We live in an era in which the culture and values of big business are dominant. The riptides of capital swirl around the globe ruining entire economies overnight. Directors and chief executives cash in stock options for unimaginable fortunes while whole workforces are “downsized” as companies relocate at a whim. Environmental degradation escalates as the earth’s resources are looted. The dream of worldwide prosperity and peace is given the lie from Kosovo to the Congo, from the drug baronies of South America to the criminal empires of the former Soviet Union. Welcome to the Age of Insecurity.In the face of this slow-motion global coup d’etat by untrammelled finance, traditionally left leaning parties now in power have abandoned their concern with regulating business for a compulsive and self-righteous moralism; the Blair government stands as a perfect exemplar in this trend. In the coruscating argument the authors make a plea for government to turn strictures concerning ethics away from the citizen and on to a financial system that is making our society ever more precarious.Since the publication of the hardback of The Age of Insecurity in May 1998 events have conspired to validate the author’s argument. In a new preface and afterword Elliott and Atkinson draw out the lessons to be learned from the hedge-fund crisis, the disintegration of the rouble and the spreading of economic turmoil in Latin America.The Age of Insecurity is, more than ever, a vital and radical tract for our times.

The Age of Insecurity

Business & Money

Elliott, Larry & Dan Atkinson

Economics

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Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree (Islam Quartet 1)

Literature & Fiction

ALI, TARIQ

Contemporary

No-one and nothing, not even the Congress of a Communist Party, can abolish the dictatorship of the proletariat. That is the most important conclusion of this book by Étienne Balibar. Balibar spells out his reasoning against the background of the 22nd Congress of the French Communist Party, which decided to ‘drop’ the aim of the dictatorship of the proletariat and to substitute the objective of a ‘democratic’ road to socialism. His concrete references are therefore usually to arguments put forward within the French Party. But it is quite obvious that the significance of this book is much wider, not least because, in spite of the important political and economic differences separating the nations of western Europe, many of their Communist Parties are evolving in an apparently similar ideological direction, and indeed appear to be borrowing arguments from one another in support of their new positions.

On the Dictatorship of the Proletariat

Politics & Social Sciences

Balibar, Étienne

Politics & Government

Wall Street

Henwood, Doug

Those Damn Yankees: The Secret Life of America's Greatest Franchise

In 1998, baseball fans thrilled to Sammy Sosa & Mark McGwire's home run slugfest & the Yankees won more games in a season than any team in Major League history. Chadwin looks at the Yankees' 1998 season & questions whether the foundation of the team's victory, unmatched TV revenues being used to buy the best players, might not spell the end of competition & declining public interest in the game. Points out the unequal competition between the haves & have-nots of the Major League. He takes an irreverent journey through the Yankee legend: a century of fan misbehavior, the roots of statistical obsessions, the corrupt ties between the game & the media, & fraught attitudes toward race & sexuality which continue to haunt the franchise today. Photos.

Sports & Outdoors

Dean Chadwin

Baseball

Problems in materialism and culture: Selected essays

RAYMOND WILLIAMS

Anthropology

Logic as a Positive Science

Galvano Della Volpe

Philosophy

Leninism and Western socialism

Medvedev, Roy Aleksandrovich

Marxism and the Methodologies of History

Gregor McLennan

The break-up of Britain: Crisis and neonationalism

Nairn, Tom

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