The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy Of American Empire
10 best books like The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy Of American Empire (Leo Panitch): Politics, The Line of Beauty, October: The Story of the Russian Revolution, The Medium is the Massage, The Limits to Capital, Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market, German Ideology, One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy, The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer, Wall Street: How It Works and for Whom
| Author | Aristotle |
| ISBN | 0486414248 |
What is the relationship of the individual to the state? What is the ideal state, and how can it bring about the most desirable life for its citizens? What sort of education should it provide? What is the purpose of amassing wealth? These are some of the questions Aristotle attempts to answer in one of the...
| Author | Alan Hollinghurst |
| ISBN | 0739464469 |
In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the Feddens: conservative Member of Parliament Gerald, his wealthy wife Rachel, and their two children, Toby-whom Nick had idolized at Oxford-and Catherine, highly critical of her family's assumptions...
October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
| Author | China Miéville |
| ISBN | 1784782777 |
In February 1917, in the midst of bloody war, Russia was still an autocratic monarchy: nine months later, it became the first socialist state in world history. How did this unimaginable transformation take place? How was a ravaged and backward country, swept up in a desperately unpopular war, rocked...
The Medium is the Massage
| Author | Marshall McLuhan |
| ISBN | 1584230703 |
The Medium is the Massage is Marshall McLuhan's most condensed, and perhaps most effective, presentation of his ideas. Using a layout style that was later copied by Wired, McLuhan and coauthor/designer Quentin Fiore combine word and image to illustrate and enact the ideas that were first put forward...
| Author | David Harvey |
| ISBN | 1844670953 |
The Limits to Capital provides one of the best theoretical guides to the history and geography of capitalist development. In this new edition, Harvey updates his classic text with a substantial discussion of the turmoil in world markets today.
In his analyses of ‘fictitious capital’...
Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
| Author | Eric Schlosser |
| ISBN | 0618446702 |
America's black market is much larger than we realize, and it affects us all deeply, whether or not we smoke pot, rent a risqué video, or pay our kid's nannies in cash. In Reefer Madness the best-selling author of Fast Food Nation turns his exacting eye on the underbelly of the American marketplace and...
| Author | Karl Marx |
| ISBN | 0717803015 |
2011 Reprint of 1939 Edition. Parts I & III of "The German Ideology". Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Originally published by the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow in 1939. "The German Ideology" was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels...
| Author | Thomas Frank |
| ISBN | 0385495048 |
In a book that has been raising hackles far and wide, the social critic Thomas Frank skewers one of the most sacred cows of the go-go '90s: the idea that the new free-market economy is good for everyone.
Frank's target is "market populism"--the widely held belief that markets are a more democratic...
| Author | Dean Baker |
| ISBN | 1411693957 |
In his new book, economist Dean Baker debunks the myth that conservatives favor the market over government intervention. In fact, conservatives rely on a range of "nanny state" policies that ensure the rich get richer while leaving most Americans worse off. It's time for the rules to change. Sound...
| Author | Doug Henwood |
| ISBN | 0860916707 |
With compelling clarity, Henwood dissects the world's greatest financial center, laying open the Intricacies of how, and for whom, the market works. The Wall Street which emerges is not a pretty sight. Hidden from public view, the markets are poorly regulated, badly managed, chronically myopic...
