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Jacobin eBook Series

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  • Confronting Capitalism

    How the World Works and How to Change It

    by Vivek Chibber ...
    Series series Jacobin
    A strategic guide to building a more democratic and egalitarian futureWhy is our society so unequal? Why, despite their small numbers, do the rich dominate policy and politics even in democratic countries? Why is it so difficult for working people to organize around common interests? How do we begin to build a more equal and democratic society?Vivek Chibber provides a clear and accessible map of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Democracy at Work

    A Cure for Capitalism

    by Richard Wolff ...
    What, and who, are we working for? A thoughtful assessment on our current society from "probably America's most prominent Marxist economist" ( The New York Times).Capitalism as a system has spawned deepening economic crisis alongside its bought-and-paid-for political establishment. Neither serves the needs of our society. Whether it is secure, well-paid, and meaningful jobs or a sustainable ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Economics of Enough

    How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters

    by Diane Coyle ...
    The world's leading economies are facing not just one but many crises. The financial meltdown may not be over, climate change threatens major global disruption, economic inequality has reached extremes not seen for a century, and government and business are widely distrusted. At the same time, many people regret the consumerism and social corrosion of modern life. What these crises have in common, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Straight Talk on Trade

    Ideas for a Sane World Economy

    by Dani Rodrik ...
    An honest discussion of free trade and how nations can sensibly chart a path forward in today’s global economyNot so long ago the nation-state seemed to be on its deathbed, condemned to irrelevance by the forces of globalization and technology. Now it is back with a vengeance, propelled by a groundswell of populists around the world. In Straight Talk on Trade, Dani Rodrik, an early and outspoken ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Reclaiming Populism

    How Economic Fairness Can Win Back Disenchanted Voters

    by Eric Protzer, Paul Summerville ...
    Populist upheavals like Trump, Brexit, and the Gilets Jaunes happen when the system really is rigged. Citizens the world over are angry not due to income inequality or immigration, but economic unfairness: that opportunity is not equal and reward is not according to contribution.This forensic book draws on original research, cited by the UN and IMF, to demonstrate that illiberal populism strikes ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles

    by David Harvey ...
    Series series Red Letter
    Amidst waves of economic crises, health crises, class struggle and neo-fascist reaction, few possess the clarity and foresight of world-renowned theorist, David Harvey. Since the publication of his bestselling A Brief History of Neoliberalism, Harvey has been tracking the evolution of the capitalist system as well as tides of radical opposition rising against it. In The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles, ... Read more

    $9.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Accidental Conflict

    America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives

    by Stephen Roach ...
    The misguided forces driving conflict escalation between America and China, and the path to a new relationship“A timely, fluid, readable assessment of a testy and rapidly changing global relationship.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)In the short span of four years, America and China have entered a trade war, a tech war, and a new Cold War. This conflict between the world’s two most powerful ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Fired Up about Capitalism

    by Tom Malleson ...
    Series Book 1 - Fired Up
    There is no alternative to free-market capitalism. At least that’s what we’ve been told since the 1980s, when Margaret Thatcher first declared the debate over. Politicians daily declare it, journalists parrot it, talk show hosts acquiesce to it, rich people gloat about it, and regular people simply assume it.Fired Up about Capitalism forcefully argues that this is nothing but a myth. Tom Malleson ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Intelligent Governance for the 21st Century

    A Middle Way between West and East

    by Nicolas Berggruen, Nathan Gardels ...
    For decades, liberal democracy has been extolled as the best system of governance to have emerged out of the long experience of history. Today, such a confident assertion is far from self-evident. Democracy, in crisis across the West, must prove itself.In the West today, the authors argue, we no longer live in "industrial democracies," but "consumer democracies" in which the governing ethos has ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • State of the World 2014

    Governing for Sustainability

    by The Worldwatch Institute, David W. Orr, Tom Prugh, Michael Renner, John Gowdy, Robert Engelman, Michael L. Weber, Conor Seyle, Matthew Wilburn King, Matt Leighninger, Diana Lind, Monty Hempel, Peter Brown, Jeremy J. Schmidt, Cormac Cullinan, Isabel Hilton, Sam Geall, Shakuntala Makhijani, Aaron Sachs, Inge Kaul, Maria Ivanova, Rick Worthington, Sean Sweeney, Dr., Thomas Palley, Gar Alperovitz, Colleen Cordes, David Bollier, Burns Weston, Petra Bartosiewicz, Marissa Miley, Evan Musolino, Katie Auth, Nina Netzer, Judith Gouverneur, Josephine Mitschke, Ian Johnson, Yu Hongyuan ...
    Series series State of the World
    Citizens expect their governments to lead on sustainability. But from largely disappointing international conferences like Rio II to the U.S.’s failure to pass meaningful climate legislation, governments’ progress has been lackluster. That’s not to say leadership is absent; it just often comes from the bottom up rather than the top down. Action—on climate, species loss, inequity, and other ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity

    by William J. Baumol, Robert E. Litan, Carl J. Schramm ...
    Imagine this: a mere century ago, the purchasing power of an average American was one-tenth of what it is today. But what will it take to sustain that growth through the next century? And what can be said about economic growth to aspiring nations seeking higher standards of living for their citizens?In this important book, William J. Baumol, Robert E. Litan, and Carl J. Schramm contend that the ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • State-Building

    Governance and World Order in the 21st Century

    by Francis Fukuyama ...
    Series series Messenger Lectures
    Francis Fukuyama famously predicted "the end of history" with the ascendancy of liberal democracy and global capitalism. The topic of his latest book is, therefore, surprising: the building of new nation-states. The end of history was never an automatic procedure, Fukuyama argues, and the well-governed polity was always its necessary precondition. "Weak or failed states are the source of many of ... Read more

    $11.39 USD