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  • From Financial Crisis to Social Change

    Towards Alternative Horizons

    Edited by Torsten Geelan, Marcos González Hernando, Peter William Walsh ...
    This edited collection critically engages with a range of contemporary issues in the aftermath of the North Atlantic financial crisis that began in 2007. From challenging the erosion of academic authority to the myth that parliamentary democracy is not worth engaging with, it addresses three interrelated questions facing young people today: how to reclaim our universities, how to revitalise our ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • Inventing the Future

    Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

    by Nick SRNICEK, Alex Williams ...
    This major new manifesto offers a “clear and compelling vision of a postcapitalist society” and shows how left-wing politics can be rebuilt for the 21st century (Mark Fisher, author of Capitalist Realism)Neoliberalism isn’t 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 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The History Manifesto

    by Jo Guldi, David Armitage ...
    How should historians speak truth to power – and why does it matter? Why is five hundred years better than five months or five years as a planning horizon? And why is history – especially long-term history – so essential to understanding the multiple pasts which gave rise to our conflicted present? The History Manifesto is a call to arms to historians and everyone interested in the role of history ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • The Real World of Democracy

    by C.B. Macpherson ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    In his 1964 CBC Massey Lectures C. B. Macpherson examines the rival ideas of democracy - the communist, Third World, and Western-liberal variants - and their impact on one another. He suggests that the West need not fear any challenge to liberal democracy if it is prepared to re-examine and alter its own values. ... Read more

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  • An Analysis of Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom

    by David Linden, Nick Broten ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Friedrich Hayek’s 1944 Road to Serfdom is a classic of conservative economic argument. While undeniably a product of a specific time in global politics – which saw the threat of fascism from Nazi Germany and its allies beguilingly answered by the promises of socialism – Hayek’s carefully constructed argument is a fine example of the importance of good reasoning in critical thinking.Reasoning is ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • Postliberal Politics

    The Coming Era of Renewal

    by Adrian Pabst ...
    Hyper-capitalism and extreme identity politics are driving us to distraction. Both destroy the basis of a common life shared across ages and classes. The COVID-19 crisis could accelerate these tendencies further, or it could herald something more hopeful: a post-liberal moment.Adrian Pabst argues that now is the time for an alternative – postliberalism – that is centred around trust, dignity, and ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • The Ungovernable Society

    A Genealogy of Authoritarian Liberalism

    by Grégoire Chamayou ...
    Translated by Andrew Brown ...
    Rebellion was in the air. Workers were on strike, students were demonstrating on campuses, discipline was breaking down. No relation of domination was left untouched – the relation between the sexes, the racial order, the hierarchies of class, relationships in families, workplaces and colleges. The upheavals of the late 1960s and early 1970s quickly spread through all sectors of social and ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Beyond Right and Left

    New politics and the culture wars

    by David McKnight ...
    'Original, courageous, realistic and fresh.' Robert Manne, Professor, School of Politics, La Trobe UniversityDo Right and Left still mean anything in politics? Are environmental issues always 'left wing'? Is it only 'right wing' to worry about the family? In fact, these traditional connections have broken down, but what is taking their place?In Australian politics today a new free market Right ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • An Analysis of James Ferguson's The Anti-Politics Machine

    by Julie Jenkins ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    The Anti-Politics Machine (1990) examines how international development projects are conceived, researched, and put into practice. It also looks at what these projects actually achieve. Ferguson criticizes the idea of externally-directed ‘development’ and argues that the process doesn’t take proper account of the daily realities of the communities it is intended to benefit. Instead, they often ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • Anti-capitalism

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Simon Tormey ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    Specifically, the book tackles the question: Who exactly are the anti-capitalists and what do they want? Simon Tormey examines the ideas of the various components that make up the movement: the anarchists and Marxists, the greens and environmentalists, the anti-corporate activists and autonomists, among many others. He looks in detail at how the movement operates its reliance on a unique ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Power of Market Fundamentalism

    Karl Polanyi’s Critique

    by Fred Block, Margaret R. Somers ...
    What is it about free-market ideas that give them tenacious staying power in the face of such manifest failures as persistent unemployment, widening inequality, and the severe financial crises that have stressed Western economies over the past forty years? Fred Block and Margaret Somers extend the work of the great political economist Karl Polanyi to explain why these ideas have revived from ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • Politics Without Sovereignty

    A Critique of Contemporary International Relations

    Edited by Christopher Bickerton, Philip Cunliffe, Alexander Gourevitch ...
    Written by leading scholars, this volume challenges the recent trend in international relations scholarship – the common antipathy to sovereignty.The classical doctrine of sovereignty is widely seen as totalitarian, producing external aggression and internal repression. Political leaders and opinion-makers throughout the world claim that the sovereign state is a barrier to efficient global ... Read more

    $67.99 USD