Pluto Press: 574 books
The Failure of Capitalist Production
Underlying Causes of the Great Recession
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
The recent financial crisis and Great Recession have been analysed endlessly in the mainstream and academia, but this is the first book to conclude, on the basis of in-depth analyses of official US data, that Marx's crisis theory can explain these events.*BR**BR*Marx believed that the rate of profit...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Banks accused of rate-fixing. Members of Parliament cooking the books. Major defence contractors investigated over suspect arms deals. Police accused of being paid off by tabloids. The headlines are unrelenting these days. Perhaps it's high time we ask: just exactly how corrupt is Britain?*BR**BR*David...
The Great University Gamble
Money, Markets and the Future of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
In 2010 the UK government imposed huge cuts and market-driven reforms on higher education. Proposals to raise undergraduate tuition fees lead to angry student-led protests. What will become of higher education under this new policy regime? *BR**BR*The Great University Gamble outlines the architecture...
Decent Capitalism
A Blueprint for Reforming our Economies
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
The recent crisis, created by finance capitalism, has brought us to the economic abyss. The excessive freedom of international markets has rapidly transformed into international panic, with states struggling to rescue and bail out a globalised financial sector. Reform is promised by our leaders, but...
The Future of Money
From Financial Crisis to Public Resource
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2010
As the recent financial crisis has revealed, the state is central to the stability of the money system, while the chaotic privately-owned banks reap the benefits without shouldering the risks. This book argues that money is a public resource that has been hijacked by capitalism.*BR**BR*Mary Mellor...
The Profit Doctrine
Economists of the Neoliberal Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
The economics profession has a lot to answer for. After the late 1970s, the ideas of influential economists have justified policies that have made the world more prone to economic crisis, remarkably less equal, more polluted and less secure than it might be. How could ideas and policies that proved...
Where the Other Half Lives
Lower Income Housing in a Neoliberal World
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2009
Housing has become a hot topic. The media is filled with stories of individual housing hardship and of major property-related financial crises: of crippling personal debts, rundown social housing, homelessness, mass demolition, spiralling prices, unaffordability and global recession.*BR**BR*This book...
The Battle for Europe
How an Elite Hijacked a Continent - and How we Can Take it Back
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
The Battle for Europe brings into sharp focus the historical importance of the current Eurozone crisis. Thomas Fazi argues that European Union (EU) elites have seized on the financial crash to push through damaging neoliberal policies, undermining social cohesion and vital public services. *BR**BR*Drawing...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
This is a collection of essays by an array of contributors from the Global Labour Column, which highlights and examines class struggle as the core of resistance against capitalism today. *BR**BR*It provides insights into the dynamics of neoliberalism and its persistence and stimulates debates about...
The Rent Trap
How we Fell into It and How we Get Out of It
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2016
Deregulation, revenge evictions, parliamentary corruption and day-to-day instability: these are the realities for the eleven million people currently renting privately in the UK. At the same time, house prices are skyrocketing and the generational promise of home ownership is now an impossible dream...
Bacardi
The Hidden War
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2002
The Bacardà rum company is one of the most successful and recognisable brands in the world. It spends millions on marketing itself as the spirit of youth and vitality. But behind its image as a party drink lies a very different story.
In this book, investigative journalist Hernando Calvo...
Racism
A Critical Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
The book traces the legacy of racism across three continents, from its origins to the present day, bringing a sophisticated neo-Marxist analysis to bear on a muti-faceted and endemic topic.*BR**BR*Mike Cole takes us through the racial histories of the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia....
by Henryk Grossmann
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 1992
'Law of Accumulation, first published in German in 1929 , is one of the seminal works of Marxian political economy, both in its method and in substantive theory. Reissued in the original German in 1970 , Grossmann's work has also appeared in Japanese, but there has never (until now) been an English...
Global Fracture
The New International Economic Order
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2005
"Hudson is one of the tiny handful of economic thinkers in today's world who are forcing us to look at old questions in startling new ways". Alvin Toffler, best-selling author of Future Shock and The Third Wave
This new and updated edition of Michael Hudson's classic political economy text...