Economics

The capitalist mode of destruction traces contemporary capitalism’s economic, ecological and democratic crises. Combining insights from a range of disciplines, including psychology, sociology and pol …

The right and the recession considers the ways in which conservative activists, groupings, parties and interests in the US and Britain responded to the financial crisis and the ‘Great Recession’ that …

Adam Smith and Karl Marx recognized that the best way to understand the economy is to study the most advanced practice of production. Today that practice is no longer conventional manufacturing: it i …

Political leadership styles in East Asian states are shaped and influenced by a number of domestic factors. These factors include the type of political system that an East Asian state adopted from th …

This book takes a fresh look at Chinese political economy at a key inflection point. Facing a more competitive international environment, Chinese reform has shifted from its earlier focus on economic …

Originally published in German in 1845 and translated into English in 1885, “The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844” is the influential study of the hazards of the Industrial Revolutio …

This is what austerity looks like: a nation surviving on the results of what conservatives privately call ‘the progressive nonsense’ of the Big Society agenda. In a journey that begins and ends in th …

The Communist Road to Capitalism explores how a dynamic of social struggles from below followed by countermeasures of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime has pushed the historical evolution of t …

‘Capitalist critique and proletarian reasoning fit for our time’ – Peter Linebaugh Taking the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume as its subject, this book breaks new ground in focusing its …

The “managerial revolution, ” or the rise of management as a distinct and vital group in industrial society, might be identified as a major development of the modernization processes, similar to the …