Posts Tagged ‘Neil Smith’

The Ideology of Nature in Butcher’s Crossing

December 3, 2014

Despite the huge and belated praise now surrounding John Williams’ novel Stoner (1965), much less attention has been cast to his earlier novel, Butcher’s Crossing (1960). Still, it’s been rightly hailed as part of a pantheon of western masterpieces alongside Cormac McCarthy’s Blood [...]

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Piketty Digest #6: The Capital/Income Ratio over the Long Run

August 19, 2014

With all the furore surrounding Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century my aim here is to carry a weekly focus on the book reblogged from For the Desk Drawer. The purpose is modest. There is already in existence some rather excellent coverage and detailed engagement with the book [...]

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Why Study Political Economy?

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Three Theories of Underdevelopment

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What is Constructivism For?

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Coronavirus, Crisis and the End of Neoliberalism

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Philip Mirowski, ‘Polanyi vs Hayek?’

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Marxist Theories of Imperialism

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10 talking points from Jason W. Moore’s ‘Capitalism in the Web of Life’

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Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch

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Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Enzo Faletto, Dependency and Development in Latin America

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For a Marxist Critique of Eurocentrism, or Refusing to Throw the Baby out with the Bath Water