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The Great Transformation
By Karl Polanyi
One of the twentieth century's most thorough and discerning historians, Karl Polanyi sheds "new illumination on . . . the social implications of a particular economic system, the market economy that grew into full stature in the nineteenth century". (R. M. MacIver)
Capital: Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy
By Karl Marx
"Capital" is an incisive critique of private property and the social relations it generates.
Empire of Chaos
By Samir Amin
The Bottom Billion: Why The Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
By Paul Collier
It will change the way you look at the tragedy of persistent poverty in a world of plenty.
World Accumulation, 1492-1789
By Andre G. Frank
This book studies the effects of cyclical fluctuations in the process of capital accumulation - the sixteenth-century expansion, the seventeenth-century depression, the cyclical swings between the Glorious Revolution in England in 1688 and the Peace of Paris in 1763, the Depression and the American, French, and Industrial Revolutions between 1762 and 1789.
