A remarkable and insightful tribute into the works of late Malawian development economist, Professor Thandika Mkandawire. Must read for anyone looking to broaden their scope of understanding development as it relates to the African continent. Level: debutante Thandika Mkandawire - A Giant of African Economic Development Dr. Grieve Chelwa Miami Institute For The Social Sciences Recent events such as the Black Lives Matter protests the the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis US and the toppling of the statue of Edward Colston in Bristol UK have exposed existing racism colonialism and sexism in our society and in Economics While calls to improve diversity in Economics … 2021 Level: debutante Decolonising Economics in Practice Dr. Danielle Guizzo, Dr. Devika Dutt, Dr. Surbhi Kesar, Dr. Amir Lebdioui Exploring Economics In this podcast, Nalia Kabeer talks about her work, criticising the way in which Randomized Control Trials (RCTs) is adopted as a sole form of impact assessment. At the beginning of the talk, she briefly describes The Ultra Poor Project (the context of her study), RCTs and its critiques (such as lack of acknowledgement of human agency, heterogeneity, and social context); also, the problem that most RCTs practitioners do not allow for qualitative research conducted in an integrated way as it might cause their studies “being contaminated.” 2019 Level: debutante Naila Kabeer on Why Randomized Controlled Trials need to include Human Agency Naila Kabeer (Interviewed by Duncan Green) Poverty to Power This panel is about discussing the international development discipline from a critical perspective, exploring how the current practice entangles with Eurocentric/neo-colonial thoughts and how can we move beyond them. 2018 Level: adelantado Decolonise Development: Thoughts and Theories Dr Sian Lazar, Professor Cheryl McEwan, Dr. Hazel Gray Cambridge Society For Economic Pluralism Planetary Mine rethinks the politics and territoriality of resource extraction, especially as the mining industry becomes reorganized in the form of logistical networks, and East Asian economies emerge as the new pivot of the capitalist world-system. 2020 Level: adelantado Planetary Mine Martín Arboleda Verso Books This book analyzes the transition of chocolate from an exotic curiosity to an Atlantic commodity. It shows how local, inter-regional, and Atlantic markets interacted with one another and with imperial political economies. It explains how these interactions, intertwined with the resilience of local artisanal production, promoted the partial democratization of chocolate consumption as well as economic growth. 2020 Level: adelantado Empire, Political Economy, and the Diffusion of Chocolate in the Atlantic World Irene Fattacciu Routledge Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. In From Here to Equality, William Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen confront these injustices head-on and make the most comprehensive case to date for economic reparations for U.S. descendants of slavery. 2020 Level: adelantado From Here to Equality William A. Darity Jr., A. Kirsten Mullen The University of North Carolina Press Over the last decade, the world's largest corporations - from The Coca Cola Company to Amazon, Apple to Unilever - have taken up the cause of combatting modern slavery. Yet, by most measures, across many sectors and regions, severe labour exploitation continues to soar. Corporate social responsibility is not working. Why? 2020 Level: debutante Combatting Modern Slavery Genevieve LeBaron Polity Press In the last half century, economics has taken over from anthropology the role of drawing the powerful conceptual worldviews that organize knowledge and inform policy in both domestic and international contexts. Until now however, the colonial roots of economic theory have remained relatively unstudied. This book changes that. 2004 Level: adelantado Postcolonialism Meets Economics S. Charusheela, Eiman O. Zein-Elabdin Psychology Press Nature and communities in the global south is being overwhelmed at a shocking rate. In many places this is due to ventures such as large-scale open-pit mining, oil extraction in tropical areas, and the spread of monocultures. These and other such forms of natural resource appropriation are usually known as extractivisms. 2021 Level: debutante Extractivisms Eduardo Gudynas Fernwood Publishing The rise of capitalism to global dominance is still largely associated – by both laypeople and Marxist historians – with the industrial capitalism that made its decisive breakthrough in 18th century Britain. 2020 Level: adelantado A Brief History of Commercial Capitalism Jairus Banaji Haymarket Books With a focus on Chile, Pinochet’s Economic Accomplices: An Unequal Country byForce uses theoretical arguments and empirical studies to argue that focusing onthe behavior of economic actors of the dictatorship is crucial to achieve basic objectivesin terms of justice, memory, reparation, and non-repetition measures. 2021 Level: adelantado Pinochet's Economic Accomplices Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky; Karinna Fernández Neira; Sebastián Smart Rowman & Littlefield Adam Smith and Karl Marx recognized that the best way to understand the economy is to study the most advanced practice of production. Today that practice is no longer conventional manufacturing: it is the radically innovative vanguard known as the knowledge economy. 2019 Level: debutante The Knowledge Economy Roberto Mangabeira Unger Verso Books In this book, the authors, Cinzia Aruzza, Tithi Bhattcahrya, and Nancy Fraser, move away from the myopic view of feminism for a select few to focus on a universal idea of feminism. 2019 Level: debutante Feminism for the 99 Percent Cinzia Arruzza, Nancy Fraser, Tithi Bhattacharya Verso Books In this book, the author, Intan Suwandi, engages with the question of imperialism through the specific channel of Global Value Chains. 2019 Level: debutante Value Chains Intan Suwandi NYU Press This book provides important insights into agrarian history and the economic and cultural meanings associated with land. 2019 Level: debutante The Cultural Economy of Land Suhita Sinha Roy Tulika Books This edited volume explores how dependency theories can be adapted and applied to understand limits and possibilities for development in Latin America and Europe It explores core periphery relations across different sets of countries specific mechanisms of dependency as well as the role of race and gender in dependency analysis … 2021 Level: adelantado Dependent Capitalisms in Contemporary Latin America and Europe Aldo Madariaga, Stefano Palestini Springer Nature In this new book Smith returns to Solow s classic productivity paradox which essentially states that we can see automation everywhere like the spheres of leisure sociality and politics but not in the productivity statistics He examines why labor saving automation in the service age in the Global North has … 2020 Level: adelantado Smart Machines and Service Work Jason E. Smith Reaktion Books This edited volume put together by Jimi Adesina based on the proceedings of the Social Policy in African Conference in 2017 provides an overview of social policy in varied country contexts and fields especially in light of decades of the reduction in size and hollowing out of the content of … 2021 Level: adelantado Social Policy in the African Context Jimi O. Adesina African Books Collective Christopher Hayes examines the causes and consequences of the uprisings, from the city’s history of racial segregation in education, housing, and employment to the ways in which the police both neglected and exploited Black neighborhoods. 2021 Level: adelantado The Harlem Uprising Christopher Hayes Columbia University Press In this book, Kalyan Sanyal reviews the traditional notion of capitalism and propounds an original theory of capitalist development in the post-colonial context. In order to substantiate his theory, concepts such as primitive accumulation, governmentality and post-colonial capitalist formation are discussed in detail. 2013 Level: debutante Rethinking Capitalist Development Kalyan Sanyal Routledge In this book, distinguished economist Edith Kuiper shows us that the history of economic thought is just that, a his-story, by telling the herstory of economic thought from the perspective of women economic writers and economists. Although some of these women were well known in their time, they were excluded from most of academic economics, and, over the past centuries, their work has been neglected, forgotten, and thus become invisible. 2022 Level: debutante A Herstory of Economics Edith Kuiper Wiley In this volume, Katz offers a detailed summary of the foundations, evolutions and approaches of Dependency Theory in Latin America, focusing on the regional interpretations of Marxism, Developmentalism and World-Systems Theory. 2022 Level: adelantado Dependency Theory After Fifty Years Claudio Katz Brill This book is an original, systematic, and radical attempt at decolonizing critical theory. Drawing on linguistic concepts from 16 languages from Asia, Africa, the Arab world, and South America, the essays in the volume explore the entailments of words while discussing their conceptual implications for the humanities and the social sciences everywhere. 2022 Level: debutante Changing Theory Dilip M. Menon Routledge To grasp sex in all its complexity, including its relationship to gender, class, race and power, Srinivasan argues that we need to move beyond the simplistic views of consent in the form of yes-no, to rather consider the more complex question of wanted-unwanted. 2021 Level: debutante The Right to Sex Amia Srinivasan Farrar, Straus and Giroux In this searing and insightful critique, Adrienne Buller examines the fatal biases that have shaped the response of our governing institutions to climate and environmental breakdown, and asks: are the 'solutions' being proposed really solutions? Tracing the intricate connections between financial power, economic injustice and ecological crisis, she exposes the myopic economism and market-centric thinking presently undermining a future where all life can flourish. 2022 Level: debutante The Value of a Whale Adrienne Buller Manchester University Press The Price of Slavery analyzes Marx's critique of capitalist slavery and its implications for the Caribbean thought of Toussaint Louverture, Henry Christophe, C. L. R. James, Aimé Césaire, Jacques Stephen Alexis, and Suzanne Césaire. Nick Nesbitt assesses the limitations of the literature on capitalism and slavery since Eric Williams in light of Marx's key concept of the social forms of labor, wealth, and value. 2022 Level: debutante The Price of Slavery Nick Nesbitt University of Virginia Press In analyzing the global competition between Chinese and Indian tea, Andrew B. Liu challenges past economic histories premised on the technical “divergence” between the West and the Rest, arguing instead that seemingly traditional technologies and practices were central to modern capital accumulation across Asia. 2020 Level: adelantado Tea War Andrew B. Liu Yale University Press How do Airbnb and short-term rentals affect housing and communities? Locating the origins and success of Airbnb in the conditions wrought by the 2008 financial crisis, the authors bring together a diverse body of literature and construct case studies of cities in the US, Australia and Germany to examine the struggles of local authorities to protect their housing and neighborhoods from the increasing professionalization and commercialization of Airbnb. 2020 Level: debutante Airbnb, Short-term Rentals and the Future of Housing Lily M. Hoffman, Barbara Schmitter Heisler Taylor & Francis Group The first book to bring together the key writings and speeches of civil rights activist Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander--the first Black American economist In 1921, Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander became the first Black American to gain a Ph.D. degree in economics. Unable to find employment as an economist because of discrimination, Alexander became a lawyer so that she could press for equal rights for African Americans. 2021 Level: adelantado Democracy, Race, and Justice Sadie T. M. Alexander Yale University Press This lecture offers a general and introductory overview of the theory of racial capitalism, focusing on the origins of racial capitalism and some of the debates it has generated. 2021 Level: debutante Introduction to Racial Capitalism Alana Lentin n.a. This is an important contribution both to advancing theoretical and empirical understandings of African monetary sovereignty and to putting problems and possibilities relating to African monetary sovereignty on the political agenda This is of utmost importance given that these issues have largely not received much attention in contemporary discussions of … 2021 Level: adelantado Economic and Monetary Sovereignty in 21st Century Africa Maha Ben Gadha, Fadhel Kaboub, Kai Koddenbrock, Ines Mahmoud, Ndongo Samba Sylla Pluto Press