This book is about the global crisis and the right to resistance, about neoliberal biopolitics and direct democracy, about the responsibility of intellectuals and the poetry of the multitude. Using Greece as an example, Douzinas argues that the persistent sequence of protests, u…
On Friday, December 10, 2010, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders walked on to the floor of the United States Senate and began speaking. It turned out to be a very long speech, lasting over eight and a half hours. And it hit a nerve. Millions followed the speech online until the traf…
"Debunking Economics exposes what many non-economists may have suspected and a minority of economists have long known: that economic theory is not only unpalatable, but also plain wrong. When the original Debunking was published back in 2001, the market economy seemed invincible…
El planteamiento "tolerante" del multiculturalista elude la pregunta decisiva: ¿cómo reinventar el espacio político en las actuales condiciones de globalización? Politizar las distintas luchas particulares dejando intacto el proceso global del Capital, resulta sin duda insuficie…
In this topical book, Boudewijn de Bruin examines the ethical 'blind spots' that lay at the heart of the global financial crisis. He argues that the most important moral problem in finance is not the 'greed is good' culture, but rather the epistemic shortcomings of bankers, clie…
"Nothing Is True and Everything is Possible is a journey into the glittering, surreal heart of 21st century Russia: into the lives of oligarchs convinced they are messiahs, professional killers with the souls of artists, Bohemian theater directors turned Kremlin puppet-masters, …
La crisis económica y social ha tenido un impacto devastador en los derechos sociales y económicos. Estos derechos que antes de la crisis ya eran ignorados por los que diseñan las políticas económicas continuan siéndolo en la actual "epoca de austeridad". La respuesta a la crisi…
An account of the federally ignored economic slump of 1920-1921 challenges the Keynesian stimulus responses to the 2007-2009 recession, arguing that federal interventions after the 1929 crash extended the Great Depression.
Europe has not been so weak and divided for a long time. Buffeted by a succession of crises, it has shown a strong collective survival instinct but a poor capacity to deliver. In times when the tectonic plates are shifting and tension between global markets and national democrac…
by Yongnian, Zheng, Tong, Sarah Y.
fromSeries on contemporary China
