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:

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.
2. 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.
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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RRPE Book Review Editor: Fletcher Baragar Department of Economics 506 Fletcher Argue Bldg. University of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3T 5V5 CANADA Fletcher.Baragar@umanitoba.ca

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List of Books (current as of March 2023)

Alami, Ilias. 2019. Money Power and Financial Capital in Emerging Markets: Facing the Liquidity Tsunami. London and New York: Routledge.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Boushey, Heather. 2019. Unbound: How Inequality Constricts our Economy and What We Can Do About It. Cambridge, MA: Harvard 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.

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.

Cooney, Paul. 2021. Paths of Development in the Southern Cone: Deindustrialization and Reprimarization and Their Social and Environmental Consequences. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.

Coppola, Frances. 2019. The People’s Case for Quantitative Easing. Cambridge, UK and Medford, MA: Polity Press.

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

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, PA: Temple University Press.

Crotty, James. 2019. Keynes Against Capitalism: His Economic Case for Liberal Socialism. London and New York: Routledge.

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

Elveren, Adem Yavuz. 2019. The Economics of Military Spending: A Marxist Perspective. London and New York: Routledge.

Epstein, Gerald. 2019. The Political Economy of Central Banking: Contested Control and the Power of Finance. Selected Essays of Gerald Epstein. 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.

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

Fraser, Nancy. 2022. Cannibal Capitalism: How Our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet—and What We Can Do About It. 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.

Fuller, Gregory W. 2019. The Political Economy of Housing Financialization. Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing.

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.

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.

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

Hira, Anil, Norbert Gaillard and Theodore H. Cohn, eds. 2019. The Failure of Financial Regulation: Why a Major Crisis Could Happen Again. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.

Hodgson, Geoffrey M. 2019. Is There a Future for Heterodox Economics? Institutions, Ideology, and a Scientific Community. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

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

Humphrys, Elizabeth. 2019. How Labour Built Neoliberalism: Australia’s Accord, The Labour Movement, and the Neoliberal Project. Leiden and Boston: Brill.

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.

Jesperson, Jesper, and Finn Olesen, eds. 2019. Progressive Post-Keynesian Economics: Dealing with Reality. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

Joque, Justin. 2022. Revolutionary Mathematics: Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, and the Logic of Capitalism. London: Verso.

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.

Karagiannis, Nikolaos, and John E. King, eds. 2019. A Modern Guide to State Intervention: Economic Policies for Growth and Sustainability. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

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

Kothari, Ashish, Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Federico Demaria, and Albero Acosta. 2019. Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary. New Delhi: Tulica Books.

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

Lapidus, John. 2019. The Quest for a Divided Welfare State: Sweden in the Era of Privatization. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

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.

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

Mann, Geoff. 2019. In the Long Run We Are All Dead: Keynesianism, Political Economy, and Revolution. London: Verso.

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.

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.

Mearman, Andrew, Sebastian Berger, and Danielle Guizzo. 2019. What is Heterodox Economics? Conversations with Leading Economists. London and New York: Routledge.

Mello, Gustavo, and Mauricio Sabadini. 2019. Financial Speculation and Fictitious Profits: A Marxist Analysis. 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. 2019. Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System that Rules the World. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Miller, Ethan. 2019. Reimagining Livelihoods: Life Beyond Economy, Society, and Environment. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota 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.

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

O’Connor, Monica. 2019. The Sex Economy. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Agenda Publishing.

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. Radical Geography Press, Institute for Human Geography.

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

Phillips, Leigh, and Michal Rozworski. 2019. The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations Are Laying the Foundation for Socialism. London and Brooklyn: Verso.

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.

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.

Reuten, Geert. 2019. The Unity of the Capitalist Economy and the State: A Systemic-Dialectical Exposition of the Capitalist System. Leiden and Boston: Brill.

Rochon, Louis-Philippe, and Virginie Monvoisin, eds. 2019. Finance, Growth, and Inequality: Post-Keynesian Perspectives. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

Rolnik, Raquel. 2019. Urban Warfare: Housing Under the Empire of Finance. London: Verso.

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.

Saad-Filho, Alfredo. 2019. Value and Crisis: Essays on Labour, Money, and Contemporary Capitalism. Leiden and Boston: Brill.

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

Sawyer, Malcolm. 2022. Financialization: Economic and Social Impacts. Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing.

Screpanti, Ernesto. 2019. Labour and Value: Rethinking Marx’s Theory of Exploitation. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers.

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.

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.

Stein, Samuel. 2019. Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State. 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.

Toporowski, Jan. 2022. Interest and Capital: The Monetary Economics of Michał Kalecki. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.

Toussaint, Eric. 2019. The Debt System: A History of Sovereign Debts and their Repudiation. Chicago: Haymarket Books.

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.

Tyner, James. 2019. Dead Labor: Toward a Political Economy of Premature Death. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

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: Polity Press.

Victor, Peter. 2019. Managing Without Growth: Slower by Design, Not Disaster. Second Edition. Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton: Edward Elgar.

Vidal, Matt, Tony Smith, Tomás Rotta, and Paul Prew. 2019. The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx. New York: Oxford University Press.

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

Weissenbacher, Rudy. 2019. The Core-Periphery Divide in the European Union: A Dependency Perspective. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Westra, Richard. 2019. Periodizing Capitalism and Capitalist Extinction. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.

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

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