Sam Gindin: 5 books

The all-encompassing embrace of world capitalism at the beginning of the twenty-first century was generally attributed to the superiority of competitive markets. Globalization had appeared to be the natural outcome of this unstoppable process. But today, with global markets roiling and increasingly...

Amidst a significant shift from protest to politics on the contemporary left, Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin focus on some key recent moments, providing essential historical, theoretical and critical perspectives for understanding the potential as well as the limits of the Sanders electoral insurgency...

La formación del capitalismo global, a través de un análisis sorprendentemente original de la primera gran crisis económica del siglo xxi, la relaciona e identifica con la centralidad de los conflictos sociales que se producen en el seno de los estados, más que entre estados. fallas emergentes...

In this groundbreaking study of the financial meltdown, renowned radical political economists lay bare the roots of the crisis in the inner logic of capitalism itself. Objective and detailed, this account provocatively challenges the call for a return to a largely mythical golden age of economic regulation...

Global society has been analyzed in any number of ways: books dealing with its economic and cultural implications flood the market. But Planetary Politics highlights something unique. It explores globalization with an eye on the transformation of politics into a planetary enterprise. Unifying this...