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Indispensable for human existence yet increasingly owned and controlled by private capital; the last decade has witnessed an intensifying battle for water. The exploding profits of the multinational companies which dominate the water industry are testimony to how high the stakes are - by 2012 it had become a worth a trillion dollars. The Last ...
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Economics after Capitalism
A Guide to the Ruins and a Road to the Future
- Pluto Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 26,55 €
ISBN 978-0-7453-3507-0
EAN 9780745335070
'There is no alternative' has been the unofficial mantra of the neoliberal order since its utterance by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s. As Derek Wall argues in Economics After Capitalism, there is in fact an alternative to our crisis-ridden, austerity-inflicted world - and not just one alternative, but many. Challenging the arguments for markets, mainstream ...
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- Pluto Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 21,10 €
ISBN 978-0-7453-3577-3
EAN 9780745335773
Economics is too important to be left to the economists. This concise and readable book provides non-specialist readers with all the information they need to understand how capitalism works (and how it doesn't). Economics for Everyone, now published in second edition, is an antidote to the abstract and ideological way that economics is normally taught ...
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- Pluto Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 42,10 €
ISBN 978-0-7453-3621-3
EAN 9780745336213
It is becoming increasingly clear for those who care to see it, that class struggle is at the core of the crisis which started in 2007. The victory of neoliberalism is closely related to two decades of successful attacks on trade unions, in particular in the west. Progressive research is more than ever needed in ...
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- Pluto Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
ISBN 978-0-7453-2922-2
EAN 9780745329222
The Geopolitics of Capitalism links contemporary inter-state rivalry and cooperation to the spatial processes of global capitalism, recasting the notion of geopolitics as a territorial manifestation of accumulation. Concentrating on the post-Cold War period, Gonzalo Pozo examines the way in which the capitalist mode of production creates its own spaces of state conflict. The book ...
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- Pluto Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 26,55 €
ISBN 978-0-7453-3301-4
EAN 9780745333014
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Churnalism, Complacency and Collusion
A Critical Introduction to Business and Financial Journalism
- Pluto Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
ISBN 978-0-7453-3203-1
EAN 9780745332031
Churnalism, Complacency and Collusion provides a definitive analysis of financial and business journalism - its origins, how and why it developed and how it shapes and influences political debates. Keith J. Butterick provides a compelling explanation for why big business needs the press and why the press needs big business.The book cuts through the fog ...
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- Pluto Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 216 páginas
PVP: 4,99 €
ISBN 978-0-7453-3305-2
EAN 9780745333052
Articulating Dissent analyses the new communicative strategies of coalition protest movements and how these impact on a mainstream media unaccustomed to fractured articulations of dissent. Pollyanna Ruiz shows how coalition protest movements against austerity, war and globalisation build upon the communicative strategies of older single issue campaigns such as the anti-criminal justice bill protests and ...
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The Battle for Europe
How an Elite Hijacked a Continent and How We Can Take it Back
- Pluto Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 216 páginas
PVP: 25,05 €
ISBN 978-0-7453-3450-9
EAN 9780745334509
The Battle for Europe brings into sharp focus the historical importance of the current turmoil in the continent. Thomas Fazi explains what has happened in Europe following the financial crash of 2008 as a case of economic shock doctrine, the first time in history that such 'therapy' has been applied to an entire continent. Drawing ...
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Against Austerity
Class, Ideology and Socialist Strategy
- Pluto Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 168 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-0-7453-3328-1
EAN 9780745333281
Five years into capitalism's deepest crisis, which has led to cuts and economic pain across the world, Against Austerity addresses a puzzling aspect of the current conjuncture: why are the rich still getting away with it? Why is protest so ephemeral? Why does the left appear to be marginal to political life? In an analysis ...
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In this book Ruslan Dzarasov reveals the nature of Russian capitalism following the fall of the Soviet Union, showing how the system originated in both the degenerated Soviet bureaucracy and the pressures of global capital. He provides an unprecedented analysis of Russian firms' corporate governance and labour practices, and makes sense of their peculiar investment ...
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- Pluto Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-7453-3452-3
EAN 9780745334523
In The Implosion of Capitalism renowned political economist Samir Amin analyses the contours of a world in crisis. He connects the key events of our times - financial crisis, Eurozone implosion, the emerging BRIC nations and the rise of political Islam - in a coherent and historically based account. In light of these major crises ...
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Plane Truth
Aviation's Real Impact on People and the Environment
- Pluto Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 25,05 €
ISBN 978-0-7453-3032-7
EAN 9780745330327
As aviation charges ahead to become one of the world's fastest growing industries, with passenger numbers and cargo volumes projected to double in the next 20 years, Plane Truth sounds a highly informed note of scepticism. Rose Bridger provides a comprehensive account of aviation's impact, including how new airports are gobbling up farmland and wildlife ...
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The Poverty of Capitalism
Economic Meltdown and the Struggle for What Comes Next
- Pluto Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-0-7453-3330-4
EAN 9780745333304
Capitalist growth is widely heralded as the only answer to the crisis still sweeping the global economy. Yet the era of corporate globalisation has been defined by unprecedented levels of inequality and environmental degradation. A return to capitalist growth threatens to exacerbate these problems, not solve them.In The Poverty of Capitalism, John Hilary reveals the ...
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Crucible of Resistance
Greece, the Eurozone and the World Economic Crisis
- Pluto Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 23,60 €
ISBN 978-0-7453-3380-9
EAN 9780745333809
Crucible of Resistance seeks to challenge the mainstream account of the 'Greek Crisis' and situate it within a broader regional context and ultimately a critique of the world economic system. Christos Laskos and Euclid Tsakalotos argue that Greece's exceptionalism is largely a myth. They show how the causes of the 2008 global financial crisis lie ...
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Salvador Allende
Revolutionary Democrat
- Pluto Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-0-7453-3307-6
EAN 9780745333076
This is a political biography of one of the 20th century's most emblematic left-wing figures - Salvador Allende, who was president of Chile until he was ousted by General Pinochet in a US-supported coup in 1973. Victor Figueroa Clark guides us through Allende's life and political project, answering some of the most frequently asked questions. ...
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- Pluto Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 392 páginas
PVP: 32,45 €
ISBN 978-0-7453-3313-7
EAN 9780745333137
The Cancer Stage of Capitalism is a modern classic of critical philosophy and political economy, renowned for its depth and comprehensive research. It provides a step by step diagnosis of the continuing economic collapse in the US and Europe and has had an enormous influence on new visions of economic alternatives.John McMurtry argues that our ...
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- Pluto Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 26,55 €
ISBN 978-0-7453-3332-8
EAN 9780745333328
During the chaos of the eurozone crisis, few mainstream commentators have stopped to question the purpose of the European Union itself, and whose interests it serves. Corporate Europe goes beyond the divisions between nation-states, focusing instead on the division between the corporate elite and the peoples of Europe.David Cronin spent a year investigating the privileged ...
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- Pluto Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 19,95 €
ISBN 978-0-7453-3350-2
EAN 9780745333502
Popular anger against bankers and the financial system has never been higher, yet the practical workings of the system remain opaque to many people. Subverting Global Finance aims to bridge the gap between protest slogans and practical proposals for reform.As a derivatives-broker turned campaigner, Brett Scott has a unique understanding of life inside and outside ...
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The Financial Crisis and the Global South
A Development Perspective
- Pluto Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 30,70 €
ISBN 978-0-7453-3362-5
EAN 9780745333625
This book is a major contribution exploring the policy options available for developing and emerging economies in response to the global economic crises.Written by a highly respected development economist, the book gives a clear-eyed account of the issues particular to these countries and critically evaluates different policy approaches, including reforms in financial, monetary and trade ...
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