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Quinn Slobodian Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Quinn Slobodian is a historian. CRACK-UP CAPITALISM out now from Metropolitan, Penguin. Soon from Suhrkamp, Seuil: https://t.co/xuFq8qQSfz

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Book Cover for: Uncommon Wealth: You Are Your Best Asset - Invest in Yourself!, Bryan Dewhurst

Uncommon Wealth: You Are Your Best Asset - Invest in Yourself!

Bryan Dewhurst
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Thursday Apr 6 at @HarvardCES: @KojoKoram on his brilliant book Uncommon Wealth https://t.co/qEYC9hdgbN https://t.co/o5by9uIoZA

Hardcover, 2021

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism, Clara E. Mattei

The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism

Clara E. Mattei
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probably a good week to start reading @claraemattei's book on interwar British and Italian fiscal policy and the road to fascism...

Paperback, 2025

$22.50$11.25 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire: Europe and the Transformation of the Tropical World, Corey Ross

Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire: Europe and the Transformation of the Tropical World

Corey Ross
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Interesting from Corey Ross in Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire. Has anyone else in recent memory deployed “the tropics” as synonym for global South? https://t.co/AfA7qZbswK

Paperback, 2019

$38.99$19.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Blazing the Neoliberal Trail: Urban Political Development in the United States and the United Kingdom, Timothy P. R. Weaver

Blazing the Neoliberal Trail: Urban Political Development in the United States and the United Kingdom

Timothy P. R. Weaver
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Great piece by author of the excellent “Blazing the Neoliberal Trail” on urban policy, @tprweaver https://t.co/mXQ4BKnSs9

Hardcover, 2016

$90.00$65.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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Book Cover for: Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948, Ramachandra Guha

Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948

Ramachandra Guha
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Excellent piece by Ramachandra Guha for @FT on recent (and long-standing) Hindu nationalist campaigns against Gandhi https://t.co/YHM2WGjSC3

Paperback, 2019

$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It?, Brett Christophers

Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It?

Brett Christophers
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Shout to the “niche entity” @Cmmonwealth in Brett Christophers’s Rentier Capitalism https://t.co/j1QPBoFKce

Paperback, 2022

$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Eugenics: A Reassessment, Richard Lynn

Eugenics: A Reassessment

Richard Lynn
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Most startling archival discovery was that Ralph Harris, general director of the @iealondon for thirty years, proposed founding a “Francis Galton Institute of Human Motivation” with race scientist Richard Lynn. They even considered taking over the British Eugenics Society…

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Book Cover for: No Globalization Without Representation: U.S. Activists and World Inequality, Paul Adler

No Globalization Without Representation: U.S. Activists and World Inequality

Paul Adler
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Finally in print, my review of @padlerman's excellent No Globalization Without Representation that maps out the post-NIEO alter-globalization network from the 70s to the 90s, Penang to Geneva to DC--relevant for the anniversary of the Iraq War too. https://t.co/H3u0qecp3K https://t.co/RSu19m35Aq

Paperback, 2025

$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism, Andreas Malm

White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism

Andreas Malm
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Malm and the @ZetkinCo had an answer to this in White Skin, Black Fuel https://t.co/q8ZbCJpi1Y

Paperback, 2021

$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Imperialism: A Study of the History, Politics and Economics of the Colonial Powers in Europe and America (Hardcover), J. A. Hobson

Imperialism: A Study of the History, Politics and Economics of the Colonial Powers in Europe and America (Hardcover)

J. A. Hobson
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@JohnPatLeary @TeenVogue First page of Hobson’s Imperialism seems apt: “shifty, elusive…demands the closest vigilance.” https://t.co/52F7KNO8TB

Hardcover, 2018

$30.99$15.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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