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Cina L’Irresistibile Ascesa di Alberto Bradanini 

March 9, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

Recensione del libro di Andrea Puccio (Originariamente pubblicato su Occhi Sul Mondo) “La Repubblica Popolare Cinese è un gigante che brucia primati in ogni campo: il fmi stima che nel 2021, il suo Pil abbia […]

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Democracy versus Sustainability by Boris Frankel

January 26, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Mathew D. Rose Currently the market is flooded with books about climate change. Many more are on their way. The message of most of these is “The situation has gone from grim […]

Economics

The New Economics – A Manifesto by Steve Keen

October 28, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Dirk Bezemer Steve Keen did it again. This Manifesto is a lucid deconstruction of fallacies in neoclassical economics, a reflection on its puzzling persistence, a passionate plea for another kind of economics, […]

Austerity

Shutdown – How Covid Shook the World Economy by Adam Tooze

October 19, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Michael Roberts Adam Tooze has a new book out, Shutdown.  Tooze is the liberal left’s current favourite historian.  His previous book, The Wages of Destruction,  won the Wolfson Prize for History and […]

EU politics

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 […]

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

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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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