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Brandt, Barbara
Whole Life Economics: Revaluing Daily Life
NSP 256pp ISBN: 0-86571-266-2 $16.95 Political Economy
'Whole Life Economics opens the door to personal and social recovery from our deadly addiction to money and short-term gain. It challenges the dominance of corporations, values women's work and other invisible forms of production, exposes the true social and health costs of our current economy, and stretches the limits of our economic imagination to include the health and well-being of individuals, communities and nature.' - New Society Website

Brecher, Jeremy
Global Visions: Beyond the New World Order
Black Rose 317pp ISBN: 1-895431-74-3 $25.50 Political Economy
A compilation of essays from a wide ranging collection of community activists, writers and academics on the New World Order Globalism as typified by the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI). This collection challenges the aims of government and corporate globalism and proposes grassroots action and the forging of international links to counter the increasing power of transnational companies, and international institutions and economic agreements.

Brecher, Jeremy & Costello, Tim
Global Village or Global Pillage
South End Press 237pp ISBN: 0-89608-493-0 $20.80 Political Economy
A 'global economy repair manual' - a practical guide for action for those who want to think globally and work locally on the economy, trade and the environment.

Cleaver, Harry
Reading Capital Politically
AK Press 183pp ISBN: 1-902593-29-4 $22.50 Political Economy
Through a close reading of the first chapter, Cleaver shows that Das Kapital was written for the workers, not for academics, and that we need to expand our idea of workers to include housewives, students, the unemployed and other non-waged workers. Reading Capital Politically provides a theoretical and historical bridge between struggles in Europe in the 60s & 70s, and particulary the Autonomia of Italy to the Zapatistas of the 90s. Cleaver's introduction provides a brilliant and succinct overview of working class struggles in the century since Capital was published.

Danaher, Kevin (ed)
Democratizing The Global Economy: The Battle Against The World Bank & IMF
Common Courage 221pp ISBN: 1 567512 08 9 $20.70 Political Economy
For half a century the IMF and World Bank - two of the most powerful institutions on Earth - operated in near-total secrecy. Now, an international grassroots movement is exposing these elite operations to the uncomfortably bright light of public scrutiny. Authors include Robert Naiman on how IMF and World Bank policies lower wages and encourage sweatshops; Carol Welch on how economic lending institutions are used for corporate welfare; Terry Allen on police brutality and recent government efforts to chill activism; Naomi Klein on how criticism of protestors' 'lack of vision' has often missed the point; Robert Weissman on how most debt relief programs have been little more than a PR stunt...and much more.

Douthwaite, Richard
The Growth Illusion: How Economic Growth has Enriched the Few, Impoverished the Many, and Endangered the Planet
NSP 400pp ISBN: 0-86571-396-0 $25.95 Political Economy
Douthwaite examines the history of western economic growth from the birth of capitalism through the industrial revolution and the world wars, drawing a startling link between rising GNP and the erosion of the quality of our health, family and community life, and a sustainable future. This engaging and well-researched work looks at the end of the American dream and why national growth patterns are so difficult to break, and offers radical ideas to steer our economies on a new course.

Duane, Michael
Work, Language & Education in the Industrial State
Freedom 36pp ISBN: 0-900384-59-X $3.60 Political Economy
Articulates the important connections between the nature of work in industrial society, the exercise of linguistic skills and the importance of an educational understanding and experience of making decisions over matters that affect them.

Duncan, C.M. & Tandy, D.W.
From Political Economy to Anthropology: Situating Economic Life in Past Societies
Black Rose 186pp ISBN: 1-895431-88-3 $20.20 Political Economy
Social and economic analysis of ancient, pre state Greece and classical Maya; the Maori women and slaves; rural India, rural Kentucky; and pre-industrial Japan.

Elkington, John
Cannibals with Forks
NSP 416pp ISBN: 0-86571-392-8 $26.95 Political Economy
In Cannibals with Forks, Elkington convincingly argues that future market success will often depend on a company's ability to satisfy not just the traditional bottom line of profitability, but also the two emerging bottom lines - one focusing on environmental quality , the other on social justice. The book profiles some of the world's best known companies including Nike, Walmart, Levi Struass, Volkswagen, Texaco, Intel, Volvo, Dow Chemical, Procter & Gamble, Novo Nordisk, and Shell.

Fodor, Eben V.
Better Not Bigger: How to Take Control of Urban Growth and Improve Your Community
NSP 176pp ISBN: 0-86571-386-3 $17.95 Political Economy
Better NOT Bigger is a 'mantra' for communities facing rapid development. Fodor explodes the fundamental myth that growth is good for us and that more development will bring in more tax money, add jobs, lower housing costs, and reduce property taxes. The real winners, contends Fodor, are real estate developers, mortgage bankers, realtors, and construction companies who utilize local government to divert public resources into growth-inducing investments. The benefits from exploiting the community commons accrue to a few, while the costs are distributed across the entire community. Fodor marshals evidence from almost every state in the US to prove his point.

Gardezi
Political Economy of International Labour Migration
Black Rose 210pp ISBN: 1-551640-16-3 $25.50 Political Economy
While former studies on labour migration have concentrated on its effect on GNP, foreign exchange earnings, and labour exporting countries' rates of investment, Gardezi's work refocuses attention on the migrant workers themselves, their hopes and aspirations, family and community life, and working conditions both at home and abroad. Taking this wide-ranging view, he is able to enhance our understanding of the transfers of labour force.

Herman, Edward S.
Triumph of the Market. Essays on Economics, Politics and the Media
Black Rose 276pp ISBN: 1-55164-062-7 $25.50 Political Economy
Brilliant analysis of the linkages between U.S. and global economics, politics and media. This book demystifies the many ways that giant global corporations have worked to replace democratic and community values with market exchange. A disturbing warning about the dangers to democracy, economic rationality, national sovereignty, global economic stability and progress, and international peace.

Lowenstein, Wendy
Weevils at Work. What's happening to work in Australia - an oral record.
Catalyst Press 239pp ISBN: 1875285199 $10.00 Political Economy
Lowenstein lets working people speak for themselves. An invaluable book on work in Australia, which complements her previous book on the Great Depression, Weevils in the Flour.

McKenzie-Mohr and Smith
Fostering Sustainable Behavior: An Introduction to Community Based Social Marketing
NSP 176pp ISBN: 0-86571-406-1 $17.95 Political Economy
This ground-breaking book is the primary resource for the emerging new field of community-based social marketing, and an invaluable guide for anyone involved in designing public education programs with the goal of promoting sustainable behavior, from recycling and energy efficiency, to alternative transportation.

Meeker-Lowry, Susan
Invested in the Common Good
NSP 272pp ISBN: 0-86571-319-7 $22.95 Political Economy
Practical suggestions for investing one's money, time or skills in creating more sustainable local economies.

Pym, Denis
The Employment Question and Other Essays
Freedom 68pp ISBN: 0-900384-31-X $7.10
What is it about the institutional world that makes such miserable slaves of us? Industrial societies and their citizens have granted to employment a virtual monopoly over the creation and distribution of wealth. It is very difficult for us to live without the wages, salaries and profits that employment brings. We have split economic life from the rest of experience so making the derived condition, unemployment, a major problem.

Various
Neither Nationalisation nor Privatisation
Freedom 80pp ISBN: 0-900384-29-2 $6.90 Political Economy
From the Freedom Press, Centenary Series these articles from Freedom discuss the postwar British Labour policies of Nationalisation. The articles present a third alternative to the policies of nationalisation by Labour, and Private enterprise by Conservatives - "From our standpoint as anarchists and syndicalists we see that the only lasting solution of all labour problems and disputes is for the workers to take control of their places of work themselves." The argument is as valid today with right wing economic rationalists influencing Governments to sell their public enterprises to private interests.

Various
Why Work? Arguments for the Leisure Society
Freedom 210pp ISBN: 0-900384-25-5 $17.40 Political Economy
A compilation of provocative essays on: the problems and pleasures of work; alternatives and futures; and production for use versus production for profit. Includes 6 inspiring foldout drawings by Clifford Harper depicting an autonomous terrace and community.