Books Received

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 Books Received (updated Summer 2008)

Adams, J.M., and A. Carfagna.  Coming of age in a globalized world:  The next generation (W. Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press, 2006).
Akram-Lodhi, A. Hardoon, R. Chernomas, and A Sepehri, eds. Globalization, neo-conservative policies, and democratic alternatives:  Essays in honor of John Loxley. (Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2005).
Albritton, R., R. Jessop, and R. Westra (eds.) Political Economy and Global Capitalism: The 21st century, present and future, (London: Anthem, 2007).
Anderson, B. Imagined communities: Reflections on the origins and spread of nationalism. (London: Verso, 2006[1983]).
Arestis, P. and A. Saad-Filho (eds.) Political Economy of Brazil: Recent economic performance (London: Palgrave, 2007).
Arrighi, G. Adam Smith in Beijing:  Lineages of the Twenty-first Century (New York: Verso, 2007).
Atkinson, R.D. Supply-side follies: Why conservative economics fails, liberal economics falters, and innovation economics is the answer (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006).
Bacon, D. The children of NAFTA (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005).
Bates, R.H. Beyond the miracle of the market (new edition)  (New York: Cambridge, 2005).
Bebbington, A., M. Woolcock, S. Guggenheim, and E. Olson. The search for empowerment: Social capital as idea and practice at the World Bank (W. Hartford, CT: Kumarian, 2006).
Behera, M.C., ed. Globalising rural development: Competing paradigms and emerging realities (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2006).
Bidet, J. Exploring Marx's Capital: Philosophical, economic and political dimensions (Amsterdam: Brill, 2007).
Bidet, J. and S.  Kouvelakis (eds.) Critical Companion to Contemporary Marxism (Amsterdam: Brill, 2007).
Boltanski, L. and E. Chiapello. The New Spirit of Capitalism (New York: Verso, 2007).
Bonner, B., and A. Wiggin. Empire of debt: The rise of an epic financial crisis (Wiley, 2005).
Boswell, T., C. Brown, J. Brueggemann, and T.R. Peters Jr. Radical competition and class solidarity (Albany: SUNY Press, 2006)
Boyce, J.M., ed. Human development in the era of globalization: Essays in honor of Keith B. Griffin (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2006).
Brien, K.M. Marx, reason and the art of freedom (Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2006)
Brolin, J. The bias of the world: Theories of unequal exchange in history (Lund, Sweden: Lund University Press, 2007).
Bronfenbrenner, K. (ed.) Global Unions: Challenging transnational capital through cross border campaigns, (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007).
Bryan, D., and M. Rafferty. Capitalism with derivatives: A political economy of financial derivatives, capital and class (New York: Palgrave, 2006).
Burkett, P. Marxism and ecological economics: Towards a red and green political economy (Amsterdam: Brill, 2006)
Burczak, T.A. Socialism after Hayek (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006).
Cato, M.S. Market schmarket: Building the post-capitalist economy (Cheltenham: New Clarion Press, 2006).
Cheema, G.S. Building democratic institutions: Governance reform in developing countries (W. Hartford, CT: Kumarian, 2005).
Clark, W.R. Capitalism, not globalism: Capital mobility, central bank independence and the political control of the economy (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005).
Coriat, B., ed. The hardship of nations: Exploring the paths of modern capitalism (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2006).
Cowen, T. Markets and cultural voices: Liberty vs. power in the lives of Mexican amate painters (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005
Daly, H. and J. Farley. Ecological economics: Principles and applications (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2005).
Dana, L.P. When economies change hands: A survey of entrepreneurship in emerging markets of Europe (Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 2005).
Dasgupta, B. Globalisation: India's adjustment experience (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 20005).
Davies, M. and M. Ryner. Poverty and the production of world politics:  Unprotected workers in the global political economy (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).
Debray, R. Praised be our lords: The autobiography (New York: Verso, 2007)
Dello Buono, R.A. and J.B. Lara, eds. Imperialism, neoliberalism and social struggles in Latin America (Amsterdam: Brill, 2007)
Desmaris, A. A.  La Via Campesina: Globalization and the power of the peasants (London: Pluto Press, 2007).
Diaz-Cayeros, A. Federalism, fiscal authority, and centralization in Latin America (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
Dostaler, G. Keynes and his Battles (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2007).
Dublin, T. and W. Light. The face of decline: The Pennsylvania anthracite region in the twentieth century (Ithaca: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
Eade, D. and A. Leather, eds. Development NGOs and labor unions: Terms of engagement (W.  Hartford, CT: Kumarian, 2005).
Eade, D. and T. Vaux. Development and Humanitarianism: Practical Issues, (W. Hartford, CT: Kumarian, 2007).
Edgerton, D. The shock of the old: Technology and global history since 1900 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
Eisler, R. The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a caring economics, (San Francisco: Berrett- Koehler, 2007).
Elliot, G. Althusser: The detour of theory (Amsterdam: Brill, 2007).
Faux, J. The global class war (New York: Wiley, 2006).
Feurer, R. Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950 (Urbana and Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006).
Fish, M.S. and G. Downey. Democracy derailed in Russian: The failure of open politics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
Fisher, M.S. and G. Downey. Frontiers of capital: Ethnographic reflections on the new economy (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006).
Fuchs, C. Internet and Society: Social Theory in the Information Age. (New York: Routledge, 2008).
Glyn, A. Capitalism Unleashed: Finance, Globalization, and Welfare, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
Goodwin, N., J.A. Nelson, F. Ackerman and T. Weisskopf. Microeconomics in context (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2004).
Grief, A. Institutions and the path to the modern economy: Lessons from medieval trade (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
Harcourt, W. and A. Escobar. Women and the politics of place (W. Hartford, CT: Kumarian, 2005).
Harvey, D. A brief history of neoliberalism (New York: Oxford, 2005).
Hein, E. and A. Truger (eds.) Money, Distribution and Economic Policy: Alternatives to Orthodox Macroeconomics (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2007)
Herrera, Y. Imagined economies: The sources of Russian regionalism (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
Higgs, R. Depression, war and coldwar: Studies in political economy (New York: Oxford University Press - Independent Institute, 2006).
Hinton, W. Through a glass darkly (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2006).
Hirshland, M., ed. Savings services for the poor (W. Hartford, CT: Kumarian, 2005).
Holland, A.-C.S. The water business: Corporations versus people (London: Zed Books, 2005).
Hodgson, G.M. Economics in the shadows of Darwin and Marx: Essays on institutional and evolutionary themes (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2007). 
hooks, b. and A. Mesa-Bains. Homegrown: Engaged cultural criticism (Boston: South End Press, 2006).
Hylton, F. Evil hour in columbia (London: Verso, 2006).
Ikerd, J.E. Sustainable capitalism: A matter of common sense (W. Hartford, CT:Kumarian, 2005).
Incite! Women of Color Against Violence, ed. The revolution will not be funded: Beyond the non-profit industrial complex (Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2007).
Isbister, J. Promises Not Kept: Poverty and the Betrayal of Third World Development (W. Hartford, CT: Kumarian, 2006).
Jayaraman, S. and I. Ness, eds. The new urban immigrant labor force: Innovative models for labor organizing (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2005).
Jayatilleka, D. Fidel’s Ethics of Violence: The moral dimension of the political thought of Fidel Castro, (London: Pluto Press, 2007).
Jennings, M. Surrogates of the State: NGOs, Development and Ujamaa in Tanzania, (Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian, 2007).
Jones, G.S. An end to poverty? A historical debate (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005).
Kasperson, J. and R. Kasperson, eds. The social contours of risk. 2 vols. (London: Earthscan, 2005).
Kaul, I. and P. Conceicao, eds. The new public finance: Responding to global challenges (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006).
Klein, P.A. Economics confronts the economy (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2006).
Kohler, G.  Global Economics: An introductory course, (NY: Nova Publishers, 2007)
Korten, D. The great turning: From empire to earth community (W. Hartford, CT: Kumarian, 2006).
Laclau, E. On populist reason (London: Verso, 2005).
Lardner, J. and D.A. Smith, eds. Inequality matters: The growing economic divide in America and its poisonous consequences (New York: New Press, 2006).
Leitner, H., J. Peck and E.S. Sheppard, eds. Contesting neoliberalism: Urban frontiers (New York: Guilford, 2007).
Lewis, D. and D. Mosse, eds. Development brokers and translators: The ethnography of aid and agencies (W. Hartford, CT: Kumarian, 2006).
Lih, L.T. Lenin rediscovered: What is to be done? in context (Amsterdam: Brill, 2006).
Lynn, B.C. End of the line: The rise and coming fall of the global corporation (New York: Doubleday, 2005).
McMullen, D. Bright future: Abundance and progress in the 21st century (Bright Future Publications, 2007).
Manza, J. and C. Uggen. Locked out: Felon disenfranchisement and American democracy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006).
di Mauro, F. and R. Anderton. The External Dimension of the Euro Area:  Assessing the Linkages, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Mielants, E. The Origins of Capitalism and the "Rise of the West", (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2007).
Miller, L. R. Democratic efficiency: Inequality, representation and public policy outputs in the US and worldwide (Bloomington, IN: Author House, 2005).
Moody, K. US Labor in Trouble and Transition: The failure of reform from above, the promise of revival from below (London: Verso, 2007)
Munck, R. Globalization and social exclusion: A transformationalist perspective (W. Hartford, CT: Kumarian, 2005).
Nelson, R. R., (ed.) The limits of market organization (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2005).
Nesvetailova, A. Fragile finance: Debt, speculation and crisis in the age of global credit, (London: Palgrave, 2007).
O'Neill, K. Decentralizing the state: Elections, parties, and local powering the Andes (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
Odekon, M. The costs of economic liberation in Turkey (Lehigh University Press, 2005).
Odell, J. S., ed. Negotiating trade: Developing countries in the WTO and NAFTA (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
Olson, J. The abolition of white democracy (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005).
Oppenheimer, M., and N. Mercurio, eds. Law and economics: Alternative economic approaches to legal and regulatory issues (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2005).
Ost, D. The defeat of solidarity: Anger and politics in post-communist Europe (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005).
Panitch, L., C. Leys, A. Zuege, and M. Konings, eds. The globalization decade: A critical reader (London: Merlin, 2004).
Panizza, F., ed. Populism and the mirror of democracy (London: Verso, 2005).
Paolucci, P. Marx’s Scientific Dialectics: A methodological treatise for a new century, (Leiden: Brill, 2007).
Parenti, M. The cultural struggle (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2005).
Perelman, M. The Confiscation of American Prosperity: From right-wing extremism and economic ideology to the next great depression, (New York: Palgrave, 2007).
Polak, P. Out of Poverty, (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2008)
Porritt, J. Capitalism: As if the world matters, 2nd Edition (London: Earthscan, 2007).
Powell, B. (ed.) Making Poor Nations Rich: Entrepreneurship and the process of economic development, (Stanford, CA: The Independent Institute, 2007).
Raby, D. Democracy and Revolution: Latin America and socialism today, (London: Pluto Books 2006).  
Rodden, J. A. Hamilton’s Paradox: The promise and peril of fiscal federalism, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
Salvadori, N. (ed.) Economic Growth and Distribution: On the nature and causes of the wealth of nations, (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2007).
Sandbrook, R., M. Edelman, P. Heller, and J. Teichman. Social Democracy in the Global Periphery:  Origins, Challenges, Prospects (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Schofield, N., and I. Sened. Multiparty democracy: Elections and legislative politics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
Schram, S., and B. Caterino, eds. Making political science matter: Debating knowledge, research, and method (New York: New York University, 2006).
Schroyer, T., and T. Golodick, eds. Creating a sustainable world: Past experience, future struggle (New York: Apex Press, 2006).
Seleny, A. The political economy of state-society relations in Hungary and Poland: From communism to the European Union (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
Seidman, G. W. Beyond the Boycott: Labor rights, human rights and transnational activism, (New York: Russell Sage Foundation,  2007).
Setterfield, M., ed. Interactions in analytical political economy: Theory, policy and applications (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2005).
Shaik, A., ed. Globalization and the myths of free trade: History theory and empirical evidence (London: Routledge, 2007).
Siegal, C. The end of economic growth (Berkeley, CA: The Preservation Institute, 2006).
Slee, T. No-one makes you shop at Wal-Mart: The myth of consumer sovereignty (Toronto: Between the Lines, 2006).
Smith, A. Conquest: Sexual violence and American Indian genocide (Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2005).
Smith, C. The Cost of Privilege: Taking on the system of white supremacy and racism, (Fayetteville, NC: Camino Press, 2007).
Soederberg, S. Global governance in question: Empire, class and the new common sense in managing North-South relations (Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2006).
Stoner-Weiss, K. Resisting the state: Reform and retrenchment in post-Soviet Russia (New York:  Cambridge University Press, 2006).
Sussman, G. Global electioneering: Campaign consulting, communications and corporate financing (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006).
Tan, J. Privatization in Malaysia: Regulation, rent-seeking and policy failure, (London: Routledge, 2007).
TelIer-Elsberg, I., N. Folbre, and J. Heintz. Field guide to the U.S. economy: A compact and irreverent guide to economic life in America (revised and updated) (New York: The New Press, 2006).
Therborn, G., ed. Inequalities of the world: New theoretical frameworks, multiple empirical approaches (London: Verso, 2006).
Thompson, M. J. The Politics of Inequality:  A Political History of the Idea of Economic Inequality in America, (New York:  Columbia University Press, 2007).
Treice, M. E. On the picket line: Strategies of working-class women during the depression (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2007).
Van Lear, W. The Next American Century, (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008)
Vernengo, M., ed. Monetary integration and dollarization: No panacea (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2006).
Visano, B. S. Financial crises: Socio-economic causes and institutional context (London: Routledge, 2007).
Von Weizsacker, E. U., O. Young, and M. Finger, eds. Limits to privatization: How to avoid too much of a good thing (London: Earthscan, 2005).
Weaver, F. S. Economic literacy: Basic economics with an attitude, 2d ed. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007).
Weisskopf, T. E. Affirmative action in the United States and India: A comparative perspective (London: Routledge, 2004).
Wibbels, E. Federalism and the Market: Intergovernmental conflict and economic reform in the developing world, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
Wilson, T. D. Subsidizing capitalism: Brickmakers on the US-Mexican border (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2005).
Wintrobe, R. Rational extremism: The political economy of radicalism (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006).
Woods, N. The globalizers: The IMF, the World Bank and their borrowers (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006).
Yates, M. D. Cheap motels and a hot plate: An economist’s travelogue (New York: Monthly Review, 2007).
Zafirovski, M. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Authoritarianism, (New York: Springer, 2007)
Zatlin, J. R. The currency of socialism: Money and political change in East Germany (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Zinn, D. Welcome to the Terrordome: The pain, politics and promise of sports, (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2007)