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The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes by Zach Carter

June 9, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Branko Milanović Zachary Carter’s biography of Keynes “The price of peace” is not a typical biography. It opens when Keynes was 31 years of age in the Summer of 1914  working on […]

Economics

Vulture Capitalism by Grace Blakeley

May 9, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 0

Grace Blakeley is a media star of the radical left-wing of the British labour movement.  She is a columnist for the left-wing journal, Tribune, and a regular panellist on political debates in broadcasting – often […]

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Economics

Vulture Capitalism, by Grace Blakeley

May 8, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Book review by Michael Roberts. Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Her profile and popularity took her last book, Stolen, straight into the top 50 of all books on Amazon.  Her new book, entitled Vulture Capitalism: Corporate […]

Economics

The Order of Inequality: The Confucian Case by Tongdong Bai

April 12, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Branko Milanović Professor Tongdong Bai (whom I had the pleasure to meet in Shanghai and who kindly alerted me to his new book) has recently published a book called perhaps somewhat provocatively […]

Geopolitics

Collapse – The Fall of the Soviet Union by Vladislav M. Zubok

February 16, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 1

Book Review by Branko Milanović Vladislav M. Zubok’s splendid “Collapse” is a chronicle of the break-up of the Soviet Union. It opens with the appointment of Yuri Andropov in 1985 and ends at Christmas 1991 […]

Geopolitics

Subimperial power: Australia in the international arena by Clinton Fernandes

January 11, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Branko Milanović Are there states that are a part of the hierarchical global “imperial” order and fulfill “pro-consular” duties, but have non-negligible power of their own? I do not know if such […]

Austerity

The Richer, The Poorer: How Britain Enriched The Few and Failed the Poor – A Two Hundred Year History by Stewart Lansley

December 19, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Mathew D. Rose Michael Hudson is one of the most brilliant political economists of our time. In his prodigious and prolific thinking one often encounters a thought, many just one sentence, that […]

Austerity

The State of Capitalism: Economy, Society, and Hegemony by Costas Lapavitsas and the EReNSEP Writing Collective

December 4, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 1

Book Review by Mathew D. Rose Upon finishing The State of Capitalism: Economy, Society, and Hegemony by SOAS economics professor Costas Lapavitsas and the other ten members of the EReNSEP Writing Collective my question was: […]

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Economics

Visions of Inequality – From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War by Branko Milanović

October 9, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 1

Book Review by Mathew D. Rose Although the topic of inequality is vital to today’s discussions about politics and economics, it is surprising how little importance was attributed to it in the past. Until the […]

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Climate Crisis

Ben Wray: The Ministry for the Future – book review

September 25, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Kim Stanley Robinson’s acclaimed climate novel (2020, Orbit Books) has been praised far and wide, from Andreas Malm to Barack Obama. Robinson tells a gripping story about what our near future may look like, underpinned […]

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Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine by Avi Shlaim

January 15, 2026 0

Book Review by Hossam el-Hamalawy Avi Shlaim’s Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine is a book written in the midst of catastrophe, not after its dust has settled.  It is a work shaped […]

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After Nations – The Making and Unmaking of a World Order by Rana Dasgupta

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Reviewed by Branko Milanovic´ This new splendid and beautifully-written book by Rana Dasgupta has as its title After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order. The idea, briefly sketched in the introduction and […]

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