Manchester University Press Book Series

Series Editors

Andreas Bieler (University of Nottingham), Gareth Bryant (University of Sydney), Mònica Clua-Losada (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley), Adam David Morton (University of Sydney), and Angela Wigger (Radboud University, The Netherlands).

Progress in Political Economy (PPE) Book Series

Since its launch in 2014, the Progress in Political Economy (PPE) blog has become a central forum for the dissemination and debate of political economy research published in book and journal article forms with crossover appeal to academic, activist and public policy related audiences.

Now the Progress in Political Economy (PPE) Book Series with Manchester University Press provides a new space for innovative and radical thinking in political economy, covering interdisciplinary scholarship from the perspectives of critical political economy, historical materialism, feminism, political ecology, critical geography, heterodox economics, decolonialism and racial capitalism.

The PPE Book Series combines the reputations and reach of the PPE blog and MUP as a publisher to launch critical political economy research and debates. Authors in the series will gain immediate and wide exposure for their work by publishing posts and excerpts on the blog and readers will have opportunities to review and debate books in dedicated online forums.

We welcome manuscripts that realise the very best new research from established scholars and early-career scholars alike that emphasise:

• the contestations and radical ruptures of capitalist exploitation and appropriation with a focus on transformative alternatives beyond capitalism;
• the appropriation of non-human nature within the epoch of the Anthropocene / Capitalocene;
• the role of social reproduction and gendered unpaid labour as a crucial pillar of capitalist value creation;
• the centrality of race to the history and ongoing generation of capital accumulation necessitating a decolonisation of political economy frames of analysis;
• the multi-scalar dimensions of social movements and grassroots organisations contesting the expansion of capitalism;
• the production of space across the urban and rural divide through circuits of capital and its expression and resistance in architecture, literature, art and culture;
• the constitution of non-capitalist spaces (e.g. the commons), including indigenous economic formations;
• the transnational conditions of labour struggles from the shop floor to digital platforms, their diverse institutional expressions;
• the subsumption of capitalist production to financial and asset/debt-based logics and new terrains of exploitation, crisis and contestation;
• the contradictory transformations of neoliberal capitalism and the rise of authoritarian neoliberalism and fascism;
• the history of economic thought encompassing its pluralist, radical and heterodox traditions;
• the production of new axes of inequalities of income, wealth and risk within systemic and unfolding processes of uneven development;
• the new contours of monetary, fiscal, social and environmental policy being enacted at multiple scales by national, regional and city governments, central banks and other domains of state investment and regulation; and,
• the transformative role of new technologies, the merger between technology and finance, and new forms of oppression through surveillance capitalism.

The Series Editors provide rich intellectual and geographical reach and interested authors seeking to publish in the book series should contact any of the Editors and/or the Commissioning Editor at MUP Robert Byron. Authors should also consult the Manchester University Press proposal guidelines.

      

 

False profits of ethical capital: Finance, labour and the politics of risk

Claire Parfitt | September 3, 2024

At stake in the machinations between global asset managers, the firms they invest in, and regulators is the core question of what environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing really does and its function at the frontiers of contemporary capital accumulation. This is the question [...]

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Capitalism in contemporary Iran: Capital accumulation, state formation and geopolitics

Kayhan Valadbaygi | February 22, 2024

In my recently published book, Capitalism in Contemporary Iran: Capital accumulation, State Formation, and Geopolitics, by Manchester University Press in the Progress in Political Economy (PPE) Series, I offer an alternative narrative to state formation in Iran grounded in a historical [...]

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Water Struggles as Resistance to Neoliberal Capitalism: a time of reproductive unrest

Madelaine Moore | December 19, 2023

What is the water crisis’ relationship to the ecological crisis? To the crisis of social reproduction? Or the crises of political legitimacy? And could it be a potential crisis for capitalism? These are all questions that animate my new book Water Struggles as Resistance to Neoliberal [...]

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Imperialism and the Development Myth: How the rich Countries Dominate in the Twenty-First Century

Sam King | October 28, 2021

For decades the concept of “imperialism” all but disappeared from popular discourse and academic writing in the rich countries. It was an idea that used to be dominated by Marxist thinkers until the 1970s, but even among Marxists – at least in academia – the concept has rarely been seen as [...]

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Keynes and Marx

Bill Dunn | August 17, 2021

My new book Keynes and Marx attempts a constructive Marxist engagement with Keynes and Keynesianism. I’ll explain what I mean by this and how the book tries to achieve it. Three attitudes dominate Marx-Keynes relations. I argue for a fourth.

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