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Mike McCarthy Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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@marquetteu prof. Author of Dismantling Solidarity, 2017. @VersoBooks ms in progress. Editor @critsoc. Likes: economic democracy, social theory, 2x2 tables.

15 books
Book Cover for: What Does the Ruling Class Do When It Rules?: State Apparatuses and State Power Under Feudalism, Capitalism and Socialism, Goran Therborn

What Does the Ruling Class Do When It Rules?: State Apparatuses and State Power Under Feudalism, Capitalism and Socialism

Goran Therborn
Mike McCarthyMike McCarthy

@bo_austin_ @TiltingatM3 Goran Therborn makes a similar point in "What Does the Ruling Class do When it Rules?" so thought it might have been that.

Paperback, 2008

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Contentious Politics (Revised), Charles Tilly

Contentious Politics (Revised)

Charles Tilly
Mike McCarthyMike McCarthy

I once reached out to Charles Tilly to spark a conversation about contentious politics. IIRC we had a useful exchange. Then he sent me this nearly 40 page (funnily) annotated bibliography on political identity. Maybe of use to someone, 15+ years later: https://t.co/ZbaBJ93TjD

Paperback, 2015

$52.00$27.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Book Cover for: Beyond Capital: Marx's Political Economy of the Working Class, M. Lebowitz

Beyond Capital: Marx's Political Economy of the Working Class

M. Lebowitz
Mike McCarthyMike McCarthy

@BigMeanInternet @freedaaron By the way, have you read Michael A. Lebowitz's "Beyond Capital: Marx’s Political Economy of the Working Class"? It lays out the argument you are implicitly making in detail. It's useful! But doesn't invalidate Wright imo.

Paperback, 2003

$99.99$74.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Book Cover for: First-Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers, Richard Lachmann

First-Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers

Richard Lachmann
Mike McCarthyMike McCarthy

@nils_gilman Have your read Richard Lachmann? ...Also big causal arguments also about elites in world history. See Capitalists in Spite of Themselves and First Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship.

Paperback, 2024

$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Classes, Erik Olin Wright

Classes

Erik Olin Wright
Mike McCarthyMike McCarthy

@Leigh_Phillips Marx explicitly understood this crucial aspect of class, I should say. And it is something that people that do class analysis also recognize today. See Erik Olin Wright's Classes, for instance.

Paperback, 2023

$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Systemic Corruption: Constitutional Ideas for an Anti-Oligarchic Republic, Camila Vergara

Systemic Corruption: Constitutional Ideas for an Anti-Oligarchic Republic

Camila Vergara
Mike McCarthyMike McCarthy

Constitutionalizing “plebeian power” from Systemic Corruption (2020) by @Camila_Vergara https://t.co/9Mn9Fah4tV

Paperback, 2022

$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Years, Annie Ernaux

The Years

Annie Ernaux
Mike McCarthyMike McCarthy

“Mitterrand’s re-election restored our tranquility. Far better to live without expectations under the left than in constant fury under the right.” The Years, Annie Ernaux

Paperback, 2017

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Promise of Politics, Hannah Arendt

The Promise of Politics

Hannah Arendt
Mike McCarthyMike McCarthy

Hannah Arendt on the centrality of agonistic pluralism in the Ancient Greek concept of the political in The Promise of Politics https://t.co/GkCPt4KCOd

Paperback, 2007

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Participation and Democratic Theory, Carole Pateman

Participation and Democratic Theory

Carole Pateman
Mike McCarthyMike McCarthy

Carole Pateman's Participation and Democratic Theory is indispensable. It is the best refutation of the weak/thin Schumpeterian view of democracy that remains the common sense. It is coupled well with Bernard Manin's The Principles of Representative Democracy.

Paperback, 1976

$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Freer Markets, More Rules, Steven K. Vogel

Freer Markets, More Rules

Steven K. Vogel
Mike McCarthyMike McCarthy

@nils_gilman Reminds me of the title of the Steve Vogel book, "Freer Markets, More Rules"

Paperback, 1998

$33.95$16.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book