Libros de: Verso Books
Mostrando 155 libros encontrados. (8 páginas).
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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 ... -
Capitalism, Socialism, Ecology
Gorz, Andre
Verso Books (2013)
- EAN: 9781781680261
- Páginas: 160
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.13,50 €
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In this major new book, Andre Gorz expands on the political implications of his prescient and influential Paths to Paradise and Critique of Economic Reason. Against the background of technological developments which have transformed the ...
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The Making of Global Capitalism
Gindin, Sam Panitch, Leo
Verso Books (2012)
- EAN: 9781844677429
- Páginas: 464
- Fecha de edición: 2012
pvp.27,15 €
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Panitch and Gindin's monumental study offers a significant rethinking of the development of global capitalism. Transcending classical theories of interimperialist rivalry and the false dichotomy between states and markets in the neoliberal era, this book ...
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Crisis in the Eurozone
Lapavitsas, Costas
Verso Books (2012)
- EAN: 9781844679690
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha de edición: 2012
pvp.17,95 €
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Building on his work as a leading member of the renowned Research on Money and Finance group, Costas Lapavitsas presents a searing critique of the neoliberal nature of the Eurozone and ruthlessly dissects the roots ...
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The Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class
Pijl, K. Van Der
Verso Books (2012)
- EAN: 9781844678716
- Páginas: 384
- Fecha de edición: 2012
pvp.26,95 €
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With The Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class, Kees van der Pijl put class formation at the heart of our understanding of world politics and the global economy. This landmark study dissects one of the ...
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The Bonds of Debt "Borrowing Against the Common Good"
Borrowing Against the Common GoodDienst, Richard
Verso Books (2011)
- EAN: 9781844676910
- Páginas: 176
- Fecha de edición: 2011
pvp.18,90 €
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"Man is born free and is everywhere in debt,' declared the Economist in the summer of 2010, a cheeky admission that indebtedness and liberation are once again on the agenda across the globe. In this ...
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Intern Nation "How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy"
How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New EconomyPerlin, Ross
Verso Books (2011)
- EAN: 9781844676866
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha de edición: 2011
pvp.21,90 €
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Every year, at least half a million Americans work as interns. They famously shuttle coffee in a thousand newsrooms, congressional offices, and Hollywood studios, but they also deliver aid in Afghanistan, build the human genome, ...
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Liberalism "A Counter-History"
A Counter-HistoryLosurdo, Domenico
Verso Books (2011)
- EAN: 9781844676934
- Páginas: 384
- Fecha de edición: 2011
pvp.29,15 €
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In this definitive historical investigation of the formation of liberalism from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, Domenico Losurdo overturns complacent and self-congratulatory accounts by showing that, from its very origins, liberalism and its main ...
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The Actuality of Communism
Bosteels, Bruno
Verso Books (2011)
- EAN: 9781844676958
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2011
pvp.18,95 €
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One of the rising stars of Us critical theory, Bruno Bosteels discusses the new currents of thought represented by figures such as Badiou, Ranci#xC3;#xA8;re and Zizek, who are spearheading the recent revival of interest in ...
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Planet Of Slums
Davis, Mike
Verso Books (2007)
- EAN: 9781844671601
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2007
pvp.14,55 €
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With a third of the global urban population already living in Dickensian slums, at least half under the age of twenty, Mike Davis explores the threat of disease, of forced settlement on hazardous terrains, and ...
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The Thin Blue Line "How Humanitarianism Went To War"
How Humanitarianism Went To WarFoley, Conor
Verso Books (2010)
- EAN: 9781844676286
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha de edición: 2010
pvp.14,55 €
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This is an acclaimed exploration of humanitarianism's emergence as a multibillion-dollar industry that has played a leading role in defining international crises, and shaping the foreign policy of Western governments and the United Nations. Drawing ...
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Green Gone Wrong "The Broken Promise Of The Eco-Friendly Economy"
The Broken Promise Of The Eco-Friendly EconomyRogers, Heather
Verso Books (2010)
- EAN: 9781844676453
- Páginas: 176
- Fecha de edición: 2010
pvp.24,75 €
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Faced with the unprecedented threat of climate change, the contemporary world has turned to a solution that is all too prosaic-consumerism. The answer, we are told, is to go green, to buy organic food or ...
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The Communist Hypothesis
Badiou, Alain
Verso Books (2010)
- EAN: 9781844676002
- Páginas: 192
- Fecha de edición: 2010
pvp.18,95 €
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We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy - the form of state suited to capitalism - and to ...
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Uneven Development
Smith, Neil
Verso Books (2010)
- EAN: 9781844676439
- Páginas: 328
- Fecha de edición: 2010
pvp.24,75 €
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In "Uneven Development", a classic in its field, Neil Smith offers the first full theory of uneven geographical development, expanding on established ideas regarding space and nature and combining these with a critique of capitalist ...