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

November 5, 2017 MDRose 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 MDRose 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 MDRose 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 MDRose 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 MDRose 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 MDRose 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 […]

Austerity

Joe Earle, Cahal Moran and Zach Ward-Perkins – The Econocracy: On the perils of leaving economics to the experts

September 24, 2017 MDRose 0

Book review by Mathew D. Rose I remember as a student at the history department of the University of California at Berkeley in the 1970s the first time a member of the teaching staff appeared […]

Finance

Ann Pettifor – The Production of Money: How to Break the Power of the Bankers

September 17, 2017 MDRose 0

Book Review by David Shirreff Ann Pettifor has good credentials: she was one of the few economists to spot the coming credit bubble in the developed world before 2007. Most colleagues had thought the financial […]

Finance

David Shirreff: Don’t start from here: We need a banking revolution

September 28, 2016 MDRose 0

Shireff has taken a long look at what has become of the much heralded banking reforms in the aftermath of the recent financial crisis and found them indigent. Don’t Start From Here “To inspire confidence, […]

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Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations by Christian Christiansen

June 11, 2026 0

Reviewed by Branko Milanović The just published book by Christian Christiansen Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations provides an intellectual review of the history of […]

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Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate by Dani Rodrik

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Book Review by Walden Bello Dani Rodrik has impeccable credentials as an economist. He is an expert in many areas, including trade and development, and is one of Harvard University’s leading lights. In recent years, […]

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