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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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Transformation of Ecological Economics by Ove Jakobsen

January 21, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by Svein Hammer There are those who still quibble, but most now recognise that our way of living has brought us to the edge of a cliff, where the threat of global crises […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform by Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian

March 27, 2026 0

Book Review by Branko Milanović Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian’s The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform is a book about how China transformed itself between the Great Leap Forward and the early […]

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

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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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