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Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste
How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown
Written by Philip Mirowski
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $29.95
At the onset of the Great Recession, as house prices sank and joblessness soared, many commentators concluded that the economic convictions behind the disaster would now be consigned to history. And yet, in the harsh light of a new day, we’ve awoken to a second nightmare more ghastly than the first... Read more >
How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown
Written by Philip Mirowski
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: July 9, 2013
Price: $29.95
At the onset of the Great Recession, as house prices sank and joblessness soared, many commentators concluded that the economic convictions behind the disaster would now be consigned to history. And yet, in the harsh light of a new day, we’ve awoken to a second nightmare more ghastly than the first... Read more >
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Billionaires' Ball
Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality
Written by Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $18.00
Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality
Written by Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $18.00
A society top-heavy with billionaires may seem like a paradise of upward mobility, but it actually more closely resembles a boneyard of broken dreams for all but a lucky few. Between 1980 and 2008, the incomes of the bottom 90 percent of Americans grew by a meager 1 percent compared to...
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The Ascent of Humanity
Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
Written by Charles Eisenstein
Format: Hardcover, 576 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $29.95
Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self. In this limited hardcover edition of Eisenstein's landmark book, he argues that our disconnection from one another and the natural world has mislaid the foundations of science... Read more >
Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
Written by Charles Eisenstein
Format: Hardcover, 576 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $29.95
Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self. In this limited hardcover edition of Eisenstein's landmark book, he argues that our disconnection from one another and the natural world has mislaid the foundations of science... Read more >
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The Ascent of Humanity
Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
Written by Charles Eisenstein
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $24.95
Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self. In this landmark book, Eisenstein explains how a disconnection from the natural world and one another is built into the foundations of civilization: into science, religion, money... Read more >
Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
Written by Charles Eisenstein
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $24.95
Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self. In this landmark book, Eisenstein explains how a disconnection from the natural world and one another is built into the foundations of civilization: into science, religion, money... Read more >
The Ascent of Humanity
Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
Written by Charles Eisenstein
Format: eBook, 576 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $19.95
Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self. In this limited hardcover edition of Eisenstein's landmark book, he argues that our disconnection from one another and the natural world has mislaid the foundations of science... Read more >
Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
Written by Charles Eisenstein
Format: eBook, 576 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $19.95
Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separate self. In this limited hardcover edition of Eisenstein's landmark book, he argues that our disconnection from one another and the natural world has mislaid the foundations of science... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Meme Wars
The Creative Destruction of Neoclassical Economics
Written by Kalle Lasn
Edited by Adbusters
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $100.00
"Engrossing, exciting [...] This book compels us to rethink our approaches to economics ..." —Literary Review of Canada
"Thought-provoking and creative [...]" —Julie Nelson, author of Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics
From the editor and magazine that started and named the Occupy Wall Street movement, Meme Wars: The Creative Destruction of Neoclassical Economics is an articulation of... Read more >
The Creative Destruction of Neoclassical Economics
Written by Kalle Lasn
Edited by Adbusters
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $100.00
"Engrossing, exciting [...] This book compels us to rethink our approaches to economics ..." —Literary Review of Canada
"Thought-provoking and creative [...]" —Julie Nelson, author of Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics
From the editor and magazine that started and named the Occupy Wall Street movement, Meme Wars: The Creative Destruction of Neoclassical Economics is an articulation of... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Maonomics
Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We Do
Written by Loretta Napoleoni
Translated by Stephen Twilley
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: December 4, 2012
Price: $18.95
With the end of the Cold War, it was believed that Western capitalism had finally triumphed over Communism. In Maonomics: Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists than We Do, Napoleoni argues just the opposite: we are now witnessing capitalism's decline and the victory of "communism with a profit motive." Maonomics charts the prodigious ascent... Read more >
Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We Do
Written by Loretta Napoleoni
Translated by Stephen Twilley
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: December 4, 2012
Price: $18.95
With the end of the Cold War, it was believed that Western capitalism had finally triumphed over Communism. In Maonomics: Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists than We Do, Napoleoni argues just the opposite: we are now witnessing capitalism's decline and the victory of "communism with a profit motive." Maonomics charts the prodigious ascent... Read more >
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The Rich Don't Always Win
The Forgotten Triumph over Plutocracy that Created the American Middle Class, 1900-1970
Written by Sam Pizzigati
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: November 27, 2012
Price: $18.95
The Occupy Wall Street protests have captured America's political imagination. Polls show that two-thirds of the nation now believe that America's enormous wealth ought to be "distributed more evenly." However, almost as many Americans--well over half--feel the protests will ultimately have "little impact" on inequality in America. What explains this disconnect? Most Americans have... Read more >
The Forgotten Triumph over Plutocracy that Created the American Middle Class, 1900-1970
Written by Sam Pizzigati
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: November 27, 2012
Price: $18.95
The Occupy Wall Street protests have captured America's political imagination. Polls show that two-thirds of the nation now believe that America's enormous wealth ought to be "distributed more evenly." However, almost as many Americans--well over half--feel the protests will ultimately have "little impact" on inequality in America. What explains this disconnect? Most Americans have... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
The Rich Don't Always Win
The Forgotten Triumph over Plutocracy that Created the American Middle Class, 1900-1970
Written by Sam Pizzigati
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: November 27, 2012
Price: $18.95
The Occupy Wall Street protests have captured America's political imagination. Polls show that two-thirds of the nation now believe that America's enormous wealth ought to be "distributed more evenly." However, almost as many Americans--well over half--feel the protests will ultimately have "little impact" on inequality in America. What explains this disconnect? Most Americans have... Read more >
The Forgotten Triumph over Plutocracy that Created the American Middle Class, 1900-1970
Written by Sam Pizzigati
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: November 27, 2012
Price: $18.95
The Occupy Wall Street protests have captured America's political imagination. Polls show that two-thirds of the nation now believe that America's enormous wealth ought to be "distributed more evenly." However, almost as many Americans--well over half--feel the protests will ultimately have "little impact" on inequality in America. What explains this disconnect? Most Americans have... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Meme Wars
The Creative Destruction of Neoclassical Economics
Edited by Kalle Lasn and Adbusters
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $29.95
"Engrossing, exciting [...] This book compels us to rethink our approaches to economics ..."
—Literary Review of Canada
"Thought-provoking and creative" — Julie Nelson, author of Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics
"Meme Wars is a Molotov cocktail tossed into the boardroom. "— Calgary Herald
From the editor and magazine that started and named the Occupy... Read more >
The Creative Destruction of Neoclassical Economics
Edited by Kalle Lasn and Adbusters
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $29.95
"Engrossing, exciting [...] This book compels us to rethink our approaches to economics ..."
—Literary Review of Canada
"Thought-provoking and creative" — Julie Nelson, author of Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics
"Meme Wars is a Molotov cocktail tossed into the boardroom. "— Calgary Herald
From the editor and magazine that started and named the Occupy... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Stealth of Nations
The Global Rise of the Informal Economy
Written by Robert Neuwirth
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $16.00
The Global Rise of the Informal Economy
Written by Robert Neuwirth
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $16.00
An eye-opening account of the informal economy around the globe, Stealth of Nations traces the history and reach of unregulated markets, and explains the unwritten rules that govern them.
Journalist Robert Neuwirth joins globe-trotting Nigerians who sell Chinese cell phones and laid-off San Franciscans who use Twitter to market street food...
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"They're Bankrupting Us!"
And 20 Other Myths about Unions
Written by Bill Fletcher Jr.
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: August 28, 2012
Price: $15.00
From Wisconsin to Washington, DC, the claims are made: unions are responsible for budget deficits, and their members are overpaid and enjoy cushy benefits. The only way to save the American economy, pundits claim, is to weaken the labor movement, strip workers of collective bargaining rights, and champion private industry. In "They're... Read more >
And 20 Other Myths about Unions
Written by Bill Fletcher Jr.
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: August 28, 2012
Price: $15.00
From Wisconsin to Washington, DC, the claims are made: unions are responsible for budget deficits, and their members are overpaid and enjoy cushy benefits. The only way to save the American economy, pundits claim, is to weaken the labor movement, strip workers of collective bargaining rights, and champion private industry. In "They're... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
"They're Bankrupting Us!"
And 20 Other Myths about Unions
Written by Bill Fletcher Jr.
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 28, 2012
Price: $15.00
From Wisconsin to Washington, DC, the claims are made: unions are responsible for budget deficits, and their members are overpaid and enjoy cushy benefits. The only way to save the American economy, pundits claim, is to weaken the labor movement, strip workers of collective bargaining rights, and champion private industry. In... Read more >
And 20 Other Myths about Unions
Written by Bill Fletcher Jr.
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 28, 2012
Price: $15.00
From Wisconsin to Washington, DC, the claims are made: unions are responsible for budget deficits, and their members are overpaid and enjoy cushy benefits. The only way to save the American economy, pundits claim, is to weaken the labor movement, strip workers of collective bargaining rights, and champion private industry. In... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Pinched
How the Great Recession Has Narrowed Our Futures and What We Can Do About It
Written by Don Peck
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $14.00
The Great Recession is not done with us yet. While the most acute part of the economic crisis is past, the recession's most significant impact on American life still lies in the future. The personal, social, and cultural changes that result from severe economic shocks build and manifest themselves only slowly... Read more >
How the Great Recession Has Narrowed Our Futures and What We Can Do About It
Written by Don Peck
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: August 7, 2012
Price: $14.00
The Great Recession is not done with us yet. While the most acute part of the economic crisis is past, the recession's most significant impact on American life still lies in the future. The personal, social, and cultural changes that result from severe economic shocks build and manifest themselves only slowly... Read more >
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Stuffed and Starved
The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
Written by Raj Patel
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $19.95
Revised and Expanded Edition
"For anyone attempting to make sense of the world food crisis, or understand the links between U.S. farm policy and the ability of the world's poor to feed themselves, Stuffed and Starved is indispensable."
—Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma
It’s a perverse fact of modern life: There are more starving... Read more >
The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
Written by Raj Patel
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $19.95
Revised and Expanded Edition
"For anyone attempting to make sense of the world food crisis, or understand the links between U.S. farm policy and the ability of the world's poor to feed themselves, Stuffed and Starved is indispensable."
—Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma
It’s a perverse fact of modern life: There are more starving... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Stuffed and Starved
The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
Written by Raj Patel
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $19.95
Completely updated and revised edition of one of the most widely-praised food books of recent years.
It’s a perverse fact of modern life: There are more starving people in the world than ever before, while there are also more people who are overweight.
To find out how we got to... Read more >
The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
Written by Raj Patel
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $19.95
Completely updated and revised edition of one of the most widely-praised food books of recent years.
It’s a perverse fact of modern life: There are more starving people in the world than ever before, while there are also more people who are overweight.
To find out how we got to... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Path to Hope
Written by Stephane Hessel and Edgar Morin
Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2012
Price: $8.00
Written by Stephane Hessel and Edgar Morin
Format: Hardcover, 112 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2012
Price: $8.00
A short, incisive political tract that criticizes the culture of finance capitalism and calls for a return to the humanist values of the enlightenment: equality, liberty, freedom as defined in the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a return to community, mutual respect, freedom from poverty, and an end to theocracy...
Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
The Path to Hope
Written by Stephane Hessel and Edgar Morin
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 24, 2012
Price: $5.99
A short, incisive political tract that criticizes the culture of finance capitalism and calls for a return to the humanist values of the enlightenment: equality, liberty, freedom as defined in the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a return to community, mutual respect, freedom from poverty, and an end to theocracy... Read more >
Written by Stephane Hessel and Edgar Morin
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 24, 2012
Price: $5.99
A short, incisive political tract that criticizes the culture of finance capitalism and calls for a return to the humanist values of the enlightenment: equality, liberty, freedom as defined in the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a return to community, mutual respect, freedom from poverty, and an end to theocracy... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Billionaires' Ball
Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality
Written by Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks
Format: Hardcover, 280 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $26.95
The concentration of wealth today in such a small number of hands inevitably created a dynamic that led to freewheeling financial speculation—a dynamic that produced similarly disastrous results in the last great age of inequality, in the 1920s. Such concentrated economic power reverberates throughout society, threatening the quality of life and... Read more >
Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality
Written by Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks
Format: Hardcover, 280 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $26.95
The concentration of wealth today in such a small number of hands inevitably created a dynamic that led to freewheeling financial speculation—a dynamic that produced similarly disastrous results in the last great age of inequality, in the 1920s. Such concentrated economic power reverberates throughout society, threatening the quality of life and... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Billionaires' Ball
Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality
Written by Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $26.95
The concentration of wealth today in such a small number of hands inevitably created a dynamic that led to freewheeling financial speculation—a dynamic that produced similarly disastrous results in the last great age of inequality, in the 1920s. Such concentrated economic power reverberates throughout society, threatening the quality of life and... Read more >
Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality
Written by Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 27, 2012
Price: $26.95
The concentration of wealth today in such a small number of hands inevitably created a dynamic that led to freewheeling financial speculation—a dynamic that produced similarly disastrous results in the last great age of inequality, in the 1920s. Such concentrated economic power reverberates throughout society, threatening the quality of life and... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Stealth of Nations
The Global Rise of the Informal Economy
Written by Robert Neuwirth
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $25.95
The Global Rise of the Informal Economy
Written by Robert Neuwirth
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $25.95
• Thousands of Africans head to China each year to buy cell phones, auto parts, and other products that they will import to their home countries through a clandestine global back channel.
• Hundreds of Paraguayan merchants smuggle computers, electronics, and clothing across the border to Brazil.
• Scores of laid-off San...
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Stealth of Nations
The Global Rise of the Informal Economy
Written by Robert Neuwirth
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $13.99
The Global Rise of the Informal Economy
Written by Robert Neuwirth
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $13.99
• Thousands of Africans head to China each year to buy cell phones, auto parts, and other products that they will import to their home countries through a clandestine global back channel.
• Hundreds of Paraguayan merchants smuggle computers, electronics, and clothing across the border to Brazil.
• Scores of laid-off San...
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
Maonomics
Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We Do
Written by Loretta Napoleoni
Translated by Stephen Twilley
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Price: $26.95
The end of the cold war was thought to signal the triumph of Western capitalism over Communism. In Maonomics: Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists than We Do, Napoleoni argues just the opposite: what we are witnessing instead is the beginning of the collapse of capitalism and the victory of "communism... Read more >
Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We Do
Written by Loretta Napoleoni
Translated by Stephen Twilley
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Price: $26.95
The end of the cold war was thought to signal the triumph of Western capitalism over Communism. In Maonomics: Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists than We Do, Napoleoni argues just the opposite: what we are witnessing instead is the beginning of the collapse of capitalism and the victory of "communism... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Maonomics
Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We Do
Written by Loretta Napoleoni
Translated by Stephen Twilley
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $26.95
The end of the cold war was thought to signal the triumph of Western capitalism over Communism. In Maonomics: Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists than We Do, Napoleoni argues just the opposite: what we are witnessing instead is the beginning of the collapse of capitalism and the victory of "communism... Read more >
Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We Do
Written by Loretta Napoleoni
Translated by Stephen Twilley
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: October 4, 2011
Price: $26.95
The end of the cold war was thought to signal the triumph of Western capitalism over Communism. In Maonomics: Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists than We Do, Napoleoni argues just the opposite: what we are witnessing instead is the beginning of the collapse of capitalism and the victory of "communism... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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What Comes After Money?
Essays from Reality Sandwich on Transforming Currency and Community
Edited by Daniel Pinchbeck and Ken Jordan
Format: Trade Paperback, 280 pages
On Sale: September 27, 2011
Price: $18.95
Most people believe that money is organic and inevitable; we forget that money is just a tool created to perform certain functions. But just as computer programmers drop out-of date tools and pick up better ones as soon as they become available, we might switch from bank-financed currency to a more equitable... Read more >
Essays from Reality Sandwich on Transforming Currency and Community
Edited by Daniel Pinchbeck and Ken Jordan
Format: Trade Paperback, 280 pages
On Sale: September 27, 2011
Price: $18.95
Most people believe that money is organic and inevitable; we forget that money is just a tool created to perform certain functions. But just as computer programmers drop out-of date tools and pick up better ones as soon as they become available, we might switch from bank-financed currency to a more equitable... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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