Current Social Movements
Books on Current Political and Economic Movements and Protests from Pluto Press and Zed Books.
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In the space of a year, Laurie Penny has become one of the most prominent voices of the new left. This book brings together her diverse writings, showing what... |
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Zed Books
The Global MinotaurAmerica, The True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World EconomyIn this remarkable and provocative book, Yanis Varoufakis explodes the myth that financialization, ineffectual regulation of banks, greed, and globalization... |
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Debunking Economics - Revised and Expanded Edition, now including a downloadable supplement for courses, exposes what many non-economists may have suspected... |
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Zed Books
Confronting ManagerialismHow the Business Elite and Their Schools Threw Our Lives Out of BalanceConfronting Managerialism offers a scathing critique of the crippling influence of neoclassical economics and modern finance on business school teaching and... |
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The dominant schools of neoclassical and neoliberal economics tell us that material scarcity is an inevitable product of an insatiable human nature. Against... |
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In the light of the deepening crisis of capitalism and continued non-Western capitalist accumulation, Henry Heller re-examines the debates surrounding the... |
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The recent crisis, created by finance capitalism, has brought us to the economic abyss. The excessive freedom of international markets has rapidly transformed... |
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Throughout the world, there has been a growing wave of interest in global corporate power and the rise of a transnational capitalist class, triggered by... |
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Epic Recession explains the origins and future direction of the current economic crisis, and the relationships between the banking system's breakdown and the... |
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@ is For Activism examines the transformation of politics through digital media, including digital television, online social networking and mobile computing.... |
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Pluto Press
Crack CapitalismCrack Capitalism, argues that radical change can only come about through the creation, expansion and multiplication of weak points, or "cracks" in the... |
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As the recent financial crisis has revealed, the state is central to the stability of the money system, while the chaotic privately-owned banks reap the... |
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Pluto Press
Inequality and the Global Economic CrisisInequality has always been with us. With the growth of capitalism across the globe, inequalities of income, wealth and power became increasingly extreme.... |
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