Reviews
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:
- 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.
- Review essays encompassing three or four books that bring together an important literature in significant areas for political economists. These reviews should be about 2500–3500 words in length.
- 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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Please contact the RRPE book review editor, Fletcher Baragar, for assistance in obtaining review copies of books. More detailed instructions will accompany the book when it is sent.
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List of Books (current as of January 2026):
Albert, Michael J. 2024. Navigating the Polycrisis: Mapping the Futures of Capitalism and the Earth. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Antunes, Ricardo. 2025. The Privilege of Servitude: The New Service Proletariat in the Digital Age. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill.
Arditi, David. 2023. Digital Feudalism: Creators, Credit, Consumption, and Capitalism. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing.
Arestis, Philip and Nikolaos Karagiannis. 2025. Proper Economic Policies under the Post-Pandemic Era: Economic Growth and Stability. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
Asensio, Angel. 2024. Macroeconomics After the General Theory: Fundamental Uncertainty, Animal Spirits and Shifting Equilibrium in a Competitive Economy. Abingdon and New York: Routledge.
Aspromourgos, Tony. 2024. Nature and Economic Society: A Classical-Keynesian Synthesis. Abingdon and New York: Routledge.
Baronian, Laurent. 2023. Money and Capital: A Critique of Monetary Thought, the Dollar, and Post-Capitalism. Abingdon and New York: Routledge.
Battistoni, Alyssa. 2025. Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Bélair, Joanny. 2022. Tanzania’s Land Rush: Impacts of the Farmland Investment Game. London: Bloomsbury.
Bellofiore, Riccardo and Tommaso Redolfi Riva, eds. 2024. Marx: Key Concepts. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
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.
Bernards, Nick. 2024. Fictions of Financialization: Rethinking Speculation, Exploitation and Twenty-First Century Capitalism. London: Pluto Press.
Best, Beverley. 2024. The Automatic Fetish: The Law of Value in Marx’s Capital. London and New York: Verso.
Bhattacharyya, Gargi. 2024. The Futures of Racial Capitalism. Cambridge, UK and Hoboken, NJ: Polity 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 and New York: Routledge.
Binder, Andrea.2023. Offshore Finance and State Power. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
Binder, Carola. 2024. Shock Values: Prices and Inflation in American Democracy. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.
Block, Fred. 2025. The Habitation Society: Creating Sustainable Prosperity. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Agenda Publishing.
Boyer, Robert. 2022. Political Economy of Capitalisms. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan.
Bresser-Pereira, Luiz Carlos. 2025. The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Rentier Capitalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Cardão-Pito, Tiago. 2026. Rethinking Economic Theory: A New Political Economy for the Biosphere. Abingdon, UK and New York, NY: Routledge.
Carrasco-Miró, Gisela. 2025. Decolonizing Feminist Economics: Possibilities for Just Futures. Bristol: Bristol University Press.
Carroll, Myles. 2022. The Making of Modern Japan: Power, Crisis, and the Promise of Transformation. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.
Cassis, Youssef and Jean-Jacques van Helten, eds. 2023. The Legacy of the Global Financial Crisis. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Chatzarakis, Nikolaos, Persefoni Tsaliki and Lefteris Tsoulfidis. 2024. Economic Growth and Long Cycles: A Classical Political Economy Approach. London and New York: Routledge.
Cohen, Daniel. 2024. Homo Numericus: The Coming “Civilisation..” Cambridge, UK: Polity.
Condon, Patrick N. 2024. Broken City: Land Speculation, Inequality, and Urban Crisis. Vancouver: UBC Press.
Cypher, James M., and Matteo Crossa. 2024. The Political Economy of Transnational Power and Production: Mexico’s Metamorphosis 1982−2022. Abingdon 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.
Dolan-Evans, Elliot. 2025. Making War Safe for Capitalism: The World Bank, IMF, and The Conflict in Ukraine. Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press.
Drott, Eric. 2024. Streaming Music, Streaming Capital. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Durand, Cédric. 2025. How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-feudalism: The Making of the Digital Economy. London and New York: Verso.
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, 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: Brill.
Fine, Ben. 2024. Economics Imperialism and Interdisciplinarity: The Watershed and After. Leiden: Brill.
Fine, Ben. 2025. In and Against Development: The World Bank behind the Looking Glass. Leiden and Boston, MA: Brill.
Freudenberg, Nicholas. 2022. At What Cost: Modern Capitalism and the Future of Health. Oxford and New York: Oxford 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.
Gerstenberger, Heide. 2023. Market and Violence: The Functioning of Capitalism in History. Chicago: Haymarket Books.
Greenwood, Daphne T. 2025. Work, Pay, and Sustainability: A New Economics of Labor. Cambridge, UK and Hoboken, NJ: Polity 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.
Hanieh, Adam. 2024. Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market. New York and London: Verso.
Hein, Eckhard. 2023. Macroeconomics after Kalecki and Keynes: Post-Keynesian Foundations. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.
Herrera, Rémy and Zhiming Long. 2023. Dynamics of China’s Economy: Growth Cycles and Crises from 1949 to the Present Day. Chicago: Haymarket Books.
Jakobsen, Jostein. 2025. Capital’s Food Regime: Class Struggle, the State, and Corporate Agriculture in India. Leiden and Boston: Brill.
Jefferson, Therese and John E. King, eds. 2024. Post Keynesian Economics: Key Debates and Contending Perspectives. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.
Jerne, Christina. 2025. Opposition by Imitation: The Economics of Italian Anti-Mafia Activism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Katz, Claudio. 2022. Dependency Theory after Fifty Years: The Continuing Relevance of Latin American Critical Thought. Leiden and Boston: Brill.
Khalili, Laleh. 2025. Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy. New York and London: Verso.
Knowles, Anthony J. 2025. Driving Productivity: Automation, Labor, and Industrial Development in the United States and Germany. Leiden and Boston: Brill.
Konings, Martijn. 2025. The Bailout State: Why Governments Rescue Banks, Not People. Cambridge, UK: Polity Books.
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.
Kregel, Jan, ed. 2024. Financial Economics. London and New York: Anthem Press.
Kuruma, Samezō. 2024. In Pursuit of Marx’s Theory of Crisis. Translated and edited by Michael Schauerte. Leiden: Brill.
Landier, Augustin, and David Thesmar. 2025. The Price of Our Values: The Economic Limits of Moral Life. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.
Larue, Louis. 2025. Alternative Currencies: A Critical Approach. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Lavoie, Marc. 2022. Post-Keynesian Growth Theory: Selected Essays. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.
Leite, Marianna and Matti Kohonen, eds. 2024. Righting the Economy: Towards a People’s Recovery from Economics and Environmental Crisis. Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing.
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.
Madden, Kirsten, and Joseph Persky. 2024. Building a Social Science: 19th Century British Cooperative Thought. New York: Oxford University Press.
Mandler, Michael. 2025. Economics without Preferences: Microeconomics and Policymaking beyond the Maximizing Individual. Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press.
Martin, Philip. 2023. Bracero 2.0: Mexican Workers in North American Agriculture. New York: Oxford University Press.
May, Ann Mari. 2022. Gender and the Dismal Science: Women in the Early Years of the Economics Profession. New York: Columbia 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.
Milanovic, Branko. 2023. Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Miller, Owen, ed. 2024. State Capitalism and Development in East Asia since 1945. Chicago: Haymarket Books.
Morgan, Jamie. 2024. Conversations in Real-World Economics: A Collection of Interviews. Bristol, UK: World Economics Association Books.
Moudud, Jamee K. 2025. Legal and Political Foundations of Capitalism: The End of Laissez-Faire? Abingdon and New York: Routledge.
O’Dwyer, Rachel. 2023. Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform. London and New York: Verso.
Ortiz, Horacio. 2021. The Everyday Practice of Valuation and Investment: Political Imaginaries of Shareholder Value. New York: Columbia University Press.
Palladino, Lenore. 2024. Good Company: Economic Policy after Shareholder Primacy. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.
Peters, John. 2022. Jobs with Inequality: Financialization, Post-Democracy and Labour Market Deregulation in Canada. Toronto, Buffalo, and London: University of Toronto Press.
Provost, Claire, and Matt Kennard. 2023. Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy. New York, NY: Bloomsbury.
Rawal, Vikas, Jayati Ghosh and C.P. Chadresekhar, eds. 2022. When Governments Fail: A Pandemic and its Aftermath. New York: Columbia University Press.
Reich, Michael. 2025. The Unexpected Economics of Minimum Wages. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.
Reinert, Erik. 2022. Essays in the Theory and History of Uneven Economic Development. London and New York: Anthem Press.
Reuten, Geert. 2024. Design of a Worker Cooperatives Society: An Alternative Beyond Capitalism and Socialism, and the Transition Towards It. Chicago: Haymarket Books.
Roth, Gary, ed. 2024. Paul Mattick: Selected Texts. Leiden and Boston: Brill.
Ruggeri, Giuseppe. 2022. Work and Leisure in America. Altona, MB: Friesen Press.
Safri, Maliha, Marianna Pavlovskaya, Stephen Healy, and Craig Borowiak. 2024. Solidarity Cities: Confronting Racial Capitalism, Mapping Transformation. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Samir, Saul. 2025. Imperialism: As Rampant Today as in the Past. Montreal: Baraka Books.
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.
Selwyn, Benjamin, and Christin Bernhold. 2025. Capitalist Value Chains: Labour Exploitation, Nature Destruction, Geopolitics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Skott, Peter. 2023. Structuralist and Behavioral Macroeconomics. Cambridge, UK and New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Smith, Tony. 2025. A Socialism for the Twenty-First Century: Towards the “Full and Free Development of Every Individual.” 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: Oxford University Press.
The EReNSEP Writing Collective and Costas Lapavitsas. 2023. The State of Capitalism: Economy, Society, and Hegemony. London and New York, Verso.
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.
Wisman, Jon D. 2022. The Origins and Dynamics of Inequality: Sex, Politics, and Ideology. New York: Oxford University Press.
Wray, L. Randall. 2025. Understanding Modern Money Theory: Money and Credit in Capitalist Economies. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.