Book Reviews and Media Mentions

Academic Reviews:

Review by Scott MacWilliam, 7/14/2023

Review by Robert Hunter Wade, 11/21/2022

Italian Review by Davide Villani, 8/1/2023

Review by Nicholas Toloudis, 11/1/2023

Review by Jamin Andreas Hübner, 6/29/2023

Review by Conte, Giampaulo, February 2023.

Review by Alejandro Roselli, 3/15/2023

French Review by Jean-Christophe Catalon, 4/1/2023

Austerity Is an Antidemocratic Strategy to Boost CapitalAusterity policies have their roots in efforts by economic elites to crush working-class power after WWI and redistribute income upward. To reverse austerity, democratic control over economic policymaking is essential.

Martin Wolf of the Financial Times listed The Capital Order as one of his Best Economics Books of 2022!

Noam Chomsky: Another World Is Possible. Let’s Bring It to Reality.Labor and other popular activism can help shape the economic system in ways that will benefit people, not private power.

Fascism’s liberal admirersAusterity is a fiction designed to uphold capitalism – and it has a dark history.

Discipline the poor, protect the rich – it’s the same old Tories, same old class war | Aditya ChakraborttyBrexit didn’t change the party: austerity was as heartless under Cameron and Osborne as it is under Sunak, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

Maeve Higgins: Contradictions of capitalism mean that workers must stay weakMaeve Higgins: Contradictions of capitalism mean that workers must stay weak: A comprehensive series of articles on this topic

The magic of physics, and why we have childhood: Books in briefAndrew Robinson reviews five of the best science picks.

The invention of austerity<p>Dramatic economic inflations have punctuated twentieth-century political history. Is austerity a class strategy?</p>

Maeve Higgins: Contradictions of capitalism mean that workers must stay weakMaeve Higgins: Contradictions of capitalism mean that workers must stay weak: A comprehensive series of articles on this topic

What Was Capitalism? | by James Livingston - Project SyndicateJames Livingston asks whether those at the commanding heights of today's economy are steering us toward feudalism or fatuousness.

Inventing austerityClick on the article title to read more.

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Chartbook #166: 1922/2022 - The centenary of Mussolini's "March on Rome" and the dilemmas of the liberal expert class. 100 years ago Mussolini’s fascists - the movement that first defined the political brand - staged their much ballyhooed “March on Rome” and completed a tumultuous four-year journey that brought Mussolini to power, first as Prime Minister and then, from 1925, as Il Duce - the authoritarian leader of a one-party state. Often treated as the diminutive little brother of Nazism, Mussolini’s fascism was, in fact, the archetype of a new style of authoritarianism. It was a new, modern form of power and as such it also initiated a new and disturbing cooperation between power and expert knowledge. We tend to think of the interwar period as the incubator of the New Deal and the “postwar welfare state”, which brought to power new kinds of expertise, above all Keynesian economics. But, as Clara Mattei of the New School shows us in a

Book Review: The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism - Jamin Andreas Hübner, 2023

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