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Abundance – How We Build a Better Future by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson

April 21, 2025 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Michael Roberts Abundance is a new book that has been attracting attention and debate among mainstream economists and politicians.  It aims to explain to Democrat members in the US why their party […]

Economics

The Power of Peasants – Economics and politics of farming in medieval Germany by Robert Dees

March 14, 2025 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Michael Roberts Dees argues that, contrary to mainstream economic history, peasants or farmers in overwhelmingly agricultural ancient and medieval economies played an essential role in advancing civilisation in Europe. Civilisation in this […]

Austerity

Taking Back Control? – States and State Systems After Globalism by Wolfgang Streeck

February 2, 2025 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Mathew D. Rose It is difficult to believe that it is just over thirty years since the establishment of the unipolar world under the US, the end of history, and the victory […]

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Joe Sacco: War On Gaza

January 23, 2025 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Avshalom Halutz, Ha’aretz About 25 years ago, when I was visiting London for the first time, a black-and-white comic emblazoned with the name “Palestine” caught my eye at a small bookstore. I […]

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James Galbraith – The Origins of the Modern Era of the Federal Reserve: Five Books

January 13, 2025 Mathew D. Rose 0

Fifty years ago the actions of the Federal Reserve mattered. Today, so far as the aggregate measures of the American domestic economy go, they do not. Books discussed in this essay: Sarah Binder and Mark […]

Austerity

Michael Roberts – Books of the year 2024

December 27, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 0

Every year at this time, I look back at the books that I have reviewed during the year on this blog. I’ll take them in chronological order. José Tapia had a new book on the […]

Geopolitics

Grand Strategies of the Left: The Foreign Policy of Progressive Worldmaking by Van Jackson

November 15, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Geoffrey Roberts Van Jackson’s Grand Strategies of the Left (2024) delineates three varieties of ‘progressive worldmaking’, each of which aspires to reshape the context that gives rise to traditional security problems in […]

Geopolitics

Peace and War Over Königsberg – Great Britain and the Destiny of Immanuel Kant’s Hometown by Gerfried Horst

October 29, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 3

Book Review by David Shirreff “I fully realise that … the killing of civilians when it is the result of bona-fide military activity is inevitable. But there must be a fair balance between the means […]

Economics

Tracking Marx’s Capital – Debates in Marxian Political Economy and Lessons for 21st Century Capitalism by Ahmet Tonak and Sungur Savran

October 13, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Michael Roberts In the Tracks of Marx’s Capital: Debates in Marxian Political Economy and Lessons for 21st Century Capitalism is an important new book by two well-known Marxist economists from Turkey. Ahmet […]

Economics

The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era by Gary Gerstle

August 22, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Branko Milanović The very well-written and easy to read book by Gary Gerstle (The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order) makes two key points. First, and continuing from Gerstle’s previous book […]

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

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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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