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The Review of Radical Political Economics welcomes and actively recruits reviews of significant books that are of interest to RRPE readers. Contributors are invited to prepare reviews of books on the following list, which we have received from publishers interested in having reviews appear in the RRPE. Contributors are also welcomed and encouraged to prepare reviews of significant books not on this list but that are of interest to RRPE readers.
RRPE publishes three different types of reviews:
1. Reviews of individual books, both books on the following list which have been received from publishers, as well as books not on this list that are related to radical political economics. These reviews should be 1200-1500 words in length.
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List of Books
(updated Winter 2012)
Aligica, Paul Dragos and Peter J. Boettke, (Eds.), Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development: The Bloomington School, (London: Routledge, 2009).
Ash, Amin (Ed.), The Social Economy, (London: Zed Books, 2009).
Balakrishnan, Radhika, Diane Elson and Raj Patel, Rethinking Macro Economic Strategies from a Human Rights Perspective: Why MES with human rights II?, (New York: Marymount Manhattan College, 2009).
Barra, Ximena de la (Ed.), Neoliberalism’s Fractured Showcase: Another Chile is possible, (Leiden: Brill, 2011).
Bayliss, Kate, Ben Fine and Elisa VanWaeyenberge, The Political Economy of Development: The World Bank, neoliberalism, and development research,(London: Pluto Press, 2011).
Bebbington, Anthony, Social Conflict, Economic Development and Extractive Industry: Evidence from South America, (London: Routledge, 2011).
Bedford, Kate, Developing Partnerships: Gender, Sexuality, and the Reformed World Bank, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009).
Bellofiore, Riccardo and Roberto Fineschi (Eds.), Re-reading Marx: New perspective after the Critical Edition,(NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
Best, Beverley, Marx and the Dynamic of the Capital Formation: An Aesthetics of Political Economy, (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
Birch, Kean and Vlad Mykhnenko (Eds.), The Rise and Fall of Neoliberalism: The Collapse of an Economic Order?, (London: Zed Books,2010).
Blaney, David L. and Naeem Inayatullah, Savage Economics: Wealth, poverty and the temporal walls of capitalism, (London: Routledge,2010).
Bockman, Johanna, Markets in the Name of Socialism: The left-wing origins of neoliberalism, (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011).
Bracking, Sarah, Money and Power: Great predators in the political economy of development,(London: Pluto Books, 2009).
Brancaccio, Emiliano and Giuseppe Fontana, (Eds.), The Global Economic Crisis: New perspectives on the critique of economic theory and policy, (London: Routledge, 2011).
Brass Tom,Labour Regime Change in the Twenty-First Century, (Leiden: Brill, 2011).
Brenner, Aaron, Robert Brenner, and Cal Winslow (Eds.), Rebel, Rank and File, (London: Verso Books, 2011).
Brennan, Geoffrey and Giuseppe Eusepi (Eds.), The Economics of Ethics and the Ethics of Economics: Values, Markets and the State, (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2010).
Bolender, Keith, Voices From The Other Side: An oral history of terrorism against Cuba, (London: Pluto Press, 2010).
Bowles, Samuel and Herbert Gintis, A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011)
Bronk, Richard, The Romantic Economist: Imagination in economics, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Budd, John, The Thought of Work, (Ithaca, NY: ILR, Cornell University Press, 2011).
Camic, Charles, Hodgson, Geoffrey M. (Eds.), Essential Writings of Thorstein Veblen,(London: Routledge, 2011).
Carchedi, Guglielmo, Behind the Crisis: Marx's Dialectics of Value and Knowledge,(Leiden: Brill, 2011).
Cassano, Graham (Ed.), Class Struggle on the Homefront: Work, Conflict, and Exploitation in the Household, (London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2010).
Chan, Anita (Ed.), Walmart in China, (Ithaca, NY: ILR Press of Cornell University, 2011).
Chandler, Susan and Jill B. Jones, Casino Women: Courage in unexpected places,(Ithaca, NY: ILR, Cornell University Press, 2011).
Chiarella, Carl, Peter Flaschel, Willi Semler, Reconstructing Keynesian Macroeconomics,Vol. 1, (London: Routledge, 2012).
Clavel, Pierre, Activistsin City Hall: The Progressive Response to the Reagan Era in Boston and Chicago, (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010).
Couret, Manuel. Economics Versus Human Rights, (London: Routledge, 2009).
Cypher, James M and Raúl Delgado Wise, Mexico’s Economic Dilemma: The development failure of neoliberalism, (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010).
Cypher, James M and James L. Dietz (Eds.), The Process of Economic Development, (London: Routledge, 2009 3rd Edition).
Dale, Gareth, First the Transition, Then the Crash: Eastern Europe in the 2000s, (London: Pluto Books, 2011).
Deb, Debal, Beyond Developmentality: Constructing inclusive freedom and sustainability,(London: Earthscan, 2009) .
DeMartino, George, The Economists’ Oath: On the Need for and Content of Professional Economic Ethics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).
Deneault, Alain, Offshore: Tax Havens and the Rule of Global Crime, (New York: The New Press, 2011).
Doyran, Mine Aysen, Financial Crisis Management and the Pursuit of Power- American Pre-eminence and the Credit Crunch , (London: Ashgate, 2011).
Dugger, William M. and James T. Peach (Eds.), Economic Abundance: An Introduction, (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2009).
Duménil, Gerard and Dominique Lévy, The Crisis of Neoliberalism, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010).
Dutt, Amitava Krishna and Benjamin Radcliff., Happiness, Economics, and Politics: Towards a multi-disciplinary approach, (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2009).
Early, Steve, Embedded With Organized Labor: Journalistic reflections on the class war at home,(NY: Monthly Review, 2009).
Edwards, Sally, Beyond Child’s Play: Sustainable product design in the global doll-making industry,(Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing Company, 2009).
Ege, Ragip and Herrade Igersheim (Eds.), Freedom and Happiness in Economic Thought and Philosophy: From Clash to Reconciliation, (London: Routledge, 2011).
Eisenstein, Hester, Feminism Seduced: How Global Elites Use Women’s Labor and Ideas to Exploit the World, (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2009).
Elliot, Gregory, Hobsbawm: History and politics,(London: Pluto books, 2010).
Elsner, Wolfram and Hardy Hanappi (Eds.), Varieties of Capitalism and New Institutional Deals: Regulation, Welfare and the New Economy, (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2009).
Engelskirchen, Howard, Capital as a Social Kind: Definitions and Transformations in the Critique of Political Economy (London: Routledge, 2010).
Eriksson, Ralf and Jan Otto Andersson, Elements of Ecological Economics, (London: Routledge, 2010).
Everard, Mark, Common Ground: The sharing of land and landscapes for sustainability, (London: Zed Books, 2011).
Fernando, Jude L., The Political Economy of NGOs: State formation in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, (London: Pluto Press, 2011).
Figart, Deborah and Jon Marangos (Eds.), Living Standards and Social Well-Being, (London: Routledge 2010).
Fine, Ben and Dimitris Milonakis, From economics imperialism to Freakonomics: The shifting boundaries between economics and other social sciences, (London: Routledge 2009).
Fontana, Giuseppe. Money, Uncertainty and Time, (London: Routledge, 2009).
Forrant, Robert, Metal Fatigue: American Bosch and the demise of metalworking in the Connecticut River Valley. (Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing, 2009).
Gallagher, Kevin P. and Daniel Chudnovsky, Rethinking Foreign Investment for Development: Lessons from the Americas, (NY: Anthem Press, 2009).
Gallagher, Kevin P. and Roberto Porzecanski, Climbing Up the Technology Ladder? High-Technology Exports in China and Latin America, (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010).
Gill, Stephen (Ed.), Global Crises and the Crisis of Global Leadership, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011).
Giampietro, Mario, Kozo Mayumi, Alevgul H. Sorman, The Metabolic Pattern of Societies: Where economists fall short, (London: Routledge, 2012).
Goldberg, Gertrude Schaffner (Ed.), Poor Women in Rich Countries: The Feminization of Poverty Over the Life Course, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).
Goldsmith William W. and Edward J. Blakely, Separate Societies: Poverty and Inequality in U.S. Cities, (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2010).
Gowdy, John M. Microeconomic Theory: Old and new, (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010).
Haglund, LaDawn, Limiting Resources: Market-Led Reform and the Transformation of Public Goods , (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2010).
Hanlon, Joseph, Armando Barrientos and David Hulme, Just Give Money to the Poor: The development revolution from the global south, (Williamsburg, MA.: Kumarian Books,2010).
Harris, Jonathan M. and Neva R. Goodwin. Twenty-First Century Macroeconomics: Responding to the climate challenge, (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2009).
Harcourt, Wendy, Body Politics in Development: Critical debates in gender and development,(London: Zed Books, 2009).
Hart, Keith, Jean-Louis Laville, and Antonio David Cattani,The Human Economy, (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2010).
Harvey, David, A Companion to Marx’s Capital, (London: Verso, 2010).
Hawley, James P., Shyam J. Kamath, and Andrew T. Williams, (Eds.) Corporate Governance Failures: The Role of Institutional Investors in the Global Financial Crisis, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011).
Heinrich, Carolyn and John K. Scholz (Eds.), Making the work-based safety net work better,(NY: Russell Sage, 2009).
Heinrich, Michael, An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital, (NY: Monthly Review, 2011).
Heller, Henry, The Birth of Capitalism: A 21st Century Perspective, (London: Pluto Press,2011).
Hickey, Sam and Diana Mitlin, Rights-Based Approaches to Development: Exploring the Potential and Pitfalls, (Williamsburg, MA.: Kumarian Books, 2009).
Hill, Rod and Tony Myatt, The Economics Anti-Textbook: A Critical Thinker’s Guide to Microeconomics, (London: Zed Books, 2010).
Hollander, Samuel, Friedrich Engels and Marxian Political Economy, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011).
Holloway, John, Crack Capitalism, (NY: Pluto Press, 2010).
Jameson, Frederic, Representing Capital,(London: Verso Books, 2011).
Jarsulic, Marc, Anatomy of a Financial Crisis: A Real Estate Bubble, Runaway Credit Markets, and Regulatory Failure, (NY: Palgrave,2010).
Jespersen Jesper, Macroeconomic Methodology: A Post-Keynesian Perspective, (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar,2009).
Kahn, Shahrukh Rafi and Jens Christensen (Eds.), Towards New Developmentalism: Market as means rather than master, (London: Routledge, 2010)
Kanth, Rajani Kannepalli, The Challenge of Eurocentrism: Global perspectives, policy and prospects, (London: Palgrave, 2009).
Kates, Steven, Macroeconomic Theory and its Failings: alternative perspectives on the global financial crisis, (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2010).
Katzner, Donald W., At the Edge of Camelot: Debating economics in turbulent times,(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).
Keen, Steve, Debunking Economics: The naked emperor dethroned? 2nd Ed., (NY: Zed Books,2011).
Korten, David, Agenda for a New Economy: From phantom wealth to real wealth, (San Francisco: Berrett Koehler, 2009).
Laibman, David, Political Economy After Economics: Scientific Method and Radical Imagination, (London: Routledge,2011).
LaJeunesse, Robert, Work Time Regulation as Sustainable Full Employment Strategy,(London: Routledge, 2009).
Lambie, George, The Cuban Revolution in the 21st Century, (London: Pluto Press,2010).
Lee, Frederick, A History of Heterodox Economics: Challenging the mainstream in the twentieth century, (N.Y.: Routledge, 2009).
Lee, Frederic S. and Jon Bekken (Eds.), Radical Economics and Labor: Essays inspired by the IWW Centennial, (London: Routledge, 2009).
Lefebvre, Henri, State, Space, World: Selected Essays, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009)
Lebowitz, Michael A., The Socialist Alternative: Real Human Development, (NY: Monthly Review Press, 2010).
Levenstein, Charles (Ed.), At The Point Of Production: The social analysis of Occupational and Environmental Health (Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing, 2009).
Lilley, Sasha, (Ed.), Capital and its Discontents: Conversations with radical thinkers in a time of tumult, (Oakland, CA: PM Press and Merlin, 2011).
Liodakis, George, Totalitarian Capitalism and Beyond, (London: Ashgate, 2010).
MacEwan, Arthur and John A. Miller, Economic Collapse, Economic Change: Getting to the Roots of the Crisis, (Armonk, NY: ME Sharpe, 2011).
Maeckelbergh, Marianne, The Will of the Many: How the alterglobalisation movement is changing the face of democracy, (London: Pluto Books, 2009).
Magdoff, Fred and Michael D. Yates., The ABC of the Economic Crisis: What working people need to know, (New York, Monthly Review Press, 2009).
Markkanen, Pia, Shoes, Glues and Homework: Dangerous work in the global footwear industry,(Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing Company, 2009).
Martinez, Mark A., The Myth of the Free Market: The role of the state in a capitalist economy, (Williamsburg, MA : Kumarian Press, 2009).
Mason, Paul, Live Working or Die Fighting: How the working class went global, (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2010).
McDermott, John, F.M., Restoring Democracy to America: How to free markets and politics from the corporate culture of business and government, (University Park: Penn State University Press, 2010).
McDonough, Terrence, Michael Reich, and David M. Kotz, (Eds.), Contemporary Capitalism and Its Crises: Social structure of accumulation theory for the 21st century, (NY: Cambridge University Press, 2010).
McNally, David, Monsters of the Market. (Leiden: Brill, 2011)
Mehta, Lyla, The Limits to Scarcity, (London: Earthscan, 2010).
Mellor, Mary, The Future of Money From Financial Crisis to Public Resource, (London: Pluto Books, 2010).
Merrifield, Andy, Magical Marxism: Subversive politics and the imagination, (London: Pluto Books, 2011).
Mészaros, István, Social Structure and Forms of Consciousness: Vol 1, The social determination of method,(NY, Monthly Review Press, 2010).
Mészaros, István. The Structural Crisis of Capital, (NY, Monthly Review Press, 2010).
Mészáros, István, The Challenge and Burden of Historical Time: Socialism in the Twenty-First Century,(NY: Monthly Review, 2009).
Milions, John and Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos, Rethinking Imperialism: a study of capitalist rule, (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
Mishel, Lawrence, Jared Bernstein, and Heidi Shierholz, The State of Working American 2008-2009, (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press,2009).
Morgan, Jamie, Private Equity Finance: Rise and repercussions, (NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
Mulder, Catherine P., Unions and Class Transformation: The case of the Broadway musicians, (London: Routledge, 2009).
Napoleoni, Loretta, Maonomics: Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We Do, (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2011).
Ness, Immanuel, Guest Workers and Resistance to U.S. Corporate Despotism, (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2011).
Ness, Immanuel and Dario Azzellini (Eds.), Ours to Master and to Own: Worker Control: From the Commune to the Present, (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2011).
O'Flynn, Michael, Profitable Ideas: The Ideology of the Individual in Capitalist Development, (Leiden: Brill, 2011).
Panayotakis, Costas, Remaking Scarcity: From capitalist inefficiency to economic democracy,(London: Pluto Press, 2011
Peet, Richard, Unholy Trinity: The IMF, World Bank and WTO, 2ndEd. (London: Zed Books, 2009).
Pereira, Luiz Carlos Bresser, Globalization and Competition: Why some emergent countries succeed while others fall behind, (New York: Cambridge University Press,2009).
Perelman, Michael, The Invisible Handcuffs of Capitalism: How market tyranny stifles the economy by stunting workers, (NY: Monthly Review Press, 2011).
Pleyers, Geoffrey, Alter-globalization: How actors contest globalization, (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2010).
Pollard, Jane, Cheryl McEwan and Alex Hughes (Eds.), Postcolonial Economics, (London: Zed,2011).
Post, Charles, The American Road to Capitalism: Studies in class structure, economic development and political conflict, 1620-1877, (Leiden: Brill 2011).
Pressman, Steve, (Ed.), The Legacy of John Kenneth Galbraith ,(London: Routledge: 2011).
Puttaswamaiah, K. (Ed.), Milton Friedman: Nobel Monetary Economist, a review of his theories and policies, (Enfield, NH: Isle Publishing Company, 2009).
Quigley, Diane, Amy Lowman, Steve Wing (Eds.), Tortured Science: Health studies, ethics and nuclear weapons in the United States,(Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing, 2011)
Raman, K. Ravi and Ronnie D. Lipschutz (Eds.) Corporate Social Responsibility: Comparative critiques, (NY: Palgrave Macmillan,2010).
Reiss, Michael, What Went Wrong with Economics: The flawed assumptions that led economists astray, (UK: Goldhurst Press,2011).
Rich, Bruce, To Uphold the World: A call for a new global ethic from ancient India,(Boston: Beacon Press, 2009).
Rist, Gilbert, The Delusions of Economics: The misguided certainties of a hazardous science, (London: Zed Books, 2011).
Ross, Andrew, Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and labor in precarious times, (NY: NYU Press, 2009).
Ryan, Órla, Chocolate Nations: Living and dying for cocoa in West Africa, (London: Zed Books,2011).
Saad-Filho, Alfredo and Galip L. Yalman., Economic Transition to Neoliberalism in Middle-income Countries: Policy dilemmas, economic crises forms of resistance, (London: Routledge, 2010).
Salamon, Lester M., Rethinking Corporate Social Engagement: Lessons from Latin America, (Sterling, VA: Kumarian Press, 2010).
Sardoni, Claudio, Unemployment, Recession and Effective Demand: The Contributions of Marx, Keynes and Kalecki, (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2011).
Saros, Daniel E., Labor, Industry, and Regulation during the Progressive Era, (London: Routledge, 2009).
Schutz, Eric, Inequality and Power: the Economics of Class, (London: Routledge, 2011).
Secondi, Giorgio (Ed.), The Development Economics Reader, (London: Routledge, 2009).
Sherman, Howard J., The Roller Coaster Economy: Financial Crisis, Great Recession, and the Public Option, (Armonk, NY: ME Sharpe, 2009).
Silverman, Robert Mark and Kelly L. Patterson (eds), Fair and Affordable Housing in the U.S., (Leiden: Brill, 2011)
Slatin, Craig. Environmental Unions: Labor and the superfund, (Amityville, N.Y.: Baywood Publishing, 2009).
Standing, Guy, Work after Globalization, (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2010).
Stanfield, James Ronald and Jacqueline Bloom Stanfield, John Kenneth Galbraith,(NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
Stout, Jeffrey, Blessed are the Organized¸(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011).
Storm, Servass and C.W.M. Naastepad, Macroeconomics Beyond the NAIRU,(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011).
Surin, Kenneth, Freedom Not Yet: Liberation and the next world order, (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2009).
Tavasci, Daniela and Jan Toporowski (Eds), Minsky, Crisis and Development, (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
Thomas, Peter, Gramscian Moment, (Leiden: Brill 2009).
Todorova, Zdravka, Money and Households in a Capitalist Economy, (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2009).
Tully, John, The Devil’s Milk: A social history of rubber, (NY: Monthly Review Press, 2011).
Vail, Mark I., Recasting Welfare Capitalism Economic Adjustment in Contemporary France and Germany, (Philadelphia: Temple University Press,2009).
Varoufakis, Yanis, The Global Minotaur: America, the true origins of the financial crisis and the future of the world economy, (London: Zed Books, 2011).
Veltmeyer, Henry (Ed.), Imperialism, Crisis and Class Struggle, (Leiden: Brill, 2011).
Walberg, Eric, Postmodern Imperialism: Geopolitics and the great games, (Atlanta, GA: Clarity Pres, 2011).
Wallman, Sandra, The Capability of Places: Methods for Modeling Community Response to Intrusion and Change , (London: Pluto Books, 2011).
Weeks, John, Capital, Exploitation and Economic Crisis, (London: Routledge, 2011).
Westra, Laura (Ed.), Globalization, Violence and World Governance, (Leiden: Brill, 2011).
Widdows, Heather and Nicola J. Smith, (Eds.), Global Social Justice, (London: Routledge, 2011)
Wiegersma, Nan, The Women Gender and Development Reader, 2nd Ed.(London: Zed, 2011.)
Wilson, Tamar Diana, Women’s Migration Networks in Mexico and Beyond, (Albuquerque NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2009).
Wolf, Edward, The Transformation of the American Pension System: Was it beneficial for workers?,(Kalamazoo, MI: WE Upjohn Institute, 2011).
Wolff, Richard D., Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What to do about it, (Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press, 2009).
Zamagni, Stefano and Vera Zamagni, Cooperative Enterprise: Facing the challenge of globalization, (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2010).
Zarembka,Paul (Ed.), The National Question and the Question of Crisis, (London: Emerald, 2010).
Zedalis, Rex J., The Legal Dimensions of Oil and Gas in Iraq: Current reality and future prospects,(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).