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  • Understanding Marxism

    by Richard D. Wolff ...
    Series Book 2 - Democracy at Work
    Richard D. Wolff masterfully explains why Karl Marx’s analysis of class struggle is fundamental to a proper understanding of capitalism and explores how to build a more sustainable democratic society.Class struggle is everywhere, and it influences everything and everyone in our society. Marx is the person who first explained this struggle systematically. For Marx, capitalism signified not the end ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Understanding Capitalism

    by Richard D. Wolff ...
    Series Book 1 - Democracy at Work
    “Why does capitalism fail us?” Richard D. Wolff walks readers through this pressing question in a brilliant takedown of an economic system that benefits the few at the great expense of the many.Understanding Capitalism explores the different definitions of what capitalism is and is not, and dissolves the many myths that, Wolff argues, are designed to confuse and disorient us. Wolff doesn’t simply ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Understanding Socialism

    by Richard D. Wolff ...
    Series Book 3 - Democracy at Work
    Socialism is a yearning for justice, community, and the greater realization of human potential. Cornel West calls it “the best accessible and reliable treatment we have of what socialism is, was, and should be.”Understanding Socialism is a plainspoken text that disarms false narratives, confronts past failures, and offers a path to a fresh and modern understanding of socialism, by outlining what ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Understanding Socialism

    by Richard D. Wolff ...
    A blend of history, analysis, and theory, "Understanding Socialism" is an honest and approachable text that knocks down false narratives, confronts failures and challenges of various socialist experiments throughout history, and offers a path to a new socialism based on workplace democracy. "Richard Wolff's book is the best accessible and reliable treatment we have of what socialism is, was, and ... Read more

    $13.09 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Capitalism's Crisis Deepens

    Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown

    by Richard D. Wolff ...
    "The leading socialist economist in the country" explores the roots of the Great Recession and its immense impact on working people (Cornel West).While most mainstream commentators view the crisis that provoked the Great Recession as having passed, these essays from Richard Wolff paint a far less rosy picture. Drawing attention to the extreme downturn in most of capitalism's old centers, the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Understanding Marxism

    by Richard D. Wolff ...
    Why should we pay attention to the great social critics like Marx? Americans, especially now, confront serious questions and evidences that our capitalist system is in trouble. It clearly serves the 1% far, far better than what it is doing to the vast mass of the people. Marx was a social critic for whom capitalism was not the end of human history. It was just the latest phase and badly needed the ... Read more

    $10.49 CAD

  • The Story of Josh and Billy

    by Richard D Wolfe ...
    "The Story of Josh and Billy" is a dark and gripping coming-of-age crime thriller that follows the intense and often harrowing journey of two teenage boys, Josh and Billy, who form a bond rooted in shared trauma and dysfunctional home lives. Set in the 1980s, the story begins with a friendship forged on a school bus and quickly spirals into a series of increasingly dangerous and violent events. ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself

    by Richard D. Wolff ...
    The coronavirus pandemic, the deepening economic crash, dangerously divisive political responses, and exploding social tensions have thrown an already declining American capitalist system into a tailspin. The consequences of these mounting and intertwined crises will shape our future. In this unique collection of over 50 essays, "The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Occupy the Economy

    Challenging Capitalism

    by Richard D. Wolff, David Barsamian ...
    Series series City Lights Open Media
    Today’s economic crisis is capitalism’s worst since the Great Depression. Millions have lost their jobs, homes and healthcare while those who work watch their pensions, benefits and job security decline. As more and more are impacted by the crisis, the system continues to make the very wealthy even richer. In eye-opening interviews with prominent economist Richard Wolff, David Barsamian probes the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Capitalism Hits the Fan

    The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It

    by Richard D. Wolff ...
    A BREATHTAKINGLY CLEAR ANALYSIS OF TODAY’S ONGOING ECONOMIC CRISIS In this updated edition of Capitalism Hits the Fan, Professor Wolff explains why capitalism's global crisis persists, why bank bailouts and austerity policies fail, and why deepening economic inequality now generates historic social tensions and conflicts and worsens the ongoing crisis. This book chronicles one economist’s growing ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Contending Economic Theories

    Neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian

    by Richard D. Wolff, Stephen A. Resnick ...
    A systematic comparison of the 3 major economic theories—neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian—showing how they differ and why these differences matter in shaping economic theory and practice.Contending Economic Theories offers a unique comparative treatment of the three main theories in economics as it is taught today: neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian. Each is developed and discussed in its ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Hellhole of the Pacific

    by Richard Wolfe ...
    In the 1830s Kororareka was known as the 'hell-hole of the Pacific'. Whalers, sealers, escaped convicts, seamen, traders and adventurers descended upon this small cove in the Bay. Grog-shops and the oldest profession in the world abounded. At one stage the town was said to be harbouring 'a greater number of rogues than any other spot of equal size in the universe'. Some whaling captains steered ... Read more

    $15.39 CAD