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The many in one: A review by Branko Milanović of Amartya Sen’s “Home in the world: A memoir”

May 20, 2022 MDRose 0

Cross-posted from Branko’s blog Global Inequality No contemporary famous economist has as broad interests and knowledge, nor as diverse life experience as Amartya Sen. It is not surprising that many have been looking forward to […]

Economics

Fractured China: How State Transformation is Shaping China’s Rise by Lee Jones and Shahar Hameiri 

May 3, 2022 MDRose 0

Book Review by  Chenchao Lian Originally published by E-International Relations How is Chinese foreign policy made? How is it implemented? These are questions that have long occupied China specialists. With the growth of Chinese power […]

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In the Line of Fire by Antony Thomas

April 4, 2022 David 0

Book Review by David Shirreff This tale, about the making of seminal documentaries over more than 50 years, underlines the sad truth that the world has not become a better place. But nor has it […]

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Cina L’Irresistibile Ascesa di Alberto Bradanini 

March 9, 2022 MDRose 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 MDRose 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 MDRose 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 MDRose 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 MDRose 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 MDRose 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 MDRose 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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Austerity

Reindustrialise Britain – A Strategy for Wealth Creation by Costas Lapavitsas, Larry Elliot, Doug Nicholls

September 4, 2026 0

Book Review by Mathew D. Rose With the exception of the Epstein Class and the Professional and Managerial Caste in Britain there is now a broad consensus that neo-liberalism has failed the nation. It has […]

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Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations by Christian Christiansen

June 11, 2026 0

Reviewed by Branko Milanović The just published book by Christian Christiansen Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations provides an intellectual review of the history of […]

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