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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 […]

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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 […]

Corruption

A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence and Social Division in Modern Spain 1874-2018 by Paul Preston

March 7, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Chris Bambery “Spain is Different” – that was the slogan devised in the 1960’s to sell the country as a popular tourism destination. And Spain is different as this wonderfully rich book […]

EU politics

MARKET-STATE-PRISON under Spanish Neoliberalism by Dani Jiménez

February 12, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Taken from the forward by Steve Tombs and David Whyte In September 2019, the Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Barcelona, Iñaki Rivera, a long-term colleague of Dani Jiménez’s and a friend of […]

Climate Crisis

Limits: Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care by Giorgos Kallis

January 27, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Andrew J. Sutter From one point of view, this book is part of the literature about degrowth, a field of study and advocacy that critiques economic growth and, ideally, proposes policies that could […]

Economics

The New Enclosure: The Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain by Brett Christophers

December 17, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Michael Roberts I should have reviewed Brett Christophers’ book, The New Enclosure, when it came out this time last year.  But better late than never. In 2017, Christophers, professor in Human Geography […]

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The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform by Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian

March 27, 2026 0

Book Review by Branko Milanović Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian’s The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform is a book about how China transformed itself between the Great Leap Forward and the early […]

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Germany’s Jewish Problem: Genocides Past and Present by Wieland Hoban

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Reviewed by Raymond Deane On 30 January, Uwe Becker – the so-called commissioner for Jewish life and the fight against anti-Semitism in the German state of Hesse – demanded that the organization Jewish Voice for […]

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