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This book is a major new history of capitalism that takes account of the material and ecological underpinnings of productive activity as well as th...

East Asia has re-emerged after a long eclipse as a centre of world wealth creation and growth. Over the past four decades the region’s share of wor...

East Asia has re-emerged after a long eclipse as a centre of world wealth creation and growth. Over the past four decades the region’s share of wor...

In this important new book, Jacques Derrida talks with Bernard Stiegler about the effect of teletechnologies on our philosophical and political mom...

In this important new book, Jacques Derrida talks with Bernard Stiegler about the effect of teletechnologies on our philosophical and political mom...

Russia’s war on Ukraine has not only destroyed millions of human lives, it has also been catastrophic for the environment. Forests and fields have ...

Russia’s war on Ukraine has not only destroyed millions of human lives, it has also been catastrophic for the environment. Forests and fields have ...

In this thoroughly revised and updated second edition of the highly successful Ecological Ethics, Patrick Curry shows that a new and truly ecologic...

In this thoroughly revised and updated second edition of the highly successful Ecological Ethics, Patrick Curry shows that a new and truly ecologic...

Ecological Politics in and Age of Risk by Ulrich Beck is an original analysis of ecological politics as one part of a renewed engagement with the d...

This book offers a new introduction to the implications of ecology for social and political thought, arguing for green ideas to be taken seriously ...

This book introduces green ideas to students of the social sciences, showing how society affects and is affected by nature and assessing the future...

Is climate catastrophe inevitable? In a world of extreme inequality, rising nationalism and mounting carbon emissions, the future looks gloomy. Yet...

Is climate catastrophe inevitable? In a world of extreme inequality, rising nationalism and mounting carbon emissions, the future looks gloomy. Yet...

Has the revolution that led from the economy of the gift, characteristic of most precapitalist societies, to the economy of modern societies been a...

This book is a new introduction to the history and practice of economic anthropology by two leading authors in the field. They show that anthropolo...

This book is a new introduction to the history and practice of economic anthropology by two leading authors in the field. They show that anthropolo...

Social relations are crucial for understanding diverse economic actions and a network perspective is central to that explanation. Simple exchange...

Social relations are crucial for understanding diverse economic actions and a network perspective is central to that explanation. Simple exchange...

Economics used to be called political economy, and the loss of the “political” tracks the ascendance of the idea of rational choice within the disc...

Economics used to be called political economy, and the loss of the “political” tracks the ascendance of the idea of rational choice within the disc...

Traditionally, economists have attributed consistency and rational calculation to the action of ‘economic man’. In a powerful challenge to orthodox...

Few figures are more crucial to understanding the upheavals of our contemporary era than Karl Polanyi. In a world riven by social and economic cris...

Few figures are more crucial to understanding the upheavals of our contemporary era than Karl Polanyi. In a world riven by social and economic cris...