Libros de: Verso Books

Mostrando 148 libros encontrados. (8 páginas).


  • Out of the Wreckage "A New Politics in an Age of Crisis"

    Monbiot, George

    Verso Books (2017)

    valoración

    • 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)

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    • EAN: 9781786632982
    • Páginas: 272
    • Fecha de edición: 2017

    pvp.14,95 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    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)

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    • 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. ...

  • In the Long Run We Are All Dead "Keynesianism, Political Economy, and Revolution"

    Mann, Geoff

    Verso Books (2017)

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    • 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 ...

  • The Origin of Capitalism "A Longer View"

    Meiksins Wood, Ellen

    Verso Books (2017)

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    • 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 ...

  • The Production of Money "How to Break the Power of Bankers"

    Pettifor, Ann

    Verso Books (2016)

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    • 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 ...

  • The ABCs of Socialism

    Sunkara, Bhaskar

    Verso Books (2016)

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    • 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)

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    • 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)

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    • EAN: 9781784786229
    • Páginas: 272
    • Fecha de edición: 2016

    pvp.14,95 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    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)

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    • EAN: 9781784784072
    • Páginas: 432
    • Fecha de edición: 2015

    pvp.21,95 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    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, ...

  • How Will Capitalism End? "Essays on a Failing System "

    Streeck, Wolfgang

    Verso Books (2016)

    valoración

    • 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 ...

  • Four Futures "Life After Capitalism "

    Frase, Peter

    Verso Books (2016)

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    • 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 ...

  • In Defense of Housing

    Madden, David Marcuse, Peter

    Verso Books (2016)

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    • EAN: 9781784783549
    • Páginas: 240
    • Fecha de edición: 2016

    pvp.24,95 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    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 ...

  • Chavs "The Demonization of the Working Class"

    Jones, Owen

    Verso Books (2016)

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    • EAN: 9781784783778
    • Páginas: 320
    • Fecha de edición: 2016

    pvp.14,95 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    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 ...

  • The Happiness Industry "How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being"

    Davies, William

    Verso Books (2016)

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    • EAN: 9781784780951
    • Páginas: 320
    • Fecha de edición: 2016

    pvp.14,95 €

    Disponible entre 11 y 20 dias

    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 ...

  • The City "London and the Global Power of Finance"

    Norfield, Tony

    Verso Books (2016)

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    • 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 ...

  • The EU "An Obituary"

    Gillingham, John R.

    Verso Books (2016)

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    • 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 ...

  • Alternatives to Capitalism "Proposals for a Democratic Economy"

    Hahnel, Robin Wright, Eric Olin

    Verso Books (2016)

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    • 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 ...

  • How Did We Get into This Mess? "Politics, Equality, Nature"

    Monbiot, George

    Verso Books (2016)

    valoración

    • 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 ...

  • The Pristine Culture of Capitalism

    Meiksins Wood, Ellen

    Verso Books (2015)

    valoración

    • 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 ...