Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown

5 best books like Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown (Philip Mirowski): Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, Holy the Firm, The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism, The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy Of American Empire, Great Chinese Revolution 1800-1985

Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

Author	bell hooks
ISBN	0896082210

A sweeping examination of the core issues of sexual politics, bell hooks' new book Feminist Theory: from margin to center argues that the contemporary feminist movement must establish a new direction for the 1980s. Continuing the debates surrounding her controversial first book, Ain't I A Woman,...

Holy the Firm

Author	Annie Dillard
ISBN	0060915439

In 1975 Annie Dillard took up residence on an island in Puget Sound in a wooded room furnished with "one enormous window, one cat, one spider and one person." For the next two years she asked herself questions about time, reality, sacrifice death, and the will of God. In Holy the Firm she writes about a moth...

The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western Masochism

Author	Pascal Bruckner
ISBN	0691143765

Fascism, communism, genocide, slavery, racism, imperialism--the West has no shortage of reasons for guilt. And, indeed, since the Holocaust and the end of World War II, Europeans in particular have been consumed by remorse. But Pascal Bruckner argues that guilt has now gone too far. It has become...

The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy Of American Empire

Author	Leo Panitch
ISBN	1844677427

The all-encompassing embrace of world capitalism at the beginning of the twenty-first century was generally attributed to the superiority of competitive markets. Globalization had appeared to be the natural outcome of this unstoppable process. But today, with global markets roiling and increasingly...

Great Chinese Revolution 1800-1985

Author

John King Fairbank

This book presents a masterful, introductory overview (or a neat refresher) of modern Chinese political history. A good primer or quick reference work for anyone studying the history and political transmutations of modern China at degree level, written by a very distinguished historian of the subject...