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Capital in the 21st Century by Thomas Piketty

October 22, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Michael Roberts Back in 2014, French economist Thomas Piketty published a blockbuster book, Capital in the 21st century.  Repeating the name of Marx’s Capital, the implication of the title was that it […]

Economics

Capitalism, Alone by Branko Milanović

September 23, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Mathew D. Rose The highest praise that I have usually lavished on a book- and this book certainly fulfils this – is: “It has changed my way of thinking about a topic”. […]

Climate Crisis

Change! Why We Need a Radical Turnaround by Graeme Maxton

August 7, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by Hauke Benner Over 180 pages, Graeme Maxton criticises governments, corporations and entrepreneurs, especially in rich countries, for complete failure in the face of the threat of climate collapse and calls for “a […]

Economics

The Case for People’s Quantitative Easing by Frances Coppola

July 1, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by Mathew D. Rose Polity describes its series “The Case for” as “making the case for the radical, positive policies that we need to tackle these big problems – a dysfunctional economy, wealth […]

Austerity

Globalists by Quinn Slobodian

May 24, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review Mathew D. Rose About a year ago a few academics declared that one could not discuss neo-liberalism because it could not be defined. This seemed rather odd, seeing that the most important literature […]

Economics

Prosperity: better business makes the greater good, by Colin Mayer

May 6, 2019 David Shirreff 0

Book review by David Shirreff Capitalism needs a re-think – large swathes of economists and policy-makers would agree with that. But how do you change the nature of a company – that building-block of capitalism […]

Media

Nervous States: How feeling took over the world by William Davies

March 10, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by David Shirreff Perhaps this book should be called The Theory of Everything, though that title has already been used for a movie about Stephen Hawking, the theoretical physicist and expert on black […]

Economics

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

February 24, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by John Tomaney In The New Enclosure: The Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain, Brett Christophers claims that Britain’s biggest and most consequential privatisation is its least known and understood. The Margaret […]

Austerity

The European Illusion – Why We Need New Strategies Towards the EU and Beyond by Attac Austria

January 7, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by Mathew D. Rose It takes courage these days to write a book critical of the EU, especially from a leftist perspective: to do so in Austria even more so. Austria, like Germany, […]

Austerity

A Happy Future is a Thing of the Past by Pavlos Roufos

December 2, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by Mathew D. Rose Together with the European Union refugee policy, the EU’s handling of the Greek crisis is the other great disgrace that has scarred its history – our history – in […]

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

March 4, 2026 0

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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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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