I published a book in 1997 – Capitalism and Democracy in the Third World. Now The Politics of Global Competitiveness is the sequel. The first one was a critique of what was known as political development theory, arguing that it was entirely ideological in character. While writing it, I had [...]
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Werner Bonefeld, The Strong State and the Free Economy, Rowman & Littlefield International: London and New York, 2017 (Hbk £85, Pbk £27.95, Ebook £27.99).
Werner Bonefeld has produced an indispensable guide to ordoliberal thought and its relevance to [...]
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How the West Came to Rule is an ambitious book that has three related components – a critique of existing accounts of the emergence of capitalism as Eurocentric, an alternative approach based on Trotsky’s concept of uneven and combined development (UCD), and a series of empirical [...]
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Lucia Pradella’s book Globalisation and the Critique of Political Economy advances the argument that ‘Marx’s notebooks are … of the highest importance for understanding the scope and approach of his critique of political economy. They provide evidence that, if “the [...]
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You might think, at first sight, that Werner Bonefeld’s book Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy is not for you, especially if you dive into the introduction unprepared. Think again. There is more than one way into it, and from the formidable theoretical apparatus and [...]
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Two spectres haunt this thoughtful and thought-provoking collection. The first, prominent throughout, is the spectre of transnational business feminism: the book directly addresses the dismal prospect that however questionable its foundations, it will play a part in rescuing neoliberalism [...]
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