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The Ways of the World by David Harvey

January 14, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by Mathew D. Rose David Harvey is considered one of the world’s leading experts on Karl Marx. If you have not encountered Harvey’s writing before here is the perfect introduction. This collection of […]

Economics

The Coming Crisis, Edited by Colin Hay and Tom Hunt

December 31, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by David Shirreff A good title does not guarantee a good book, and this one is good only in parts. Everyone would love to know where and when the next crisis will come, […]

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The Wealth Paradox: Economic Prosperity and the Hardening of Attitudes By Frank Mols and Jolanda Jetten

December 19, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by Eliane Glaser Originally published at Times Higher Education and cross-posted with their kind permission   Since the UK referendum on membership of the European Union and the election of Donald Trump as […]

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Can the Euro be saved? by Malcolm Sawyer

December 10, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by David Shirreff The answer is yes. But saving the euro will be immensely difficult, and will require political, ideological and institutional changes. The euro always had serious design flaws. Back in 1989, […]

Economics

Disintegrative Tendencies in Global Political Economy: Exits and Conflicts by Heikki Patomäki

December 3, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Mathew D. Rose Heikki Patomäki is Professor of World Politics at the University of Helsinki, an academic with passions which, despite the scholastic format (and price) of his newest book,Disintegrative Tendencies in […]

EU politics

Adults in the Room: My Battle with Europe’s Deep Establishment by Yanis Varoufakis

November 26, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by Christopher Collier How far should economists engage in day-to-day politics? “Researchers have an obligation to society to take positions on questions on which they have acquired professional competence,” says French economist Jean […]

Economics

Twilight of the Money Gods – Economics as a Religion and How it all Went Wrong by John Rapley

November 19, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Mathew D. Rose In 1944 two German philosophers, Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer, having fled from Nazi Germany to the United States, published their book The Dialectic of Enlightenment. It analysed […]

EU politics

Big Capital – who is London for? by Anna Minton

November 12, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Andrew Purves This is a short, informative and journalistic study of London’s housing crisis. It describes the effect of high housing costs – both to buy and rent, and gives many case […]

Economics

The Divide – A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions by Jason Hickel

November 5, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by Mathew D. Rose The subtitle of Jason Hickel’s book “The Divide” is something of an understatement. The book is neither brief, nor is it a guide. Instead Hickel has written a brilliant […]

Finance

A Sharing Economy: How Social Wealth Funds can Reduce Inequality and Help Balance the Books

October 29, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by Erica Frazier Cross-posted from the LSE Review of Books blog CEOs in the United Kingdom earn more than 180 times the wages of an average employee. In the six years following the […]

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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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After Nations – The Making and Unmaking of a World Order by Rana Dasgupta

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Reviewed by Branko Milanovic´ This new splendid and beautifully-written book by Rana Dasgupta has as its title After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order. The idea, briefly sketched in the introduction and […]

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