RRPE BOOKLIST March 2024
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The Review of Radical Political Economics welcomes and actively recruits reviews of significant books that are of interest to RRPE readers. Contributors are invited to prepare reviews of books on the following list, which we have received from publishers interested in having reviews appear in the RRPE. Contributors are also welcomed and encouraged to prepare reviews of significant books not on this list but that are of interest to RRPE readers.

RRPE publishes three different types of reviews:

  1. Reviews of individual books, both books on the following list which have been received from publishers, as well as books not on this list that are related to radical political economics. These reviews should be 1500–2000 words in length.
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  3. Ambitious examinations of bodies of literature that should be better known by RRPE readers. These reviews should also be about 2500–3500 words in length.

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List of Books (current as of March 2024)

Allen, Patrick, Suzanne J. Konzelmann, and Jan Toporowski, eds. 2021. The Return of the State: Restructuring Britain for the Common Good. Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing.

Arboleda, Martín. 2020. Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction under Late Capitalism. London and New York: Verso.

Arditi, David. 2023. Digital Feudalism: Creators, Credit, Consumption and Capitalism. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing.

Armstrong, Phil. 2020. Can Heterodox Economics Make a Difference? Conversations with Key Thinkers. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

Aspromourgos, Tony. 2024. Nature and Economic Society: A Classical-Keynesian Synthesis. Abingdon, UK, and New York: Routledge.

Atkinson, Rowland. 2020. Alpha City: How London was Captured by the Super-Rich. London and New York: Verso.

Banaji, Jairus. 2020. A Brief History of Commercial Capitalism. Chicago: Haymarket Books.

Barker, Drucilla K, Suzanne Bergeron, and Susan F. Feiner. 2021. Liberating Economics: Feminist Perspectives on Family, Work, and Globalization. Second Edition. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Baronian, Laurent. 2023. Money and Capital: A Critique of Monetary Thought, the Dollar, and Post-Capitalism. Abingdon, UK, and New York: Routledge.

Barrow, Clyde. 2020. The Dangerous Class: The Concept of the Lumpenproletariat. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Bélair, Joanny. 2022. Tanzania’s Land Rush: Impacts of the Farmland Investment Game. London: Bloomsbury.

Ben Gadha, Maha, Fadhel Kaboub, Kai Koddenbrock, Ines Mahmoud, and Ndonga Sambo Sylla, eds. 2022. Economic and Monetary Sovereignty in 21st Century Africa. London: Pluto Press.

Bigg, Robert J. 2023. Alvin Hansen: Seeking a Suitable Stabilization—An Academic Biography. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.

Bina, Cyrus. 2023. Globalization and the Decline of American Power: The Political Economy of the American Fall. Abingdon, UK, and New York: Routledge.

Binder, Andrea.2023. Offshore Finance and State Power. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.

Bollard, Alan. 2023. Economists in the Cold War: How a Handful of Economists Fought the Battle of Ideas. New York: Oxford University Press.

Boyer, Robert. 2022. Political Economy of Capitalisms. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan.

Carabelli, Anna M. 2021. Keynes on Uncertainty and Tragic Happiness: Complexity and Expectations. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.

Carroll, Myles. 2022. The Making of Modern Japan: Power, Crisis, and the Promise of Transformation. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.

Cassell, Mark K. 2020. Banking on the State: The Political Economy of Public Savings Banks. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Agenda Publishing.

Cassis, Youssef and Jean-Jacques van Helten, eds. 2023. The Legacy of the Global Financial Crisis. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.

Chan, Jenny, Mark Selden, and Pun Ngai. 2020. Dying for an iPhone: Apple, Foxconn, and the Lives of Chinese Workers. London: Pluto Press.

Chester, Lynne and Tae-Hee Jo, eds. 2022. Heterodox Economics: Legacy and Prospects. Bristol, UK: World Economics Association Books.

Creticos, Peter A., Larry Bennett, Laura Owen, Costas Spirou, and Maxine Morphis-Riesbeck, eds. 2021. The Many Futures of Work: Rethinking Expectations and Breaking Molds. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Cross, Hannah. 2021. Migration Beyond Capitalism. Cambridge, UK and Medford, MA: Polity Press.

Cypher, James M., and Matteo Crossa. 2024. The Political Economy of Transnational Power and Production: Mexico’s Metamorphosis 1982−2022. Abingdon, UK, and New York: Routledge.

Das, Raju J. and Deepak K. Mishra, eds. 2023. Global Poverty: Rethinking Causality. Boston: Brill.

Deardon, Nick. 2023. Pharmanomics: How Big Pharma Destroys Global Health. London and New York: Verso.

Dunn, Bill, ed. 2020. A Research Agenda for Critical Political Economy. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

Farjoun, Emmanuel D., Moshé Machover, and David Zachariah. 2022. How Labor Powers the Global Economy: A Labor Theory of Capitalism. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Ferri, Giovanni, and Vincenzo D’Apice, eds. 2021. A Modern Guide to Financial Shocks and Crises. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

Ferri, Piero. 2022. Income Distribution, Growth and Unemployment: A Complex Dynamic Approach. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar

Fine, Ben. 2024. Economics Imperialism and Interdisciplinarity: Before the Watershed. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.

Fine, Ben. 2024. Economics Imperialism and Interdisciplinarity: The Watershed and After. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.

Fligstein, Neil. 2021. The Banks Did It: An Anatomy of the Financial Crisis. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Folbre, Nancy. 2021. The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems: An Intersectional Political Economy. London and New York: Verso.

Freudenberg, Nicholas. 2022. At What Cost: Modern Capitalism and the Future of Health. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.

Fullbrook, Edward, and Jamie Morgan, eds. 2021. Post-Neoliberal Economics. Bristol, UK: World Economics Association.

Funk, Kevin. 2022. Rooted Globalism: Arab-Latin American Business Elites and the Politics of Global Imaginaries. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

Fusaro, Lorenzo, and Leinad Johan Alcalá Sandoval, eds. 2022. The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation in Latin America and Beyond: Actuality and Pertinence. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Gardner, Jodi, Mia Gray, and Katharina Moser, eds. 2020. Debt and Austerity: Implications of the Financial Crisis. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

Gerstenberger, Heide. 2023. Market and Violence: The Functioning of Capitalism in History. Chicago: Haymarket Books.

Ghosh, Jayati, ed. 2021. Informal Women Workers in the Global South: Policies and Practices for the Formalization of Women’s Employment in Developing Economies. New York: Routledge.

Groeger, Cristina Viviana. 2021. The Education Trap: Schools and the Remaking of Inequality in Boston. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Hajer, Jesse, and John Loxley. 2021. Social Service, Private Gain: The Political Economy of Social Impact Bonds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Hall, Rebecca Jane. 2022. Refracted Economies: Diamond Mining and Social Reproduction in the North. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press.

Hayes, M.G. 2020. John Maynard Keynes. Cambridge, UK and Medford, MA: Polity Press.

Hein, Eckhard. 2023. Macroeconomics after Kalecki and Keynes: Post-Keynesian Foundations. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

Hermann, Christoph. 2021. The Critique of Commodification: Contours of a Post-Capitalist Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Hudson, Ian, and Mark Hudson. 2021. Consumption. Cambridge, UK and Medford, MA: Polity Press.

Huws, Ursula. 2020. Reinventing the Welfare State: Digital Platforms and Public Policies. London: Pluto Press.

Jacobsen, Joyce P. 2020. Advanced Introduction to Feminist Economics. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

Jossa, Bruno. 2020. Managing the Cooperative Enterprise: The Rise of Worker-Controlled Firms. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

Kahlili, Laleh. 2020. Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula. London and New York: Verso.

Katz, Claudio. 2022. Dependency Theory after Fifty Years: The Continuing Relevance of Latin American Critical Thought. Leiden and Boston: Brill.

Krämer, Hagen M., Christian R. Proaño, and Mark Setterfield. 2023. Capitalism, Inclusive Growth and Social Protection: Inherent Contradiction or Achievable Vision? Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

Kumar, Ashok. 2020. Monopsony Capitalism: Power & Production in the Twilight of the Sweatshop Age. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Larson, Rob. 2020. Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley. Chicago: Haymarket Books.

Lavoie, Marc. 2020. Post-Keynesian Monetary Theory: Selected Essays. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

Lavoie, Marc. 2022. Post-Keynesian Growth Theory: Selected Essays. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

Lebowitz, Michael. 2021. Between Capitalism and Community. New York: Monthly Review Press.

Livingstone, D.W. 2023. Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism: Class, Class Consciousness and Activism in the “Knowledge Economy.” Halifax, NS and Winnipeg, MB: Fernwood Publishing.

Lopes, Tiago Camarhino. 2023. Law of Value and Theories of Value: Symmetrical Critique of Classical and Neoclassical Political Economy. Chicago: Haymarket Books.

MacLean, Brian K., Hassan Bougrine, and Louis-Philippe Rochon, eds. 2020. Aggregate Demand and Employment: International Perspectives. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

Marglin, Stephen A. 2021. Raising Keynes: A Twenty-First-Century General Theory. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Marins, Carlos Eduardo. 2020. Dependency, Neoliberalism and Globalization in Latin America. Leiden and Boston: Brill.

Martin, Philip. 2023. Bracero 2.0: Mexican Workers in North American Agriculture. New York: Oxford University Press.

Mason, Patrick L. 2023. The Economics of Structural Racism: Stratification Economics and U.S. Labor Markets. Cambridge, UK and New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

McDonough, Terrence, Cian McMahon, and David M. Kotz, eds. 2022. Handbook on Social Structure of Accumulation Theory. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

McNally, David. 2020. Blood and Money: War, Slavery, Finance and Empire. Chicago: Haymarket Books.

McNeill, Desmond. 2020. Fetishism and the Theory of Value: Reassessing Marx in the 21st Century. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Mezzadri, Alessandra, ed. 2020. Marx in the Field. London and New York: Anthem Press.

Mielants, Eric, and Katsiaryna Salavei Bardos, eds. 2020. Economic Cycles and Social Movements: Past, Present and Future. London and New York: Routledge.

Milanovic, Branko. 2023. Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Moosa, Imad A. 2021. The Economics of COVID-19: Implications of the Pandemic for Economic Thought and Public Policy. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

Musto, Marcello, ed. 2020. The Marx Revival: Key Concepts and New Interpretations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Nelson, Paul. 2021. Global Development and Human Rights: The Sustainable Development Goals and Beyond. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

O’Dwyer, Rachel. 2023. Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform. London and New York: Verso.

Obeng-Odoom, Franklin. 2020. The Commons in an Age of Uncertainty: Decolonizing Nature, Economy, and Society. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Ortiz, Horacio. 2021. The Everyday Practice of Valuation and Investment: Political Imaginaries of Shareholder Value. New York: Columbia University Press.

Palley, Thomas I. 2021. Neoliberalism and the Road to Inequality and Stagnation: A Chronicle Foretold. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

Panayotakis, Costas. 2021. The Capitalist Mode of Destruction: Austerity, Ecological Crisis, and the Hollowing Out of Democracy. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press.

Peet, Richard. 2021. Global Finance Capitalism. Denton, TX: Radical Geography Press, Institute for Human Geography.

Peters, John. 2022. Jobs with Inequality: Financialization, Post-Democracy and Labor Market Deregulation in Canada. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press.

Plehwe, Dieter, Quinn Slobodian, and Philip Mirowski, eds. 2020. Nine Lives of Neoliberalism. London and New York: Verso.

Polychroniu, C.J., ed. 2021. Economics and the Left: Interviews with Progressive Economists. London and New York: Verso.

Provost, Claire, and Matt Kennard. 2023. Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy. New York, NY: Bloomsbury.

Quinn, William, and John D. Turner. 2020. Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Rawal, Vikas, Jayati Ghosh, and C.P. Chadresekhar, eds. 2022. When Governments Fail: A Pandemic and its Aftermath. New York: Columbia University Press.

Reinert, Erik. 2022. Essays in the Theory and History of Uneven Economic Development. London and New York: Anthem Press.

Roncaglia, Allesandro. 2020. The Age of Fragmentation: A History of Contemporary Economic Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Rosenfeld, Jake. 2021. You’re Paid What You’re Worth and Other Myths of the Modern Economy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Roy, Satyaki. 2020. Contours of Value Capture: India’s Neoliberal Path of Industrial Development. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Ruggeri, Giuseppe. 2022. Work and Leisure in America. Altona, MB: Friesen Press.

Saith, Ashwani. 2022. Cambridge Economics in the Post-Keynesian Era: The Eclipse of Heterodox Traditions. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.

Schettino, Francesco, and Fabio Clementi. 2022. Crisis, Inequalities and Poverty: The Structural Inequities of Capitalism, from Lehman Brothers to COVID-19. Leiden, The Netherlands and Boston, MA: Brill.

Sherman, Howard. 2020. 9 Historic Revolutions: A Study in Political and Economic Evolution. London and New York: Anthem Press.

Shermer, Elizabeth Tandy. 2021. Indentured Students: How Government-Guaranteed Loans Left Generations Drowning in College Debt. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Sinha, Ajit, ed. 2021. A Reflection on Sraffa’s Revolution in Economic Theory. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.

Skott, Peter. 2023. Structuralist and Behavioral Macroeconomics. Cambridge, UK and New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Smith, Jason E. 2020. Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation. London: Reaktion Books.

Smith, Murray E.G, Jonah Butovsky, and Josh J. Watterton. 2021. Twilight Capitalism: Karl Marx and the Decay of the Profit System. Black Point, NS and Winnipeg, MB: Fernwood Publishing.

Solimano, Andrés. 2020. A History of Big Recessions in the Long Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Sotelo Valencia, Adrián. 2023. Global Labor in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: How COVID-19 Accelerated Humanity’s Degradation. Leiden, and Boston: Brill.

Taylor, Brian D., Eric A. Morris, and Jeffrey R. Brown. 2023. The Drive for Dollars: How Fiscal Policies Shaped Urban Freeways and Transformed American Cities. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

The EReNSEP Writing Collective, and Costas Lapavitsas. 2023. The State of Capitalism: Economy, Society, and Hegemony. London and New York, Verso.

Tooze, Adam. 2021. Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy. New York: Viking.

Toporowski, Jan. 2020. Credit and Crisis from Marx to Minsky. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

Toussaint, Eric. 2020. Greece 2015: There was an Alternative. Broadway, NSW, Australia: Resistance Books.

Tsoulfidis, Lefteris. 2021. Capital Theory and Political Economy: Prices, Income Distribution, and Stability. New York: Routledge.

Upadhyay, V. and Paramjit Singh, eds. 2021. Global Political Economy: A Critique of Contemporary Capitalism. Delhi: Aakar Books.

Valente, Jonas C.L. 2021. From Online Platforms to Digital Monopolies: Technology, Information and Power. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.

Vallet, Guillaume, Silvio Kappes, and Louis-Philippe Rochon, eds. 2022. Central Banking, Monetary Policy, and the Future of Money. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

Vermeiren, Mattias. 2021. Crisis and Inequality: The Political Economy of Advanced Capitalism. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.

Weisbach, Michael S. 2021. The Economist’s Craft: An Introduction to Research, Publishing, and Professional Development. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press.

Westra, Richard. 2021. Economics, Science and Capitalism. London: Routledge.

Whiteside, Heather, ed. 2020. Canadian Political Economy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Wisman, Jon D. 2022. The Origins and Dynamics of Inequality: Sex, Politics, and Ideology. New York: Oxford University Press.

Zarembka, Paul. 2020. Key Elements of Social Theory Revolutionized by Marx. Leiden and Boston: Brill.

Zeira, Joseph. 2021. The Israeli Economy: A Story of Success and Costs. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press.

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