Capital

Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy

Karl Marx

We just realized that it's weird that we have a bunch of books on Capital but not this badboy himself! Hailed by Friedrich Engels as "the bible of the working class" (he...

Back to Full Employment

Robert Pollin

Full employment used to be an explicit goal of economic policy in most of the industrialized world. Some countries even achieved it. In Back to Full Employment, economist Robert Pollin...

From Solidarity to Sellout

The Restoration of Capitalism in Poland

Tadeusz Kowalik

In the 1980s and 90s, renowned Polish economist Tadeusz Kowalik played a leading role in the Solidarity movement, struggling alongside workers for an alternative to “really-existing socialism” that...

An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx's "Capital"

Michael Heinrich

The global economic crisis and recession that began in 2008 had at least one unexpected outcome: a surge in sales of Karl Marx’s Capital. Although mainstream economists and...

Dreaming in Public

Building the Occupy Movement

Amy Schrager Lang

Since September 2011, the Occupy movement has captured the world's imagination. The media has been flooded with accounts of demonstrations, descriptions of the encampments, interviews with...

Marx's "Das Kapital" For Beginners

Michael Wayne

Marx’s Das Kapital cannot be put into a box marked “economics.” It is a work of politics, history, economics, philosophy and even in places, literature....

The Resilience Imperative

Cooperative Transitions to a Steady-State Economy

Michael Lewis

We find ourselves between a rock and a hot place—compelled by the intertwined forces of peak oil and climate change to reinvent our economic life at a much more local and regional scale. The...

Economics Unmasked

From Power and Greed to Compassion and the Common Good

Philip B. Smith

The economic system under which we live not only forces the great majority of humankind to live their lives in indignity and poverty; it also threatens all forms of life—indeed life itself....

The Anti-Capitalist Resistance Comic Book

Gord Hill

In recent years the world has borne witness to numerous confrontations, many of them violent, between protesters and authorities at pivotal gatherings of the world’s political and economic leaders....