"Aftershocks was written in the midst of the deepest economic crisis since the Great Depression. Although it would be premature to presume to identify the repercussions of the crisis, it is clear that it will have profound aftershock effects in the political, economic, and social spheres. The...

This strikingly original work challenges a familiar assumption within cultural studies: that cultural practices happen in an everyday realm that is potentially open-ended, involving everyone; whereas economics, by contrast, is alien, a force field determined by international financial interests...

A few centuries ago, capitalism set in motion an explosion of economic productivity. Markets and private property had existed for millennia, but what other key institutions fostered capitalism’s relatively recent emergence? Until now, the conceptual toolkit available to answer this question...

Chapter 1: Introduction - European Comparative Economic Studies: Thirty Years After -- Part 1: Political Economy in Comparative Studies -- Chapter 2: The political economy of socialism revisited -- Chapter 3: The development of thinking on the Czechoslovak economic transformation -- Chapter 4:...

"The world is encountering multiple crises - climate, droughts, floods, energy, food, and pandemics. This book is about how capitalism can fix them - how it can solve not cause them. The reason why it has caused them is that we have misconceived the nature of our capitalist system. We have...