book […]

Corruption

Reckless opportunists: Elites at the end of the Establishment by Aeron Davis

April 15, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by David Shirreff Oxford, Cambridge and the old school tie used to be a passport to the pinnacles of what was known as the Establishment. Things have changed, but not much, and not […]

Austerity

Reclaiming the State: A Progressive Vision of Sovereignty for a Post-Neoliberal World by William Mitchell and Thomas Fazi

March 15, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by Mathew D. Rose According to Bill Mitchell the book’s original title was “Reclaiming the Nation State”. The progressive publisher wanted the word nation removed. The term “Nation State”, claimed the publisher, was […]

Climate Crisis

Will big business destroy our planet? By Peter Dauvergne

February 11, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by Kieran Cooke Big business says it’s leading the world to a sustainable future. But a new book says that’s a highly implausible claim. Transnational corporations, or TNCs, or just plain big business, […]

EU politics

Why the left loses: The Decline of the Centre-Left in Comparative Perspective edited by Rob Manwaring and Paul Kennedy

February 4, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by David Shirreff This is a rather defeatist book, as the title suggests. Through a number of slightly repetitive articles it traces the sad and unrelenting loss of popular support among the social […]

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Germany’s Jewish Problem: Genocides Past and Present by Wieland Hoban

March 4, 2026 0

Reviewed by Raymond Deane On 30 January, Uwe Becker – the so-called commissioner for Jewish life and the fight against anti-Semitism in the German state of Hesse – demanded that the organization Jewish Voice for […]

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Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine by Avi Shlaim

January 15, 2026 0

Book Review by Hossam el-Hamalawy Avi Shlaim’s Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine is a book written in the midst of catastrophe, not after its dust has settled.  It is a work shaped […]

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