While I began writing The Capitalist Mode of Destruction before the current pandemic, I could not but be struck by all the different ways this pandemic encapsulated many of the book’s arguments and... READ MORE
In this video, Jack Mosse introduces his new book, The pound and the fury: Why anger and confusion reign in an economy paralysed by myth. About the book What’s wrong with the UK... READ MORE
How would you like someone who has read your book to sum it up in one sentence? By listening to people from a range of backgrounds this book finds that, increasingly, when people on low incomes hear... READ MORE
When we started writing The spatial contract a few years ago, a global pandemic was not the crisis we had in mind. We were concerned about rising inequality, about the climate, about crumbling... READ MORE
From the Foundational Economy Collective[1] What comes after the pandemic when the public health emergency is over? Across Europe for the past thirty years we have had an ongoing crisis of... READ MORE
By Tom Dark – Senior Commissioning Editor – (Social Sciences) As an editor working across the social sciences, but particularly in sociology, I have always found it useful to engage... READ MORE
Debt as Power explains the dangerous connection between the rate at which economies must grow and the enormous debts owed by governments, corporations and consumers. Globally, that debt now exceeds... READ MORE
Oonagh McDonald, author of Lehman Brothers, A crisis of of value, was interviewed on Wake Up to Money, BBC Radio 5Live last week. READ MORE
By Josef Konvitz Governments need to recognise the huge impact that cities have on the 21st century global economy, says Josef Konvitz If cities are the motors of the economy, why have they been... READ MORE
A crisis of value On September 12 2008, #Lehman Brothers was valued at $639bn. On Monday 15 September, it was worth nothing. Author of new book Lehman Brothers, Oonagh McDonald, discusses how... READ MORE