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Capitalism for All
(January 2022)
Realizing Its Liberal Promise
Neil E. Harrison - Author
John Mikler - Author
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Demostrates that a true liberal capitalism still has the capacity to enable personal well-being while dealing with new challenges such as pandemics, climate change, and automation.
Capitalism has lost its glamor. In just three decades since it "defeated" a totalitarian Soviet Union, capitalism is today blamed for slowing growth, a dangerously changing climate, inequality, social mi...(Read More) |
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The Tyranny of Common Sense
(November 2021)
Mexico's Post-Neoliberal Conversion
Irmgard Emmelhainz - Author
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Elucidates how neoliberalism rules all areas of life and operates as a form of common sense, taking Mexico as a case study.
As one of the first countries to implement a neoliberal state apparatus, Mexico serves as a prime example of the effects of neoliberal structural economic reform on our sensibility. Irgmard Emmelhainz argues that, in addition to functioning as a form of politi...(Read More) |
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A New American Labor Movement
(October 2021)
The Decline of Collective Bargaining and the Rise of Direct Action
William E. Scheuerman - Author
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Describes how new kinds of direct-action labor movements are emerging to reshape American labor activism in the twenty-first century.
The American labor movement isn't dead. It's just moving from the bargaining table to the streets. In A New American Labor Movement, William Scheuerman analyzes how the decline of unions and the emergence of these new direct-action movements a...(Read More) |
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Imagining the Fed
(April 2021)
The Struggle for the Heart of the Federal Reserve, 1913-1970
Nicolas Thompson - Author
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Traces the six-decade struggle for power within the Federal Reserve System from the perspective of the central bankers who shaped the Fed.
Imagining the Fed traces a six-decade struggle to shape the Federal Reserve’s policymaking organs, the Washington-based Board and the Federal Open Market Committee. Conventional wisdom holds that Congress ended the system’s strugg...(Read More) |
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University Management, the Academic Profession, and Neoliberalism
(August 2020)
John S. Levin - Author
Marie C. Martin - Author
Ariadna I. López Damián - Author
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A unique examination of how faculty and university administrators understand their work and professional identities under neoliberalism.
This book examines tensions and challenges in the professional lives and identities of contemporary academics. Drawing on extensive interviews conducted over seven years with academics in the United States and the United Kingdom, the authors analy...(Read More) |
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A Turbulent South Africa
(March 2018)
Post-apartheid Social Protest
Jérôme Tournadre - Author
Andrew Brown - Translator
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Highlights the continuing social unrest and public protest occurring in South Africa’s poorest districts.
Frequently praised for its democratic transition, South Africa has experienced an almost uninterrupted cycle of social protest since the late 1990s. There have been increasing numbers of demonstrations against the often appalling living conditions of millions of South Africans, pointing to the fact that they have yet ...(Read More) |
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Energy, the Modern State, and the American World System
(March 2018)
George A. Gonzalez - Author
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Examines political authority in the modern era as a function of specific energy politics.
In this provocative and original study, George A. Gonzalez argues that the relationship between energy and the state, as well as global politics, has become more and more deeply intertwined, reaching something of a crescendo with the global hegemony of Pax Americana in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. He presents a cle...(Read More) |
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The Debt of the Living
(January 2017)
Ascesis and Capitalism
Elettra Stimilli - Author
Arianna Bove - Translator
Roberto Esposito - Foreword by
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Analyzes theological and philosophical understandings of debt and its role in contemporary capitalism.
Max Weber’s account of the rise of capitalism focused on his concept of a Protestant ethic, valuing diligence in earning and saving money but restraint in spending it. However, such individual restraint is foreign to contemporary understandings of finance, which treat ever-increasing consumption and debt as natural, almo...(Read More) |
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Containing Community
(October 2016)
From Political Economy to Ontology in Agamben, Esposito, and Nancy
Greg Bird - Author
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2017 Symposium Book Award, presented by the Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy
Analyzes the role of community in the writings of Giorgio Agamben, Roberto Esposito, and Jean-Luc Nancy.
Community has been both celebrated and demonized as a fortress that shelters and defends its members from being exposed to difference. Instead of abandoning community as an anti...(Read More) |
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Toward a Critical Theory of States
(July 2016)
The Poulantzas-Miliband Debate after Globalization
Clyde W. Barrow - Author
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In-depth study of the enduring impact of the 1970s debate between state theorists Ralph Miliband and Nicos Poulantzas.
We have recently lived through the turmoil of a global financial crisis that originated in the United States and, despite the platitudes of neo-liberal ideology, nation-states were deeply involved in managing this crisis. If “the state” is again a preeminent actor in the global econo...(Read More) |
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