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Exhuming Franco: Spain’s Second Transition by Sebastiaan Faber

September 23, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Chris Bambery The removal of General Francisco Franco’s remains, in the autumn of 2019, from the hideous mausoleum he had built for himself and the founder of Spain’s fascist party, the Falange, […]

Economics

How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate by Isabella M. Weber

September 8, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by George Hong Jiang China’s economic growth has been eye-catching. The story mostly began in the early 1980s, as the Chinese government introduced the ‘Reform and Opening Up’ policy to transform the socialist […]

Climate Crisis

Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century by Andreas Malm

July 28, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Ben Wray If the events of the past year and a half haven’t got you thinking about the importance of ecological catastrophe to the politics of the 21st century, nothing will. Following […]

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The Despotism of Workplace Flexibility by Alex J. Wood

May 26, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review byThomas Klikauer, Nadine Campbell – The Despotism of Workplace Flexibility by Alex J. Wood Cross-posted from Marx & Philosophy Review of Books Despotism on Demand comes with the well-deserved praise of two seminal […]

Economics

Africa’s Last Colonial Currency: The CFA Franc Story by Fanny Pigeaud and Ndongo Samba Sylla

May 13, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by Maurice Höfgen and Julien Mathieu Niemann »There is nothing more political than money.« This simple sentence is the very quintessence of the book. Fanny Pigeaud and Ndongo Samba Sylla explain the history, […]

Austerity

Post Growth: Life after Capitalism by Tim Jackson

April 10, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Mathew D. Rose On Monday, 12 April at 8pm CET, BRAVE NEW EUROPE  will be presenting a Webinar with Tim Jackson about his book Post Growth. There will be a simultaneous Translation […]

Austerity

Heterodox Challenges in Economics by Sergio Cesaratto

February 24, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 1

Book Review by Mathew D. Rose Puoi leggere questa recensione del libro in italiano qui I never thought that I would describe an economics book as “a delightful read”, but “Heterodox Challenges in Economics” by […]

Corruption

Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World by Tom Burgis

January 27, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by David Shirreff First, the good news. This is undoubtedly a useful book. It is a mine of information and anecdote, cleverly told, about the kleptocrats who apparently move untroubled around the world […]

EU politics

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

January 9, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 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 Mathew D. Rose 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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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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