"Thought provoking and fresh - this book challenges how we think about economics.”
Gillian Tett, Financial Times

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Western capitalism is in crisis.

2016

Level: advanced

Rethinking Capitalism

Michael Jacobs, Mariana Mazzucato

Wiley

This thoroughly revised and updated second edition provides a comprehensive guide to Post Keynesian methodology, theory and policy prescriptions. The Companion reflects the challenges posed by the global financial crisis that began in 2008 and by the consolidation of the New Neoclassical Synthesis in macroeconomic theory.

2012

Level: advanced

The Elgar Companion to Post Keynesian Economics

J. E. King

Edward Elgar

The Learning Economy and the Economics of Hope' brings together the most important contributions by an expert on policies, management and economics of innovation and knowledge. It offers original insights in processes of innovation and learning and it draws implications for economic theory and public policy. It introduces the reader to important concepts such as innovation systems and the learning economy.

2016

Level: advanced

The Learning Economy and the Economics of Hope

Bengt-Åke Lundvall

Anthem Press

Following an unprecedented economic boom fed by foreign investment, the Russian Revolution triggered the worst sovereign default in history. Bankers and Bolsheviks tells the dramatic story of this boom and bust, chronicling the forgotten experiences of leading financiers of the age.

2018

Level: advanced

Bankers and Bolsheviks

Hassan Malik

Princeton University Press

Foundations of Economics breathes life into the discipline by linking key economic concepts with wider debates and issues. By bringing to light delightful mind-teasers, philosophical questions and intriguing politics in mainstream economics, it promises to enliven an otherwise dry course whilst inspiring students to do well.

1998

Level: beginner

Foundations of Economics

Yanis Varoufakis

Psychology Press

The world has changed dramatically in recent years and so has the field of economics, but many introductory economics textbooks have remained stuck in the past. This book provides a new beginning for the study of macroeconomics, fundamentally international in its approach and emphasizing current debates and research trends.

2014

Level: advanced

Macroeconomics

Dorman, Peter

Springer-Verlag

Since their first emergence in the work of Paul David thirty years ago, the dual issues of Path Dependence and Lock-In have become critically important subjects in the fields of economics, sociology, and business strategy.

2014

Level: advanced

Path Dependence and Lock-In

Liebowitz, Stan J ; Margolis, Stephen E

Edward Elgar Publishing

Why do we think that sovereign debt must be repaid--even after a major regime change--in order to maintain country creditworthiness? In a fascinating and highly original book, Odette Lienau argues that this conventional wisdom is overly simplistic and in some respects entirely wrong.

2014

Level: beginner

Rethinking Sovereign Debt

Lienau, Odette

Harvard University Press

Foreign exploitation of economic crises in the developing world has been a central claim of neoliberal critics. This important and recurring international theme is the subject of closer scrutiny in this new collection, where contributors offer competing interpretations of the interaction between international and domestic forces after crises.

2008

Level: advanced

Power and Politics after Financial Crises

Robertson, Justin

Palgrave Macmillan

Popular anger against the financial system has never been higher, yet the practical workings of the system remain opaque to many people. The Heretic's Guide to Global Finance aims to bridge the gap between protest slogans and practical proposals for reform.

2013

Level: advanced

The Heretics Guide to Global Finance

Brett Scott

Pluto Press

The 2007–08 credit crisis and the long recession that followed brutally exposed the economic and social costs of financialization. Understanding what lay behind these events, the rise of “fictitious capital” and its opaque logic, is crucial to grasping the social and political conditions under which we live. Yet, for most people, the operations of the financial system remain shrouded in mystery.

2017

Level: advanced

Fictitious Capital

Cedric Durand

Verso

This fresh and unique textbook provides students and general readers with an introduction to economics from a new and much needed perspective, characterised by its uniquely pluralist, sustainable, progressive and global approach. Unlike traditional textbooks, Introducing a New Economics contains the key concepts of pluralism, sustainability and justice. It provides students with the central questions covered by economics including resources, work, employment, poverty, inequality, power, capital, markets, money, debt and value.

2015

Level: beginner

Introducing a New Economics

Jack Reardon, Maria Alejandra Caporale Madi, and Molly Scott Cato

Pluto Press

Those who control the world’s commanding economic heights, buttressed by the theories of mainstream economists, presume that capitalism is a self-contained and self-generating system.

2021

Level: beginner

Capital and Imperialism

Utsa Patnaik, Prabhat Patnaik

NYU Press

From Marketisation to Armed Conflict Since 1991 nominally independent Ukraine has been in turmoil with the Orange Revolution and the Maidan protests marking its most critical moments Now its borders are threatened and the civil unrest and armed conflict continue to destabilise the country In order to understand these dramatic …

2018

Level: advanced

Ukraine and the Empire of Capital

Yuliya Yurchenko

Pluto Press

"Leveraged" provides an authoritative guide to the new economics of our crisis-filled century with a focus on financial crises and financial economics.

2022

Level: expert

Leveraged

Moritz Schularick

University of Chicago Press