Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Dark Designs -- On Reading Classical Political Economy -- Summary -- 1 Primitive Accumulation -- Introduction -- Commodity Production and the Social Division of Labor -- The Household as an Agent of Production -- A Simple Schematic of the Social...

This book argues that the right-wing revolution in the United States has created deepening inequality and will lead to economic catastrophe. The author makes the case that over the past three decades the rich have confiscated wealth and income from the poor and middle class to a far greater...

The purpose of this book is to call for a wholesale rethinking of the way that markets treat both the labour and natural resources on which we all depend. It reveals how economic analysis justifies self-defeating policies that encourage wanton use of the environment and callous abuse of the...