Mary Dowell-Jones (Nottingham) and David Kinley (Sydney): Minding the Gap: Global Finance and Human Rights. Paul Street on some big things Ha-Joon Chang doesn’t tell you about capitalism. From Red Pepper, Ha-Joon Chang on the state response to the neoliberal crisis — but it’s the movement that matters, responds Oisin Gilmore; and an interview with Harry Shutt, author of Beyond the Profits System: Possibilities for the Post-Capitalist Era. Autumn of the Empire: A review of The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times and Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century by Giovanni Arrighi; The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures by Richard Duncan; and The Economics of Global Turbulence by Robert Brenner. An interview with Tom Naylor, author of Crass Struggle: Greed, Glitz and Gluttony in a Wanna-Have World. From Monthly Review, an article on the internationalization of monopoly capital; and a review of Moshe Adler's Economics for the Rest of Us: Debunking the Science that Makes Life Dismal, David Orrell's Economyths: Ten Ways That Economics Get It Wrong; and Modern Political Economics: Making Sense of the Post-2008 World by Yanis Varoufakis, Joseph Halevi, and Nicholas Theocaratis. A review of Front Page Economics by Gerald Suttles. Here are 5 things nobody tells you about being poor. Doing nothing once again: Do economists bleed? Dean Baker wants to know. A review of Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon by Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner (and more and more). Dignity and Democracy: Dirk Kurbjuweit on escaping the clutches of the financial markets. An interview with Paul Mattick, author of Business as Usual: The Economic Crisis and the Future of Capitalism.
