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The Gig Economy: A Critical Introduction, by Jamie Woodcock and Mark Graham

July 23, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 1

Book review by Ben Wray What is the gig economy, and what isn’t? How did it come into being? How is it changing work? The Gig Economy Project reviews a new introduction to the topic. […]

Finance

The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins

May 21, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by  Branko Milanović In the speech to the European Youth in Brussels in March 2014, the then-president Obama, speaking of American-led alliances across the world after World War II said the following:  “And […]

Corruption

A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain 1874-2018 by Paul Preston

March 7, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Chris Bambery “Spain is Different” – that was the slogan devised in the 1960’s to sell the country as a popular tourism destination. And Spain is different as this wonderfully rich book […]

EU politics

MARKET-STATE-PRISON under Spanish Neoliberalism by Dani Jiménez

February 12, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Taken from the forward by Steve Tombs and David Whyte In September 2019, the Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Barcelona, Iñaki Rivera, a long-term colleague of Dani Jiménez’s and a friend of […]

Climate Crisis

Limits: Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care by Giorgos Kallis

January 27, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Andrew J. Sutter From one point of view, this book is part of the literature about degrowth, a field of study and advocacy that critiques economic growth and, ideally, proposes policies that could […]

Economics

The New Enclosure: The Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain by Brett Christophers

December 17, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Michael Roberts I should have reviewed Brett Christophers’ book, The New Enclosure, when it came out this time last year.  But better late than never. In 2017, Christophers, professor in Human Geography […]

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The Debt Delusion by John Weeks

November 14, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 1

Book review by Mathew D. Rose When Ha-Joon Chang exhorted: “We need an economic literacy campaign so people understand the language used by the ruling class”, he was probably thinking of books like John Weeks’ […]

Economics

Capital in the 21st Century by Thomas Piketty

October 22, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Michael Roberts Back in 2014, French economist Thomas Piketty published a blockbuster book, Capital in the 21st century.  Repeating the name of Marx’s Capital, the implication of the title was that it […]

Economics

Capitalism, Alone by Branko Milanović

September 23, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Mathew D. Rose The highest praise that I have usually lavished on a book- and this book certainly fulfils this – is: “It has changed my way of thinking about a topic”. […]

Climate Crisis

Change! Why We Need a Radical Turnaround by Graeme Maxton

August 7, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by Hauke Benner Over 180 pages, Graeme Maxton criticises governments, corporations and entrepreneurs, especially in rich countries, for complete failure in the face of the threat of climate collapse and calls for “a […]

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This Is Not Normal: The Collapse of Liberal Britain by Will Davies

January 9, 2021 0

Book Review by Sean Kippin There is a particular brand of UK media figure. Usually male, they revel in the gossip, intrigue and parlour games of British politics. Policy seems to bore them. Economic policy is […]

EU politics

The Call of Catalonia by Sue Crampton

December 14, 2020 0

Book Review by Toni Strubell Sue Crampton’s “The Call of Catalonia”, apart from being a good read, is a book that will be useful to those wondering what the recent kerfuffle was about with the […]

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