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<title><![CDATA[The Value of Nothing]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780312429249</link>
<description><![CDATA["A deeply though-provoking book about the dramatic changes we must make to save the planet from financial madness."--Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine Opening with Oscar Wilde's observation that "nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing," Patel shows how our faith in prices as a way of valuing the world is misplaced.  He reveals the hidden ecological and social costs of a hamburger (as much as $200), and asks how we came to have markets in the first place.  Both the corporate capture of government and our current financial crisis, Patel argues, are a result of our democratically bankrupt political system. If part one asks how we can rebalance society and limit markets, part two answers by showing how social organizations, in America and around the globe, are finding new ways to describe the world's worth.  If we don't want the market to price every aspect of our lives, we need to learn how such organizations have discovered democratic ways in which people, and not simply governments, can play a crucial role in deciding how we might share our world and its resources in common. This short, timely and inspiring book reveals that our current crisis is not simply the result of too much of the wrong kind of economics.  While we need to rethink our economic model, Patel argues that the larger failure beneath the food, climate and economic crises is a political one.  If economics is about choices, Patel writes, it isn't often said who gets to make them.  The Value of Nothing offers a fresh and accessible way to think about economics and the choices we will all need to make in order to create a sustainable economy and society.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Value of Nothing]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raj Patel]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Picador]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780312429249]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA["A deeply though-provoking book about the dramatic changes we must make to save the planet from financial madness."--Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine Opening with Oscar Wilde's observation that "nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing," Patel shows how our faith in prices as a way of valuing the world is misplaced.  He reveals the hidden ecological and social costs of a hamburger (as much as $200), and asks how we came to have markets in the first place.  Both the corporate capture of government and our current financial crisis, Patel argues, are a result of our democratically bankrupt political system. If part one asks how we can rebalance society and limit markets, part two answers by showing how social organizations, in America and around the globe, are finding new ways to describe the world's worth.  If we don't want the market to price every aspect of our lives, we need to learn how such organizations have discovered democratic ways in which people, and not simply governments, can play a crucial role in deciding how we might share our world and its resources in common. This short, timely and inspiring book reveals that our current crisis is not simply the result of too much of the wrong kind of economics.  While we need to rethink our economic model, Patel argues that the larger failure beneath the food, climate and economic crises is a political one.  If economics is about choices, Patel writes, it isn't often said who gets to make them.  The Value of Nothing offers a fresh and accessible way to think about economics and the choices we will all need to make in order to create a sustainable economy and society.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2010-01-05T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[A Companion to Marx's Capital]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781844673599</link>
<description><![CDATA[The radical geographer guides us through the classic text of political economy.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[A Companion to Marx's Capital]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Harvey]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Verso]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781844673599]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[The radical geographer guides us through the classic text of political economy.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2010-03-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Limits to Capital]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781844670956</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Limits to Capital provides one of the best theoretical guides to the history and geography of capitalist development. In this new edition, Harvey updates his classic text with a substantial discussion of the turmoil in world markets today. In his analyses of 'fictitious capital' and 'uneven geographical development' Harvey takes the reader step by step through layers of crisis formation, beginning with Marx's controversial argument concerning the falling rate of profit, moving through crises of credit and finance, and closing with a timely analysis geopolitical and geographical considerations.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Limits to Capital]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Harvey]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Verso]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781844670956]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[The Limits to Capital provides one of the best theoretical guides to the history and geography of capitalist development. In this new edition, Harvey updates his classic text with a substantial discussion of the turmoil in world markets today. In his analyses of 'fictitious capital' and 'uneven geographical development' Harvey takes the reader step by step through layers of crisis formation, beginning with Marx's controversial argument concerning the falling rate of profit, moving through crises of credit and finance, and closing with a timely analysis geopolitical and geographical considerations.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2007-01-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Karl Marx's Theory of History]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780691070681</link>
<description><![CDATA[First published in 1978, this book rapidly established itself as a classic of modern Marxism. Cohen's masterful application of advanced philosophical techniques in an uncompromising defense of historical materialism commanded widespread admiration. In the ensuing twenty years, the book has served as a flagship of a powerful intellectual movement--analytical Marxism. In this expanded edition, Cohen offers his own account of the history, and the further promise, of analytical Marxism. He also expresses reservations about traditional historical materialism, in the light of which he reconstructs the theory, and he studies the implications for historical materialism of the demise of the Soviet Union.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Karl Marx's Theory of History]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[G. A. Cohen; Gerald Allen Cohen]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Princeton University Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780691070681]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[First published in 1978, this book rapidly established itself as a classic of modern Marxism. Cohen's masterful application of advanced philosophical techniques in an uncompromising defense of historical materialism commanded widespread admiration. In the ensuing twenty years, the book has served as a flagship of a powerful intellectual movement--analytical Marxism. In this expanded edition, Cohen offers his own account of the history, and the further promise, of analytical Marxism. He also expresses reservations about traditional historical materialism, in the light of which he reconstructs the theory, and he studies the implications for historical materialism of the demise of the Soviet Union.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2001-03-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Karl Marx's Theory of Ideas]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780521066723</link>
<description><![CDATA[Karl Marx's writings contain, besides economic analysis and the political theory of revolutionary communism, an influential sociology of ideas, explaining how social life shapes and distorts people's ideas and beliefs. This book presents a fresh critical study of this theory, establishing what Marx did and did not say, and distinguishing the more scientific parts of his thought from those that were overly influenced by his revolutionary aims. The author argues that Marx's own theory of ideas can play an important role in explaining the subsequent degeneration of Marxist thought itself.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Karl Marx's Theory of Ideas]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Torrance]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Cambridge University Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780521066723]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Karl Marx's writings contain, besides economic analysis and the political theory of revolutionary communism, an influential sociology of ideas, explaining how social life shapes and distorts people's ideas and beliefs. This book presents a fresh critical study of this theory, establishing what Marx did and did not say, and distinguishing the more scientific parts of his thought from those that were overly influenced by his revolutionary aims. The author argues that Marx's own theory of ideas can play an important role in explaining the subsequent degeneration of Marxist thought itself.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2009-07-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich?]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780674006935</link>
<description><![CDATA[This book presents G. A. Cohen's Gifford Lectures, delivered at the University of Edinburgh in 1996. Focusing on Marxism and Rawlsian liberalism, Cohen draws a connection between these thought systems and the choices that shape a person's life. In the case of Marxism, the relevant life is his own: a communist upbringing in the 1940s in Montreal, which induced a belief in a strongly socialist egalitarian doctrine. The narrative of Cohen's reckoning with that inheritance develops through a series of sophisticated engagements with the central questions of social and political philosophy.In the case of Rawlsian doctrine, Cohen looks to people's lives in general. He argues that egalitarian justice is not only, as Rawlsian liberalism teaches, a matter of rules that define the structure of society, but also a matter of personal attitude and choice. Personal attitude and choice are, moreover, the stuff of which social structure itself is made. Those truths have not informed political philosophy as much as they should, and Cohen's focus on them brings political philosophy closer to moral philosophy, and to the Judeo-Christian ethical tradition, than it has recently been.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich?]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[G. A. Cohen]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Harvard University Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780674006935]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[This book presents G. A. Cohen's Gifford Lectures, delivered at the University of Edinburgh in 1996. Focusing on Marxism and Rawlsian liberalism, Cohen draws a connection between these thought systems and the choices that shape a person's life. In the case of Marxism, the relevant life is his own: a communist upbringing in the 1940s in Montreal, which induced a belief in a strongly socialist egalitarian doctrine. The narrative of Cohen's reckoning with that inheritance develops through a series of sophisticated engagements with the central questions of social and political philosophy.In the case of Rawlsian doctrine, Cohen looks to people's lives in general. He argues that egalitarian justice is not only, as Rawlsian liberalism teaches, a matter of rules that define the structure of society, but also a matter of personal attitude and choice. Personal attitude and choice are, moreover, the stuff of which social structure itself is made. Those truths have not informed political philosophy as much as they should, and Cohen's focus on them brings political philosophy closer to moral philosophy, and to the Judeo-Christian ethical tradition, than it has recently been.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2001-09-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780521477512</link>
<description><![CDATA[Defenders of capitalism claim that its inequality is the necessary price of the freedom that it guarantees. In that defense of capitalist inequality, freedom is self-ownership, the right of each person to do as he wishes with himself. The author shows that self-ownership fails to deliver the freedom it promises to secure. He thereby undermines the idea that lovers of freedom should embrace capitalism and the inequality that comes with it. In the final chapter he reaffirms the moral superiority of socialism, against the background of the disastrous Soviet experiment.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Self-Ownership, Freedom, and Equality]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[G. A. Cohen]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Cambridge University Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780521477512]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Defenders of capitalism claim that its inequality is the necessary price of the freedom that it guarantees. In that defense of capitalist inequality, freedom is self-ownership, the right of each person to do as he wishes with himself. The author shows that self-ownership fails to deliver the freedom it promises to secure. He thereby undermines the idea that lovers of freedom should embrace capitalism and the inequality that comes with it. In the final chapter he reaffirms the moral superiority of socialism, against the background of the disastrous Soviet experiment.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>1995-10-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Young Karl Marx]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780521118262</link>
<description><![CDATA[An innovative and important study of Marx's early writings.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Young Karl Marx]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Leopold]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Cambridge University Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780521118262]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[An innovative and important study of Marx's early writings.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2009-08-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Adventures in Marxism]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781859843093</link>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[Adventures in Marxism]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Marshall Berman]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Verso]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781859843093]]></dc:identifier>
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<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2001-01-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[World-Systems Analysis]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780822334422</link>
<description><![CDATA["Immanuel Wallerstein's mind can reach as far and encompass as much as anyone's in our time. The world, to him, is a vast, integrated system, and he makes the case for that vision with an elegant and almost relentless logic. But he also knows that to see as he does requires looking through a very different epistemological lens than the one most of us are in the habit of using. So his gift to us is not just a new understanding of how the world works but a new way of apprehending it. A brilliant work on both scores."--Kai Erikson, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of Sociology and American Studies, Yale University]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[World-Systems Analysis]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Duke University Press]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780822334422]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA["Immanuel Wallerstein's mind can reach as far and encompass as much as anyone's in our time. The world, to him, is a vast, integrated system, and he makes the case for that vision with an elegant and almost relentless logic. But he also knows that to see as he does requires looking through a very different epistemological lens than the one most of us are in the habit of using. So his gift to us is not just a new understanding of how the world works but a new way of apprehending it. A brilliant work on both scores."--Kai Erikson, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of Sociology and American Studies, Yale University]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Paperback]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2004-09-01T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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