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  • Update Liberalism

    Liberal Answers to the Challenges of Our Time

    Edited by Ralf Fücks, Rainald Manthe ...
    Series series X-Texte zu Kultur und Gesellschaft
    Liberal democracy is under pressure worldwide. It is challenged by anti-liberal movements and parties as well as by authoritarian regimes. Liberalism as a cross-party movement and a broad way of thinking has fallen into the defensive and is often associated with market radicalism, social coldness, and ecological ignorance. The contributors show that liberalism as a school of thought is not dead. ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

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    Essays on a Failing System

    by Wolfgang Streeck ...
    One of the “Best Books of the Year”: Guardian • Financial Times • Times Higher EducationA major collection of essays that questions whether contemporary capitalism will end with a bang or a whimper—from a leading political economist and the author of Buying Time.After years of ill health, capitalism is now in a critical condition. Growth has given way to stagnation; inequality is leading to ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • The Great Regression

    Edited by Heinrich Geiselberger ...
    We are living through a period of dramatic political change – Brexit, the election of Trump, the rise of extreme right movements in Europe and elsewhere, the resurgence of nationalism and xenophobia and a concerted assault on the liberal values and ideals associated with cosmopolitanism and globalization. Suddenly we find ourselves in a world that few would have imagined possible just a few years ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Taking Back Control?

    States and State Systems After Globalism

    by Wolfgang Streeck ...
    Translated by Ben Fowkes, Joshua Rahtz ...
    “This maverick thinker is the Karl Marx of our time…In recent decades, Mr. Streeck has described the complaints of populist movements with unequaled power. That is because he has a convincing theory of what has gone wrong in the complex gearworks of American-driven globalization, and he has been able to lay it out with clarity.”—Christopher Caldwell, New York TimesTaking Back Control? examines the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Real World of Democracy

    by C.B. Macpherson ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    In his 1964 CBC Massey Lectures C. B. Macpherson examines the rival ideas of democracy - the communist, Third World, and Western-liberal variants - and their impact on one another. He suggests that the West need not fear any challenge to liberal democracy if it is prepared to re-examine and alter its own values. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Capitalism on Edge

    How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia

    by Albena Azmanova ...
    Series Book 69 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    The wake of the financial crisis has inspired hopes for dramatic change and stirred visions of capitalism’s terminal collapse. Yet capitalism is not on its deathbed, utopia is not in our future, and revolution is not in the cards. In Capitalism on Edge, Albena Azmanova demonstrates that radical progressive change is still attainable, but it must come from an unexpected direction.Azmanova’s new ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • The Accumulation of Freedom

    Writings on Anarchist Economics

    by Michael Albert, Iain McKay ...
    The only crisis of capitalism is capitalism itself. Let's toss credit default swaps, bailouts, environmental externalities and, while we're at it, private ownership of production in the dustbin of history. The Accumulation of Freedom brings together economists, historians, theorists, and activists for a first-of-its-kind study of anarchist economics. The editors aren't trying to subvert the notion ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The End of Illusions

    Politics, Economy, and Culture in Late Modernity

    by Andreas Reckwitz ...
    Translated by Valentine A. Pakis ...
    We live in a time of great uncertainty about the future. Those heady days of the late twentieth century, when the end of the Cold War seemed to be ushering in a new and more optimistic age, now seem like a distant memory. During the last couple of decades, we’ve been battered by one crisis after another and the idea that humanity is on a progressive path to a better future seems like an illusion ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Ungovernable Society

    A Genealogy of Authoritarian Liberalism

    by Grégoire Chamayou ...
    Translated by Andrew Brown ...
    Rebellion was in the air. Workers were on strike, students were demonstrating on campuses, discipline was breaking down. No relation of domination was left untouched – the relation between the sexes, the racial order, the hierarchies of class, relationships in families, workplaces and colleges. The upheavals of the late 1960s and early 1970s quickly spread through all sectors of social and ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Hayek vs Keynes

    A Battle of Ideas

    by Thomas Hoerber ...
    Hayek vs Keynes: A Battle of Ideas offers a clear historical account of the works of the two great totems of modern economic thought: Friedrich Hayek and John Maynard Keynes. Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom and Keynes’s The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money were written against a background of devastation following the First World War. Thomas Hoerber explains the historical context in ... Read more

    $39.89 CAD

  • What We Are Fighting For

    A Radical Collective Manifesto

    Edited by Federico Campagna, Emanuele Campiglio ...
    *Shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Prize, 2013*From the pens of major figures of the anti-austerity movement, comes the first radical, collective manifesto of the new decade.From participatory democracy to media reform, from direct action to communal living, What Are We Fighting For is a bold look at alternatives to the economic, social and political travesty of contemporary capitalism. Chapters ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Is Globalization?

    by Ulrich Beck ...
    This important new book offers an engaging and challenging introduction to the thorny paths of the globalization debate. ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD