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    Politics at a Distance from the State
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    Politics at a Distance from the State

    For decades, most anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movements identified radical change with capturing state power. The collapse of statist projects from the 1970s fostered both neo-liberalism and a global crisis of left and working-class politics...
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    Global Civil War
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    Global Civil War

    Following up on his earlier best-seller, The Global Police State, this exciting new study by critically-acclaimed scholar and activist William I. Robinson offers a big-picture contribution to understanding contemporary global society in the aftermath of...
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    Milked
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    Milked

    A compelling portrayal by the veteran journalist of the lives of farming communities on either side of the U.S.-Mexico border and the surprising connections between them100% DemocracyWinner of the Studs and Ida Terkel AwardIn the Midwest, Mexican workers...
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    The Pandemic Paradox
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    The Pandemic Paradox

    Why most Americans' finances improved during the worst economic contraction since the Great Depression-and the policy choices that made this possibleIn March 2020, economic and social life across the United States came to an abrupt halt as the country...
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    The Power to Destroy
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    The Power to Destroy

    The postwar United States enjoyed large, widely distributed economic rewards - and most Americans accepted that taxes were a reasonable price to pay for living in a society of shared prosperity. Then in 1978 California enacted Proposition 13, a property...
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    Making Money in the Early Middle Ages
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    Making Money in the Early Middle Ages

    An examination of coined money and its significance to rulers, aristocrats and peasants in early medieval Europe.Between the end of the Roman Empire in the fifth century and the economic transformations of the twelfth, coined money in western Europe was...
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    Atlas of Cities
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    Atlas of Cities

    More than half the world's population lives in cities, and that proportion is expected to rise to three-quarters by 2050. Urbanization is a global phenomenon, but the way cities are developing, the experience of city life, and the prospects for the...
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    Bernanke's Test

    The consensus on Alan Greenspan's performance as Fed chair used to be extremely positive, but more and more it's been called into question. Now, 2008 has seen Ben Bernanke in the eye of a storm that was created largely during Greenspan's tenure. His...
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    The History of Italian Marxism

    This comprehensive historical survey of Italian Marxism explores the growth of different forms of Marxist culture in the period from the Paris Commune through the First World War. In it, Favilli provides indispensible insight on the impact of various...
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    Urban Revolt

    The urban poor and working class now make up the majority of the world's population and this segment is growing dramatically as the global population expands to 10 billion by mid-century. Much of the population growth results from the displacement of...
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    Capital Accumulation and Migration

    Despite the renewed interest in the impact of migration upon economic development in general, remarkably few studies have taken up the ways in which the geographic flows of labor impact capital accumulation itself. Capital Accumulation and Migration...
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    Labor Rgime Change in the Twenty-First Century

    Labor Regime Change in the Twenty-First Century sets as its task to assess the validity, in light of current economic development, of the epistemology structuring different historical interpretations that see unfree labor as incompatible with capitalism...
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    African Struggles Today

    Three leading Africa scholars investigate the social forces driving the democratic transformation of postcolonial states across southern Africa. Extensive research and interviews with civil society organizers in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Zambia, Malawi,...
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    Fintech Explained
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    Fintech Explained

    Fintech Explained provides a rigorous, accessible introduction to the landscape of fintech. Michael R. King explains the customer focus, innovation strategy, business model, and valuation of leading fintechs in cryptocurrencies and decentralized finance...
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    Shadow Courts

    "Haley Sweetland Edwards explains the history of global shadow courts and how these courts have spun out of control, threatening the interests of citizens everywhere including the United States. Her fantastic book is exactly what long-form journalism is...
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  • America Besieged
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    America Besieged

    America Besieged deals with the underlying forces within U.S. society that deeply affect our lives. Showing how we are being misled and harmed by those who profess to have our interests at heart, Michael Parenti writes: "We are indeed a nation besieged,...
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    Inflation Targeting
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    Inflation Targeting

    How should governments and central banks use monetary policy to create a healthy economy? Traditionally, policymakers have used such strategies as controlling the growth of the money supply or pegging the exchange rate to a stable currency. In recent...
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    Blue Ocean Strategy + Beyond Disruption Collection (2 Books)
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    Blue Ocean Strategy + Beyond Disruption Collection (2 Books)

    The two landmark books, Blue Ocean Strategy and Beyond Disruption, that together challenge everything you thought you knew about winning the future.These two iconic books, Blue Ocean Strategy and Beyond Disruption, together changed how the world thinks...
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    Wall Street, the Nazis, and the Crimes of the Deep State
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    Wall Street, the Nazis, and the Crimes of the Deep State

    The transnationally coordinated response to "Covid-19" witnessed numerous developments reminiscent of the prewar years of the Third Reich, including the suspension of constitutional rights and freedoms, the rollout of draconian legislation, an attempted...
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    Shocks, Crises, and False Alarms
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    Shocks, Crises, and False Alarms

    An essential new guide to navigating macroeconomic risk.The shocks and crises of recent years pandemic, recession, inflation, war have forced executives and investors to recognise that the macroeconomy is now a risk to be actively managed. Yet unreliable...
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  • On Work
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    On Work

    A rousing commentary on the history of labor and the future of work. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, drawn from contemporary articles or classic storytelling from the magazine's 165-year archive.On Work gathers a...
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    Money Capital
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    Money Capital

    A novel perspective on monetary and fiscal policy that views money as the equity capital of a nationA conventional economic theory, monetarism, holds that inflation is a monetary phenomenon driven by changes in the supply of money. Yet recent experience...
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    ESG
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    ESG

    Move past the ESG culture wars and make better choices for your business.Embracing ESG environmental, social, and governance goals isn't just the right thing to do. It's good business. Companies that don't address their...
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    Cheaper, Faster, Better
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    Cheaper, Faster, Better

    Climate investor and activist Tom Steyer shows us how we can win the war on climate.The climate is changing more rapidly than scientists predicted even a few years ago, with extreme weather already touching our everyday lives. At the same time, the clean...
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    Lifeworlds in Crisis
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    Lifeworlds in Crisis

    The continuing Darfur War has caused mass displacement since 2003, with hundreds of thousands driven from their homes and many forced into refugee camps in western Sudan and neighbouring Chad. Building on twenty years of research in the region, Andrea...
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    Slow Burn
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    Slow Burn

    How the subtle but significant consequences of a hotter planet have already begun - from lower test scores to higher crime rates - and how we might tackle them today.It's hard not to feel anxious about the problem of climate change, especially if we...
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    Poverty for Profit
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    Poverty for Profit

    A Ms. Magazine Most Anticipated Book A devastating investigation into the "corporate poverty complex"-the myriad businesses that profit from the poor Poverty is big business in America. The federal government spends about $900 billion a year on programs...
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    You Can't Market Manure at Lunchtime
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    You Can't Market Manure at Lunchtime

    Five invaluable lessons for doing sustainability right, doing it profitably, and getting the credit you deserve.Did the title of this book get your attention? Good. Because as silly as it is, the idea behind it is serious, earnest, and authentic: you...
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    Promised Land
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    Promised Land

    A personal, journalistic ethnography of the modern American working class, based on the travels and interactions of the author through the American heartland. "Second Classis the most important book you will read all year. A political realignment is...
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    We Are the Middle of Forever
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    We Are the Middle of Forever

    With a new afterword by the authorsA powerful, intimate collection of conversations with Indigenous Americans on the climate crisis and the Earth's futureAlthough for a great many people, the human impact on the Earth-countless species becoming extinct,...
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    The Problems in the Art World
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    The Problems in the Art World

    In this succinct volume, author Brainard Carey, an artist with prestigious exhibitions like the Whitney Biennial under his belt, distills two decades of personal experience and over 1,900 interviews with artists and curators for Yale University Radio...
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    Counterrevolution
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    Counterrevolution

    A thorough investigation of the current combination of austerity and extravagance that characterizes government spending and central bank monetary policy.At the close of the 1970s, government treasuries and central banks took a vow of perpetual...
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    How We Gather Matters
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    How We Gather Matters

    Grow your audience, shrink your footprint, change the world Straight-talk on what makes a purposeful, sustainable event, including honest, practical insights into case studies of hits, misses, and lessons learned. -SHAWNA MCKINLEY, Principal, Clear...
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    Rosa Luxemburg: The Incendiary Spark
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    Rosa Luxemburg: The Incendiary Spark

    Renowned Marxist scholar Michael Lwy offers an indispensable assessment of an enduringly fascinating revolutionary.Vibrant, insightful, and wide-ranging, Lwy's essays illuminate the heroic, tough-minded idealist and martyr, Rosa Luxemburg. Active in the...
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    Pax Economica
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    Pax Economica

    Today, free trade is often associated with right-wing free marketeers. In Pax Economica, historian Marc-William Palen shows that free trade and globalisation in fact have roots in nineteenth-century left-wing politics. In this counterhistory of an idea,...
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    The Spectre of Capital
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    The Spectre of Capital

    <p>What is money? What is capital? Christopher J. Arthur brilliantly tackles these fundamental questions at a deep philosophical level in <em>The Spectre of Capital</em>. He argues that the modern world is ruled...
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    Trump's War on Capitalism
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    Trump's War on Capitalism

    Donald Trump had all the right enemieswhile in office-but that was about all he had right.And with the election of 2024 fast approaching, the essence of the moment is this: Lock him out of both the nomination and the Oval Office.David Stockman, theNew...
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    Provenance and Possession
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    Provenance and Possession

    A thought-provoking study of how knowledge of provenance was not transferred with enslaved people and goods from the Portuguese trading empire to Renaissance ItalyIn the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Renaissance Italy received a bounty of "goods"...
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    Power Lines
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    Power Lines

    The essential anthology on the most effective ways to organize a labor movement for environmental justice, from leading organizers in the field The corporate elite have long pitted climate and labor movements against each other through a "jobs vs. the...
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    Markets and power in digital capitalism
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    Markets and power in digital capitalism

    Markets and power in digital capitalism delves into the complex world of modern capitalism, where technology giants reign supreme. From Google and Apple to Amazon and Tencent, these internet behemoths have reshaped the economic landscape, transforming...
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    Power and Possession in the Russian Revolution
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    Power and Possession in the Russian Revolution

    A history that reframes the Bolsheviks' unprecedented attempts to abolish private property after the revolutions of 1917 The revolutions of 1917 swept away not only Russia's governing authority but also the property order on which it stood. The upheaval...
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    Higher Ground
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    Higher Ground

    An indispensable guide to help companies navigate the new era of ethical challenges and risks in a volatile global landscape.Today's headlines teem with employee unrest over racial injustice, communities infuriated by corporate environmental...
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    Trade Makes States
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    Trade Makes States

    Trade Makes States highlights how trade and the circulation of goods are central to Somali societies, economies and politics. Drawing on multi-site research from across East Africa's Somali-inhabited economic space - which includes areas of...
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    As Gods Among Men
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    As Gods Among Men

    How the rich and the super-rich throughout Western history accumulated their wealth, behaved (or misbehaved) and helped (or didn't help) their communities in times of crisis.The rich have always fascinated, sometimes in problematic ways. Medieval...
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    Inside the Political Mind
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    Inside the Political Mind

    Why have efforts to strengthen quality of governance so often failed in some of the world's most troubled states? Because they almost always ignore the human side of politics.Drawing on his experience of working with hundreds of politicians in more than...
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