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  • Cover image of book The Cost of Living Crisis (and how to get out of it) by Costas Lapavitsas, James Meadway and Doug Nicholls
    The Cost of Living Crisis (and how to get out of it) - by Costas Lapavitsas, James Meadway and Doug Nicholls

    £7.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781804293843 | ISBN 10: 1804293849

    A myth-busting pamphlet that charts a course out of the current cost of living crisis.  We are living through a cost of living crisis, with interest rate hikes and the prices of everyday consumables and energy bills sky-rocketing. Why is this ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Left Behind: Reimagining Britain
    The Left Behind: Reimagining Britain's Socially Excluded - by James Morrison

    £16.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780745344621 | ISBN 10: 0745344623

    'The Left Behind' is a defining motif of contemporary British political discourse. It is the thread that knits together the 2016 Brexit referendum, the crumbling of the fabled 'Red Wall' in the North, and the pernicious culture war being waged today. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze
    Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World - by Adam Tooze

    £12.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780141032214 | ISBN 10: 0141032219

    The definitive history of the Great Financial Crisis, from the acclaimed author of The Deluge and The Wages of Destruction.  In September 2008 the Great Financial Crisis, triggered by the collapse of Lehman brothers, shook the world. A decade ... more

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  • Cover image of book Invisible Britain: Portraits of Hope and Resilience by Paul Sng (Editor)
    Invisible Britain: Portraits of Hope and Resilience - by Paul Sng (Editor)

    £20.00   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781447344117 | ISBN 10: 1447344111

    Invisible Britain: Portraits of Hope and Resilience reveals untold stories from people who have been left out of the media narrative and left behind by government policy.   Featuring the work of accomplished documentary photographers, the book ... more

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  • Cover image of book Minority Women and Austerity: Survival and Resistance in France and Britain by Leah Bassel and Akwugo Emejulu
    Minority Women and Austerity: Survival and Resistance in France and Britain - by Leah Bassel and Akwugo Emejulu

    £24.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781447327141 | ISBN 10: 1447327144

    In the first book of its kind, Bassel and Emejulu explore minority women’s experiences of and resistances to austerity measures in France and Britain. Minority women are often portrayed as passive victims. However, Minority Women and Austerity demo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Vintage Minis: Austerity by Yanis Varoufakis
    Vintage Minis: Austerity - by Yanis Varoufakis

    £3.50   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784874100 | ISBN 10: 1784874108

    VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.   How do we choose between what is fair and just, and what our debtors demand of us? Yanis Varoufakis was put in such a dilemma in 2015 when he became the finance minister of Greece. In this ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Violence Of Austerity by Vickie Cooper and David Whyte (Editors)
    The Violence Of Austerity - by Vickie Cooper and David Whyte (Editors)

    £10.00   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780745399485 | ISBN 10: 0745399487

    Austerity, a response to the aftermath of the financial crisis, continues to devastate contemporary Britain.   In The Violence of Austerity, Vickie Cooper and David Whyte bring together the voices of campaigners and academics including Danny D ... more

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  • Cover image of book Broken Benefits: What
    Broken Benefits: What's Gone Wrong with Welfare Reform - by Sam Royston

    £15.00   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781447333265 | ISBN 10: 1447333268

    Britain is going through the most radical upheaval of the benefits system since its foundations were laid at the end of the 1940s. In Broken Benefits, Sam Royston argues that social security isn’t working, and without a change in direction, it will ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dismembered: How the Attack on the State Harms Us All by Polly Toynbee & David Walker
    Dismembered: How the Attack on the State Harms Us All - by Polly Toynbee & David Walker

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781783351206 | ISBN 10: 1783351209

    What is the state? And what's it ever done for you? More than you think.   The state houses us, educates us, employs us, protects us on the street and in the wider world. It binds us all together. And it's under threat.   Toynbee and Wa ... more

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  • Cover image of book Syriza Wave: Surging and Crashing with the Greek Left by Helena Sheehan
    Syriza Wave: Surging and Crashing with the Greek Left - by Helena Sheehan

    £16.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781583676257 | ISBN 10: 1583676252

    Utterly corrupt corporate and government elites bankrupted Greece twice over. First, by profligate deficit spending benefitting only themselves; second, by agreeing to an IMF “bailout” of the Greek economy, devastating ordinary Greek citizens who ... more

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  • Cover image of book Movement Parties Against Austerity by Donatella della Porta, Joseba Fernández, Hara Kouki and Lorenzo Mosca
    Movement Parties Against Austerity - by Donatella della Porta, Joseba Fernández, Hara Kouki and Lorenzo Mosca

    £16.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781509511464 | ISBN 10: 1509511466

    The ascendance of austerity policies and the wave of protests they have generated have had a deep impact on the shape of contemporary politics. The stunning electoral successes of Syriza in Greece, Podemos in Spain and the Movimento 5 Stelle (M5S) in ... more

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  • Cover image of book And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe, Austerity and the Threat to Global Stability by Yanis Varoufakis
    And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe, Austerity and the Threat to Global Stability - by Yanis Varoufakis

    £10.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784704117 | ISBN 10: 1784704113

    THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER � The crisis in Europe is not over, it's getting worse. In this dramatic narrative of Europe�s economic rise and spectacular fall, Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece, �the emerging rock st ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Ministry of Nostalgia: Consuming Austerity by Owen Hatherley
    The Ministry of Nostalgia: Consuming Austerity - by Owen Hatherley

    £9.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784780760 | ISBN 10: 1784780766

    Why should we have to “Keep Calm and Carry On”?  In this brilliant polemical rampage, Owen Hatherley shows how our past is being resold in order to defend the indefensible. From the marketing of a “make do and mend” aesthetic to the gro ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Long Depression: Marxism and the Global Crisis of Capitalism by Michael Roberts
    The Long Depression: Marxism and the Global Crisis of Capitalism - by Michael Roberts

    £14.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781608464685 | ISBN 10: 1608464687

    A significant contribution to developing a Marxist analysis of the origins of the long depression.  Setting out from an unapologetic Marxist perspective, The Long Depression argues that the global economy remains in the throes of a depression. Ma ... more

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  • Cover image of book Europe in Revolt! by Catarina PrĂ­ncipe and Bhaskar Sunkara (Editors)
    Europe in Revolt! - by Catarina PrĂ­ncipe and Bhaskar Sunkara (Editors)

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781608465934 | ISBN 10: 1608465934

    A gripping and authoritative account of the uprisings against extreme austerity that have shaken Europe.   In Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain the debt crisis that began with the 2008 global recession helped trigger severe austerity measur ... more

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  • Cover image of book The 13th Labour of Hercules: Inside the Greek Crisis by Yannis Palaiologos
    The 13th Labour of Hercules: Inside the Greek Crisis - by Yannis Palaiologos

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781846276248 | ISBN 10: 1846276241

    Since the revelation of its massive hidden deficit in late 2009, Greece has been at the centre of the world's attention. Observers around the globe have watched with morbid fascination as the country has repeatedly flirted with political and financia ... more

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  • Cover image of book Podemos: In the Name of the People by Inigo Errejon in conversation with Chantal Mouffe
    Podemos: In the Name of the People - by Inigo Errejon in conversation with Chantal Mouffe

    £10.00   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781910448809 | ISBN 10: 191044880x

    The rise of Podemos in Spain is part of a wave of European left political initiatives that are putting forward new ideas for change and innovative ways of thinking about politics. The traditional left in Europe has been in difficulties for some time ... more

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  • Cover image of book Can the Welfare State Survive? by Andrew Gamble
    Can the Welfare State Survive? - by Andrew Gamble

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780745698748 | ISBN 10: 0745698743

    After the most serious economic crash since the 1930s and the slowest recovery on record, austerity rules. Spending on the welfare state did not cause the crisis, but deep cuts in welfare budgets has become the default policy response. The welfare st ... more

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  • Cover image of book Austerity Bites: A Journey to the Sharp End of Cuts in the UK by Mary O
    Austerity Bites: A Journey to the Sharp End of Cuts in the UK - by Mary O'Hara

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781447315704 | ISBN 10: 1447315707

    After coming to power in May 2010, the Coalition government in the United Kingdom embarked on a drastic programme of cuts to public spending and introduced a raft of austerity measures that had profoundly damaging effects on much of the population. T ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Money Crisis: How Bankers Grabbed Our Money - and How We Can Get it Back by Peter Stalker
    The Money Crisis: How Bankers Grabbed Our Money - and How We Can Get it Back - by Peter Stalker

    £7.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780262413 | ISBN 10: 1780262418

    A combination of deregulation, incompetence and greed create has created the conditions for boom and bust.  This concise book not only provides an understanding of these factors but also offers strategies for taking them out of the equation, so ... more

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  • Cover image of book Against the Troika: Crisis and Austerity in the Eurozone by Heiner Flassbeck and Costas Lapavitsas
    Against the Troika: Crisis and Austerity in the Eurozone - by Heiner Flassbeck and Costas Lapavitsas

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781784783136 | ISBN 10: 1784783137

    A radical anti-capitalist alternative to Eurozone austerity.  On the 25th January 2015 the Greek people voted in an election of historic importance — not just for Greece but potentially all of Europe. The radical party Syriza was elected and au ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy by Yanis Varoufakis
    The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy - by Yanis Varoufakis

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781783606108 | ISBN 10: 178360610x

    In this remarkable and provocative book, Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis explodes the myth that financialisation, ineffectual regulation of banks, greed and globalisation were the root causes of both the Eurozone crisis and the global economi ... more

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  • Cover image of book Austerity: The Great Failure by Florian Schui
    Austerity: The Great Failure - by Florian Schui

    £10.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780300212778 | ISBN 10: 0300212771

    Austerity is at the center of political debates today. Its defenders praise it as a panacea that will prepare the ground for future growth and stability. Critics insist it will precipitate a vicious cycle of economic decline, possibly leading to poli ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Cost of Living Crisis: Time to End Economic Injustice by Michael Calderbank
    The Cost of Living Crisis: Time to End Economic Injustice - by Michael Calderbank

    £9.95   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781871204292 | ISBN 10: 1871204291

    End the failed austerity programme.   The coalition government of 2010–15 claimed it tackled the abuse of the welfare state and restored employment levels. In reality, this meant appalling hardship for the most vulnerable and cuts in living st ... more

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  • Cover image of book Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Blyth
    Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea - by Mark Blyth

    £10.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780199389445 | ISBN 10: 0199389446

    Conservatives in America have succeeded in casting government spending as useless profligacy that has made their economy worse, centering the policy debate in the wake of the financial crisis on draconian budget cuts. Americans are told that they nee ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hard Times: Inequality, Recession, Aftermath by Tom Clark with Anthony Heath
    Hard Times: Inequality, Recession, Aftermath - by Tom Clark with Anthony Heath

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780300212747 | ISBN 10: 0300212747

    2008 was a watershed year for global finance. The banking system was eventually pulled back from the brink, but the world was saddled with the worst slump since the 1930s Depression, and millions were left unemployed. While numerous books have addres ... more

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  • Cover image of book Austerity: The Demolition of the Welfare State and the Rise of the Zombie Economy by Kerry-Anne Mendoza
    Austerity: The Demolition of the Welfare State and the Rise of the Zombie Economy - by Kerry-Anne Mendoza

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780262468 | ISBN 10: 1780262469

    Wages have been frozen, benefits have been slashed and public spending squeezed. The pain of a financial crisis caused by bankers and speculators has been borne by ordinary people all over the country – and by the poor and disabled most of all.  ... more

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  • Cover image of book The End of the World as We Know it? Crisis, Resistance, and the Age of Austerity by Deric Shannon (Editor)
    The End of the World as We Know it? Crisis, Resistance, and the Age of Austerity - by Deric Shannon (Editor)

    £18.95   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781849351867 | ISBN 10: 1849351864

    The End of the World as We Know It? explores the origins and effects of the capitalist crisis that began in 2008. It moves on to examine the responses of both the dispossessed and the ruling classes to the catastrophe, giving special attention to stu ... more

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  • Cover image of book Remapping
    Remapping 'Crisis': A Guide to Athens - by Myrto Tsilimpounidi and Aylwyn Walsh

    £15.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781780996059 | ISBN 10: 1780996055

    In periods of intense crisis the pressing need to take sides comes to the surface and trumps neutrality. The claim to objectivity, always a little problematic, can no longer be sustained, and becomes itself a ground of confrontation as the conflicts ... more

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  • Cover image of book Supercrash: How to Hijack the Global Economy by Darryl Cunningham
    Supercrash: How to Hijack the Global Economy - by Darryl Cunningham

    £14.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781908434432 | ISBN 10: 1908434430

    Darryl Cunningham’s latest investigation takes us to the heart of free-world politics and the financial crisis, as he traces the roots of bankrupt countries to the domination of right-wing policies and the people who created them.   Cunningham ... more

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  • Cover image of book Harry
    Harry's Last Stand: How the World My Generation Built is Falling Down, and What We Can Do to Save It - by Harry Leslie Smith

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781848317369 | ISBN 10: 1848317360

    ‘As one of the last remaining survivors of the Great Depression and the Second World War, I will not go gently into that good night. I want to tell you what the world looks like through my eyes, so that you can help change it...’  In November 2013 ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Body Economic: Eight Experiments in Economic Recovery, from Iceland to Greece by David Stuckler and Sanjay Basu
    The Body Economic: Eight Experiments in Economic Recovery, from Iceland to Greece - by David Stuckler and Sanjay Basu

    £9.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780141976020 | ISBN 10: 0141976020

    The Body Economic puts forward a radical proposition. Austerity, it argues, is seriously bad for your health. We can prevent financial crises from becoming epidemics, but to do so, we must acknowledge what the hard data tells us: that, throughout his ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hard Times: The Divisive Toll of the Economic Slump by Tom Clark with Anthony Heath
    Hard Times: The Divisive Toll of the Economic Slump - by Tom Clark with Anthony Heath

    £18.99   hardback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780300203776 | ISBN 10: 0300203772

    2008 was a watershed year for global finance. The banking system was eventually pulled back from the brink, but the world was saddled with the worst slump since the 1930s Depression, and millions were left unemployed. While numerous books have addres ... more

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  • Cover image of book How Capitalism Failed the Arab World by Richard Javad Heydarian
    How Capitalism Failed the Arab World - by Richard Javad Heydarian

    £13.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781780329574 | ISBN 10: 1780329571

    Economic liberalization has failed in the Arab world. Instead of ushering in economic dynamism and precipitating democratic reform, it has over the last three decades resulted in greater poverty, rising income inequality and sky-rocketing rates of yo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown by Philip Mirowski
    Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown - by Philip Mirowski

    £22.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781781683026 | ISBN 10: 1781683026

    After the financial apocalypse, neoliberalism rose from the dead — stronger than ever.  At the onset of the Great Recession, as house prices sank and joblessness soared, many commentators concluded that the economic convictions behind the disaster w ... more

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  • Cover image of book Against Austerity: How We Can Fix the Crisis They Made by Richard Seymour
    Against Austerity: How We Can Fix the Crisis They Made - by Richard Seymour

    £17.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780745333281 | ISBN 10: 0745333281

    Five years into capitalism's deepest crisis, which has led to cuts and economic pain across the world, Against Austerity addresses a puzzling aspect of the current conjuncture: why are the rich still getting away with it? Why is protest so ephemeral? ... more

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  • Cover image of book Crucible of Resistance: Greece, the Eurozone and the World Economic Crisis by Christos Laskos and Euclid Tsakalotos
    Crucible of Resistance: Greece, the Eurozone and the World Economic Crisis - by Christos Laskos and Euclid Tsakalotos

    £17.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780745333809 | ISBN 10: 074533380x

    Crucible of Resistance seeks to challenge the mainstream account of the 'Greek Crisis' and situate it within a broader regional context and ultimately a critique of the world economic system.   Christos Laskos and Euclid Tsakalotos argue that ... more

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  • Cover image of book Austerity Ireland: The Failure of Irish Capitalism by Kieran Allen and Brian O
    Austerity Ireland: The Failure of Irish Capitalism - by Kieran Allen and Brian O' Boyle

    £18.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780745334011 | ISBN 10: 0745334016

    Ireland has been marketed as the poster boy of EU austerity. EU elites and neoliberal commentators claim that the country’s ability to suffer economic pain will attract investors and generate a recovery.   In Austerity Ireland, Kieran Allen ch ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Great Eurozone Disaster: From Crisis to Global New Deal by Heikki Patomäki
    The Great Eurozone Disaster: From Crisis to Global New Deal - by Heikki Patomäki

    £13.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781780324784 | ISBN 10: 1780324782

    The last couple of years have seen the eurozone lurch from crisis to calamity. With Greece, Portugal and Ireland already driven to the brink of economic catastrophe, and the threat that a number of other EU countries are soon to follow, the consequen ... more

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  • Cover image of book It
    It's the Political Economy, Stupid: The Global Financial Crisis in Art and Theory - by Gregory Sholette and Oliver Ressler (Editors)

    £26.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780745333694 | ISBN 10: 0745333699

    It’s the Political Economy, Stupid brings together internationally acclaimed artists and thinkers, including Slavoj Žižek, David Graeber, Judith Butler and Brian Holmes, to focus on the current economic crisis in a sustained and critical manner. &nb ... more

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  • Cover image of book Greece: What is to be Done? by Karl Heinz Roth
    Greece: What is to be Done? - by Karl Heinz Roth

    £9.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781780998244 | ISBN 10: 1780998244

    Greece: What is to be Done? analyzes the Greek debt crisis, the multilateral austerity countermeasures, and offers alternatives to the socioeconomic destruction of Greece and the Eurozone. ... more

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  • Cover image of book End This Depression Now! by Paul Krugman
    End This Depression Now! - by Paul Krugman

    £12.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780393345087 | ISBN 10: 0393345084

    The Great Recession is more than four years old — and counting. Yet, as Nobel Prize winning author Paul Krugman argues in this powerful new book, "Nations rich in resources, talent, and knowledge — all the ingredients for prosperity and a decent stan ... more

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  • Cover image of book Social Work and Social Policy Under Austerity by Bill Jordan and Mark Drakeford
    Social Work and Social Policy Under Austerity - by Bill Jordan and Mark Drakeford

    £30.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781137020635 | ISBN 10: 1137020636

    What has the contemporary financial context meant for social policy, social work and the relationship between them? Examining the role of political, economic and societal forces, this lively book uses a full range of supportive features to encourage ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Violence of Financial Capitalism by Christian Marazzi, translated by Kristina Lebedeva
    The Violence of Financial Capitalism - by Christian Marazzi, translated by Kristina Lebedeva

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781584351023 | ISBN 10: 1584351020

    This first English-language edition of Christian Marazzi’s most recent book, The Violence of Financial Capitalism, makes a groundbreaking work on the global financial crisis available to a new audience of readers.   Marazzi, a leading figure in th ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Better World is Possible by Bruce Nixon
    A Better World is Possible - by Bruce Nixon

    £14.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781846945144 | ISBN 10: 1846945143

    This book is about the global environmental and economic crisis. It challenges the whole global economic system and its underlying beliefs, assumptions and values. We need a complete system transformation, a paradigm shift. This requires holistic and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Theatre Uncut: The Anthology by Various authors
    Theatre Uncut: The Anthology - by Various authors

    £14.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781849430630 | ISBN 10: 1849430632

    Across the UK thousands of people are involved in protests and debates, sparked into action by the largest cuts to publicspending since WWII – cuts which are the turning point of a generation, undermining the welfare state, higher education and the a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Assault on Universities: A Manifesto for Resistance by Michael Bailey and Des Freedman
    The Assault on Universities: A Manifesto for Resistance - by Michael Bailey and Des Freedman

    £21.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780745331911 | ISBN 10: 0745331912

    With funding cuts well under way and many institutions already promising to charge the maximum Ł9,000 yearly tuition fee, university education for the majority is under threat. This book exposes the true motives behind the government's programme and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Aftershock: Reshaping the World Economy After the Crisis by Philippe Legrain
    Aftershock: Reshaping the World Economy After the Crisis - by Philippe Legrain

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780349122755 | ISBN 10: 034912275x

    The financial crisis brought the world to the brink. But now bankers’ bonuses are back, house prices are rising again and politicians promise recovery. Is this really sustainable - or do we need to change course?   In this incisive asse ... more

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  • Cover image of book Them and Us: Changing Britain - Why We Need a Fair Society by Will Hutton
    Them and Us: Changing Britain - Why We Need a Fair Society - by Will Hutton

    £10.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780349121482 | ISBN 10: 0349121486

    The suddenness and depth of the recession has raised questions about the workability of capitalism not seen since the 1930s. One of the constraints on recovery is the growing belief that if the old model did not work there is no new one on offer. Thi ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism by David Harvey
    The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism - by David Harvey

    £10.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781846683091 | ISBN 10: 1846683092

    Radical sociologist David Harvey explains how capitalism came to dominate the world, why it resulted in the current financial crisis - and why it's time for a change.  For three centuries the capitalist system has shaped western society, ... more

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  • Cover image of book NO CUTS - FULL STOP! Capitalist Crisis and the Public Sector Debt by Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!
    NO CUTS - FULL STOP! Capitalist Crisis and the Public Sector Debt - by Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!

    £1.95      (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780905400242 | ISBN 10: 0905400240

    The ConDem coalition has declared class war, utilising the deepest crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s to continue the class offensive that began in the 1980s. State welfare is facing massive cuts; benefits are being slashed; thousands of ... more

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  • Cover image of book Low Pay? Don
    Low Pay? Don't Pay! - by Dario Fo

    £10.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781408131039 | ISBN 10: 140813103x

    An uproarious new version of Dario Fo’s frenetic farce Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay! which, although set in Italy, has an all too familiar ring to it.   Housewives Antonia and Margherita, fed up with high prices in the supermarket, take matters i ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Feckin
    The Feckin' Book of Bankers, Builders, Blaggers and Bowsies That Banjaxed the Nation - by Colin Murphy and Donal O'Dea

    £7.50   hardback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781847172419 | ISBN 10: 1847172415

    If you thought ‘Double-Dip’ was a move in dancing, and ‘Downsizing’ was losing the few extra pounds you’d put on after the Christmas, you haven’t been keeping up with the jargon and double-speak that covers up the parlous state of the country and the ... more

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