Libros de: Verso Books
Mostrando 148 libros encontrados. (8 páginas).
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Out of the Wreckage "A New Politics in an Age of Crisis"
Monbiot, George
Verso Books (2017)
- EAN: 9781786637451
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.17,95 €
Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias
A thrilling new route to a better society
A toxic ideology of extreme competition and individualism has come to dominate our world. It misrepresents human nature, destroying hope and common purpose. Only ... -
How Will Capitalism End? "Essays on a Failing System "
Streeck, Wolfgang
Verso Books (2017)
- EAN: 9781786632982
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.14,95 €
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The provocative political thinker asks if it will be with a bang or a whimper
After years of ill health, capitalism is now in a critical condition. Growth has given way to stagnation; inequality ... -
Class, Race, and Marxism
Roediger, David
Verso Books (2017)
- EAN: 9781786631237
- Páginas: 208
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.27,95 €
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Seen as a key figure in the critical study of whiteness, US historian David Roediger has sometimes received criticism, and praise, alleging that he left Marxism behind in order to work on questions of identity. ...
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In the Long Run We Are All Dead "Keynesianism, Political Economy, and Revolution"
Mann, Geoff
Verso Books (2017)
- EAN: 9781784785994
- Páginas: 432
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.27,95 €
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In the ruins of the 2007-2008 financial crisis, self-proclaimed progressives the world over clamoured to resurrect the economic theory of John Maynard Keynes. The crisis seemed to expose the disaster of small-state, free-market liberalization and ...
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The Origin of Capitalism "A Longer View"
Meiksins Wood, Ellen
Verso Books (2017)
- EAN: 9781786630681
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.13,95 €
Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias
In The Origin of Capitalism, a now-classic work of history, Ellen Meiksins Wood offers readers a clear and accessible introduction to the theories and debates concerning the birth of capitalism, imperialism, and the modern nation ...
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The Production of Money "How to Break the Power of Bankers"
Pettifor, Ann
Verso Books (2016)
- EAN: 9781786631343
- Páginas: 192
- Fecha de edición: 2016
pvp.12,00 €
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In this accessible, brilliantly argued book, leading political economist Ann Pettifor explains in straightforward terms historys most misunderstood invention: the money system. Pettifor argues that democracies can, and indeed must, reclaim control over money production ...
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The ABCs of Socialism
Sunkara, Bhaskar
Verso Books (2016)
- EAN: 9781784787264
- Páginas: 194
- Fecha de edición: 2016
pvp.13,20 €
Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias
Slim, accessible, inexpensive, irreverent introduction to socialism by the writers of Jacobin magazine
The remarkable run of self-proclaimed 'democratic socialist' Bernie Sanders for president of the United States has prompted'for the first time in ... -
The Communist Manifesto / The April Theses
Lenin, V. Marx, Karl
Verso Books (2016)
- EAN: 9781784786908
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha de edición: 2016
pvp.12,10 €
Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias
A new beautiful edition of the Communist Manifesto, combined with Lenins key revolutionary tract
It was the 1917 Russian Revolution that transformed the scale of the Communist Manifesto, making it the key text for ... -
Inventing the Future "Postcapitalism and a World without Work"
Srnicek, Nick Williams, Alex
Verso Books (2016)
- EAN: 9781784786229
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha de edición: 2016
pvp.14,95 €
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Neoliberalism isnt working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant political practices that offer no respite.
Inventing the Future is a bold ... -
The Reproach of Hunger "Food, Justice and Money in the 21st Century "
Rieff, David
Verso Books (2015)
- EAN: 9781784784072
- Páginas: 432
- Fecha de edición: 2015
pvp.21,95 €
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In 2000 the world's leaders and experts agreed that the eradication of hunger was the essential task for the new millennium. Yet in the last decade the price of wheat, soya and rice have spiraled, ...
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How Will Capitalism End? "Essays on a Failing System "
Streeck, Wolfgang
Verso Books (2016)
- EAN: 9781784784010
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha de edición: 2016
pvp.24,95 €
Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias
In How Will Capitalism End? the acclaimed analyst of contemporary politics and economics Wolfgang Streeck argues that capitalism is now in a critical condition. Growth is giving way to secular stagnation; inequality is leading to ...
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Four Futures "Life After Capitalism "
Frase, Peter
Verso Books (2016)
- EAN: 9781781688137
- Páginas: 160
- Fecha de edición: 2016
pvp.13,50 €
Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias
It is easier to imagine the end of the world," the theorist Fredric Jameson has remarked, "than to imagine the end of capitalism." Jacobin Editor Peter Frase argues that technological advancements and environmental threats will ...
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In Defense of Housing
Madden, David Marcuse, Peter
Verso Books (2016)
- EAN: 9781784783549
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha de edición: 2016
pvp.24,95 €
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Everyone needs and deserves housing. But today our homes are being transformed into commodities, making the inequalities of the city ever more acute. Profit has become more important than social need, The poor are forced ...
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Chavs "The Demonization of the Working Class"
Jones, Owen
Verso Books (2016)
- EAN: 9781784783778
- Páginas: 320
- Fecha de edición: 2016
pvp.14,95 €
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In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. From Little Britains Vicky Pollard to the demonization of Jade Goody, media and politicians alike dismiss as feckless, criminalized and ignorant ...
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The Happiness Industry "How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being"
Davies, William
Verso Books (2016)
- EAN: 9781784780951
- Páginas: 320
- Fecha de edición: 2016
pvp.14,95 €
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In the past decade, governments and corporations have become increasingly interested in measuring the way people feel: 'the Happiness index', 'Gross National Happiness', 'well-being' and positive psychology have come to dominate the way we live ...
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The City "London and the Global Power of Finance"
Norfield, Tony
Verso Books (2016)
- EAN: 9781784783662
- Páginas: 320
- Fecha de edición: 2016
pvp.29,95 €
Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias
The City, as London's financial centre is known, is the world's biggest international banking and foreign exchange market, shaping the development of global capital. It is also, as this groundbreaking book reveals, a crucial part ...
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The EU "An Obituary"
Gillingham, John R.
Verso Books (2016)
- EAN: 9781784784218
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha de edición: 2016
pvp.19,50 €
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The European Union is a besieged institution. It is struggling in vain to overcome the eurozone crisis and faces an influx of refugees not seen since World War II. The Schengen Agreement is a dead ...
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Alternatives to Capitalism "Proposals for a Democratic Economy"
Hahnel, Robin Wright, Eric Olin
Verso Books (2016)
- EAN: 9781784785048
- Páginas: 192
- Fecha de edición: 2016
pvp.19,50 €
Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias
What would a viable free and democratic society look like? Poverty, exploitation, instability, hierarchy, subordination, environmental exhaustion, radical inequalities of wealth and power-it is not difficult to list capitalism's myriad injustices. But is there a ...
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How Did We Get into This Mess? "Politics, Equality, Nature"
Monbiot, George
Verso Books (2016)
- EAN: 9781784783624
- Páginas: 352
- Fecha de edición: 2016
pvp.25,75 €
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Here are some of the things I try to fight: undemocratic power, corruption, deception of the public, environmental destruction, injustice, inequality and the misallocation of resources, waste, denial, the libertarianism which grants freedom to the ...
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The Pristine Culture of Capitalism
Meiksins Wood, Ellen
Verso Books (2015)
- EAN: 9781784781033
- Páginas: 212
- Fecha de edición: 2015
pvp.22,60 €
Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias
Capitalism was born in England, yet the dominant Western conceptions of modernity have come from elsewhere, notably from France, the historical model of "bourgeois" society. In this lively and wide-ranging book, Ellen Meiksins Wood argues ...