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  • Unwinding Privatization

    Cities and the Restoration of Public Power

    Edited by Alba Alexander, Larry Bennett, Evan McKenzie, Michael A. Pagano ...
    Series series Urban and Industrial Environments
    How remunicipalization can be implemented to restructure urban governance.Across North America, Europe, and the Global South, public services such as water and energy that were once privatized have returned to public sector functions—an intriguing new development known as remunicipalization. Unwinding Privatization, edited by Alba Alexander, Larry Bennett, Evan McKenzie, and Michael Pagano, ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Planetary Politics

    Human Rights, Terror, and Global Society

    by Alba Alexander, Drucilla Cornell, Irene Gendzier, Sam Gindin, Philip Green, Dick Howard, Micheline Ishay, Kurt Jacobsen, Leo Panitch, Karsten J. Struhl, Nadia Urbinati, David Held, Ulrich Beck, Carl Boggs, Douglas Kellner, Manfred B. Steger, Michael J. Thompson ...
    Series series Logos: Perspectives on Modern Society and Culture
    Global society has been analyzed in any number of ways: books dealing with its economic and cultural implications flood the market. But Planetary Politics highlights something unique. It explores globalization with an eye on the transformation of politics into a planetary enterprise. Unifying this collection is a political purpose: the attempt to engage in progressive fashion the dominant trends, ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Private Metropolis

    The Eclipse of Local Democratic Governance

    Edited by Dennis R. Judd, Evan McKenzie, Alba Alexander ...
    Series series Globalization and Community
    Examines the complex ecology of quasi-public and privatized institutions that mobilize and administer many of the political, administrative, and fiscal resources of today’s metropolitan regionsIn recent decades metropolitan regions in the United States have witnessed the rise of multitudes of “shadow governments” that often supersede or replace functions traditionally associated with ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

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  • The Logic of Discipline

    Global Capitalism and the Architecture of Government

    by Alasdair Roberts ...
    Even before the global economic crisis of 2007-2009, the logic of discipline was under assault. Faced with many failed reform projects, advocates of discipline realized that they had underestimated the complexity of governmental change. Opponents of discipline emphasized the damage to democratic values that followed from the empowerment of new groups of technocrat-guardians. A sweeping account of ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The System Worked

    How the World Stopped Another Great Depression

    by Daniel W. Drezner ...
    International institutions, from the International Monetary Fund to the International Olympic Committee, are perceived as bastions of sclerotic mediocrity at best and outright corruption at worst, and this perception is generally not far off the mark. In the wake of the 2008 financial crash, Daniel W. Drezner, like so many others, looked at the smoking ruins of the global economy and wondered why ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • International Security

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Christopher S. Browning ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The subject of international security is never out of the headlines. The subjects of war and peace, military strategy, the proliferation of nuclear weapons and revisionist states remain central to the discussion, but burgeoning concerns such as climate change, migration, poverty, health, and international terrorism have complicated the field. So what really matters? The traditional prioritization ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Vulture Capitalism

    Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom

    by Grace Blakeley ...
    Winner of the 2025 Ellen Meiksins Wood PrizeIn the vein of*The Shock DoctrineandEvil Geniuses*, this timely and “galvanizing” (Naomi Klein, New York Times bestselling author) manifesto illustrates how corporate and political power brokers have used capitalism to advance their own interests at the expense of the rest of us—and how we can take back our economy.It’s easy to look at the state ... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Great Regression

    Edited by Heinrich Geiselberger ...
    We are living through a period of dramatic political change – Brexit, the election of Trump, the rise of extreme right movements in Europe and elsewhere, the resurgence of nationalism and xenophobia and a concerted assault on the liberal values and ideals associated with cosmopolitanism and globalization. Suddenly we find ourselves in a world that few would have imagined possible just a few years ... Read more

    $14.00 USD

  • The Fifteen Biggest Lies about the Economy

    And Everything Else the Right Doesn't Want You to Know about Taxes, Jobs, and Corporate America

    by Joshua Holland ...
    AlterNet editor Joshua Holland demolishes the Right's biggest and most outrageous myths about the economyTaxes kill growth. Labor unions hurt their members. Government regulation destroys jobs. These are just a few of the biggest lies in the web of misinformation spun by conservatives and the Chamber of Commerce. Holland's book dissects each malicious fiction to show how the Right is just plain ... Read more

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  • Limitarianism

    The Case Against Extreme Wealth

    by Ingrid Robeyns ...
    **A New Yorker Best Book of 2024A History Today Book of the Year"A powerful case for limitarianism—the idea that we should set a maximum on how much resources one individual can appropriate. A must-read!"—Thomas Piketty, bestselling author of Capital in the Twenty-First CenturyAn original and galvanizing indictment of the world’s uber-rich that boldly argues for a cap on wealth from the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Poor Numbers

    How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics and What to Do about It

    by Morten Jerven ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Political Economy
    One of the most urgent challenges in African economic development is to devise a strategy for improving statistical capacity. Reliable statistics, including estimates of economic growth rates and per-capita income, are basic to the operation of governments in developing countries and vital to nongovernmental organizations and other entities that provide financial aid to them. Rich countries and ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • In Defense of Housing

    The Politics of Crisis

    by Peter Marcuse, David Madden ...
    In every major city in the world there is a housing crisis. How did this happen and what can we do about it?Everyone needs and deserves housing. But today our homes are being transformed into commodities, making the inequalities of the city ever more acute. Profit has become more important than social need. The poor are forced to pay more for worse housing. Communities are faced with the violence ... Read more

    $9.99 USD