Michael Eaude, Triumph at Midnight of the Century: A Critical Biography of Arturo Barea (Sussex Academic Press, 2009), £45 “A lump of grey mass, the size of a child’s fist, was flattened out against the glass pane and kept on… Continue Reading
Heidi Armbruster and Anna Laerke (eds), Taking Sides: Ethics, Politics and Fieldwork in Anthropology (Berghahn Books, 2008), £45 I enjoyed reading this collection—in part because it reminded me of when I was at the London School of Economics as a… Continue Reading
Stephen Shapiro, How to Read Marx’s Capital (Pluto Press, 2008), £12.99 The left has good reason to return to Capital, given the unrest gripping economic wisdom. Images of Nicolas Sarkozy thumbing the pages of Le Capital titillated the Economist and,… Continue Reading
Barry Eichengreen, Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System (second edition) (Princeton, 2008), £19.95 Occasionally mainstream economists manage to produce works of genuine use. This is one of them. The eruption of the credit crunch and then the… Continue Reading
Jeanne Flavin, Our Bodies, Our Crimes (New York University, 2009), £30.95 “When she said, ‘rights terminated’, I just felt lost… Those are my kids…you snatch them, that was my world. You just took that. What I’m a fight for? What… Continue Reading
Samuel Guicheteau, La Révolution des Ouvriers Nantais: Mutation Economique, Identité Sociale et Dynamique Révolutionnaire (1740_1815) (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2008), €19 A revisionist school, premised on the notion that the French Revolution was not bourgeois and capitalist, has dominated the… Continue Reading
Kevin Doogan, New Capitalism? The Transformation of Work (Polity, 2009), £16.99 There is a myth that changes in capitalism have made workers virtually powerless. Many commentators and academics suggest that permanent jobs are a thing of the past and that… Continue Reading
Giovanni Arrighi, Adam Smith in Beijing (Verso, 2007), £14.99 Translation by Owen Miller The following review was written by Jeong Seong-jin, professor of economics at Gyeongsang National University, South Korea. Professor Jeong is the author of a number of books… Continue Reading
Richard Seymour, The Liberal Defence of Murder (Verso, 2008), £16.99 As I write this review, Gaza lies in ruins after the Israeli government’s most recent exercise in collective punishment. This latest atrocity has excited massive opposition in Britain (not least… Continue Reading
Ethan Pollock, Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars (Princeton, 2009), £17.95 The post-war period was a time of rapid reconstruction and modernisation in the Soviet Union, and science and technology were expected to play a huge part in the process.… Continue Reading