Libros de: Verso Books
Mostrando 148 libros encontrados. (8 páginas).
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The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg Vol.1 "Economic Writings"
Luxemburgo, Rosa
Verso Books (2014)
- EAN: 9781781687659
- Páginas: 624
- Fecha de edición: 2014
pvp.39,95 €
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This first volume in Rosa Luxemburg's "Complete Works, " entitled "Economic Writings 1," contains some of Luxemburg's most important statements on the globalization of capital, wage labor, imperialism, and pre-capitalist economic formations. In addition to ...
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Buying Time "The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism"
Streeck, Wolfgang
Verso Books (2014)
- EAN: 9781781685488
- Páginas: 192
- Fecha de edición: 2014
pvp.19,95 €
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WOLFGANG STREECK is the director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Research in Cologne and professor of sociology at the University of Cologne. He has previously held positions in Frankfurt, New York, Munster, and ...
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The Village Against the World
Hancox, Dan
Verso Books (2014)
- EAN: 9781781682982
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2014
pvp.13,50 €
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One hundred kilometres from Seville lies the small village of Marinaleda, which for the last thirty-five years has been the centre of a tireless struggle to create a living utopia. This unique community drew British ...
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The Secret World of Oil
Silverstein, Ken
Verso Books (2014)
- EAN: 9781781681374
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha de edición: 2014
pvp.19,95 €
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The oil industry provides the lifeblood of modern civilization, and bestselling books have been written about the industry and even individual companies in it, like ExxonMobil. But the modern oil industry is an amazingly shady ...
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Making Money "The Philosophy of Crisis Capitalism"
Bjerg, Ole
Verso Books (2014)
- EAN: 9781781682654
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2014
pvp.26,95 €
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What is money? Where does it come from? Who makes our money today? And how can we understand the current state of our economy as a crisis of money itself? In "Making Money, " Ole ...
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Utopia or Bust "A Guide to the Present Crisis"
Kunkel, Benjamin
Verso Books (2014)
- EAN: 9781781683279
- Páginas: 160
- Fecha de edición: 2014
pvp.12,15 €
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"The deepest economic crisis in eighty years prompted a shallow revival of Marxism," writes Benjamin Kunkel of the 2008 recession--and the shallowness was undoubtedly a result of the complex, sometimes difficult nature of contemporary Marxist ...
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On the Reproduction of Capitalism "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses"
Althusser, Louis
Verso Books (2014)
- EAN: 9781781681640
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha de edición: 2014
pvp.26,95 €
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Louis Althusser's renowned short text 'Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses' radically transformed the concept of the subject, the understanding of the state and even the very frameworks of cultural, political and literary theory. The text ...
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Profiting without Producing "How Finance Exploits Us All"
Lapavitsas, Costas
Verso Books (2013)
- EAN: 9781781681411
- Páginas: 352
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.26,95 €
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Financialization is one of the most innovative concepts to emerge in the field of political economy during the last three decades, although there is no agreement on what exactly it is. "Profiting Without Producing" puts ...
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The Age of Globalization "Anarchists and the Anticolonial Imagination"
Anderson, Benedict
Verso Books (2013)
- EAN: 9781781681442
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.17,50 €
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The exchange of ideas makes history as surely as the exchange of gunfire. "The Age of Globalization "(previously published as Under Three Flags) is an account of the unlikely connections that made up late nineteenth-century ...
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A Companion to Marx's Capital "2 Vol. Set"
Harvey, David
Verso Books (2013)
- EAN: 9781781682494
- Páginas: 752
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.24,95 €
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The Making of Global Capitalism "The Political Economy of American Empire"
Panitch, Leo
Verso Books (2013)
- EAN: 9781781681367
- Páginas: 464
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.17,95 €
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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 ...
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The Oil Road "Journeys from the Caspian Sea to the City of London"
Marriott, James
Verso Books (2013)
- EAN: 9781781681282
- Páginas: 380
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.17,60 €
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From Caspian drilling rigs and Caucasus mountain villages to Mediterranean fishing communities and European capitals, this is a journey through the heart of our oil-obsessed society. Blending travel writing and investigative journalism, it charts a ...
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The Poorer Nations "A Possible History of the Global South"
Prashad, Vijay
Verso Books (2013)
- EAN: 9781844679522
- Páginas: 304
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.22,95 €
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In The Darker Nations, Vijay Prashad provided an intellectual history of the Third World and told the story of the rise and fall of the Non-Aligned Movement.
With The Poorer Nations, Prashad takes up ... -
Landgrabbing "Journeys in the New Colonialism"
Liberti, Stefano
Verso Books (2013)
- EAN: 9781781681176
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.20,25 €
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To the governments and corporations that are currently buying up vast tracts of the Third World, it is called "land leasing." To its critics this new era of colonization is nothing more than "land grabbing." ...
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Carbon Democracy "Political Power in the Age of Oil"
Mitchell, Timothy
Verso Books (2013)
- EAN: 9781781681169
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.17,50 €
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Oil is a curse, it is often said, that condemns the countries producing it to an existence defined by war, corruption and enormous inequality. Carbon Democracy tells a more complex story, arguing that no nation ...
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The Long Twentieth Century
Arrighi, Giovanni
Verso Books (2009)
- EAN: 9781844673049
- Páginas: 400
- Fecha de edición: 2009
pvp.20,25 €
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"The Long Twentieth Century" traces the epochal shifts in the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period. Borrowing from Braudel, Arrighi argues that the history of capitalism has unfolded as a ...
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24/7 Terminal Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep
Crary, Jonathan
Verso Books (2013)
- EAN: 9781781680933
- Páginas: 144
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.13,50 €
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24/7 explores some of the ruinous consequences of the expanding, non- stop processes of twenty-first-century capitalism. The marketplace now operates twenty-four hours of every day and demands our constant activity, eroding forms of community, political ...
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Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste "How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown"
Mirowski, P.
Verso Books (2013)
- EAN: 9781781680797
- Páginas: 384
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.27,00 €
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At the onset of the Great Recession, as house prices sank and joblessness soared, many commentators thought that neoliberalism itself was in its death throes. And yet it seems that - post-apocalypse - we've woken ...
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Living in the End of Times
Zizek, Slavoj
Verso Books (2011)
- EAN: 9781844677023
- Páginas: 432
- Fecha de edición: 2011
pvp.17,50 €
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The underlying premise of the book is a simple one: the global capitalist system is approaching an apocalyptic zero-point. Its four riders of the apocalypse are the ecological crisis, the consequences of the biogenetic revolution, ...
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Rationality and Irrationality in Economics
Godelier, Maurice
Verso Books (2013)
- EAN: 9781781680254
- Páginas: 368
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.14,50 €
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An analysis of social and economic systems and why they appear and disappear throughout history.
This book is the result of a research project begun by the author in 1958 with the ...