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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 […]

Finance

Can we avoid another financial crisis? by Steve Keen

October 22, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by Mathew D. Rose Steve Keen has a credential that few macro-economists can boast of: He foresaw the coming of the financial crash of 2007. In his latest book, “Can we avoid another […]

Austerity

The Corruption of Capitalism – Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay by Guy Standing

October 15, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by Mathew D. Rose In 2011 Guy Standing wrote a book titled “The Precariat – The New Dangerous Class”, which showed great prescience. By the second paragraph he had already predicted what would […]

Finance

Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing by Josh Ryan-Collins, Toby Lloyd and Laurie Macfarlane

October 9, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by Andrew Purves This is an excellent and timely book, re-connecting us with where we stand, what we rely on for all our daily needs, and with something that has been misplaced as […]

EU politics

The Violence of Austerity – Edited by Vickie Cooper and David Whyte

October 1, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Mathew D. Rose There are relatively few books dealing explicitly with austerity, and most of those come at it from a macro-economic angle. Thus it is refreshing to find a book that […]

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EU politics

Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler

August 10, 2025 0

Book review by  Branko Milanović As I walked yesterday past the Metropolitan Museum in New York, I saw, among many stands that sell all kinds of trinkets, a table filled with books. One attracted my […]

Economics

The Spectre of State Capitalism by Ilias Alami and Adam D Dixon

July 2, 2025 0

Reviewed by J. D. Evans Alami and Dixon’s The Spectre of State Capitalism is a careful discussion of a topic often dealt with in platitudes and sound-bites. The authors cover uses of ‘state capitalism’ as […]

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