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The Case for Degrowth by Giorgos Kallis, Susan Paulson, Giacomo D’Alisa, Federico Demaria

December 3, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Mathew D. Rose “Forlorn Hope” was a British military term from the seventeenth to early nineteenth century for a group of soldiers chosen to take an extremely hazardous role in a military […]

Economics

The Case for a Four Day Week By Anna Coote, Aidan Harper, and Alfie Sterling

November 12, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is a blog by Anna Coote and Aidan Harper describing their book Shorter working time should be at the heart of post-pandemic recovery. That’s the message of The Case for a Four Day Week, […]

Economics

Ban this Book! A review of Daniel Markovits’s “The Meritocracy Trap” by Branko Milanović

October 20, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Daniel Markovits has written in “The Meritocracy Trap” such a frontal assault on the meritocratic system that undergirds and sustains today’s US society that, were the book on a similarly self-sustaining ideological rationale written in […]

Climate Crisis

Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save The World by Jason Hickel

October 2, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Justin H. Vassallo The window for countries to alter earth’s frightening ecological trajectory is rapidly passing. As climate change has morphed into a climate crisis over the past twenty years, the proposed […]

Economics

The Case for a Job Guarantee by Pavlina R. Tcherneva

September 17, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Carlos García Hernández on the occasion of the publication of the Spanish version of the book by his publishing house Lola Books For the first time, all aspects of a job guarantee […]

Climate Crisis

Ecocide – Kill The Corporation Before It Kills Us by David Whyte

September 3, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Mathew D. Rose Not all too long ago it was clear: If we stopped using plastic bags and straws, while sorting our recycling waste assiduously, then all would be well with the […]

Economics

Social Class in Europe: New Inequalities in the Old World by Cédric Hugrée, Etienne Penissat, and Alexis Spire

August 25, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Ben Wray Everyone interested in the politics of Europe should have this on their bookshelf. It is remarkable that it hasn’t been done before now, but Hugrée, Penissat and Spire – three […]

EU politics

First They Took Rome: How the Populist Right Conquered Italy by David Broder

August 17, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Chris Bambery Not so long ago if you heard Italian spoken in the UK you could be reasonably sure that it would be by tourists. In my native Scotland famous Italian Scots […]

Finance

The Gig Economy: A Critical Introduction, by Jamie Woodcock and Mark Graham

July 23, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by Ben Wray What is the gig economy, and what isn’t? How did it come into being? How is it changing work? The Gig Economy Project reviews a new introduction to the topic. […]

Finance

The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins

May 21, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by  Branko Milanović In the speech to the European Youth in Brussels in March 2014, the then-president Obama, speaking of American-led alliances across the world after World War II said the following:  “And […]

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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 […]

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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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