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  The Triumph of Injustice - How...

  Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman

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  America's runaway inequality has an engine: our unjust tax system.Even as they became fabulously wealthy, the ultra-rich have seen their taxes collapse to levels last seen in the 1920s. Meanwhile, working-class Americans have been asked to pay more. The Triumph of Injustice presents a forensic investigation into this dramatic transformation, written by two economists who revolutionized the study of inequality. Eschewing anecdotes and case studies, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman offer a comprehensive view of America's tax system, based on new statistics covering all taxes paid at all levels of government. Their conclusion? For the first time in more than a century, billionaires now pay lower tax rates than their secretaries.Blending history and cutting-edge economic analysis, and writing in lively and jargon-free prose, Saez and Zucman dissect the deliberate choices (and sins of indecision) that have brought us to today: the gradual exemption of capital owners; the surge of a new tax avoidance industry; and the spiral of tax competition among nations. With clarity and concision, they explain how America turned away from the most progressive tax system in history to embrace policies that only serve to compound the wealth of a few.

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  Karl Marx Dictionary

  Morris Stockhammer

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  This accessible and comprehensive reference volume covers the concepts, terminology, and writings of the towering political philosopher.   The detailed, authoritative entries of this volume, written in clearly understandable terms, extract the essential ideas from Karl Marx’s voluminous and historically important works. As the three volumes of Das Kapital are the main source of Marxist thought, every significant passage from this masterwork is isolated for reference and scrutiny.   In addition, many other sources from the vast body of Marx’s writings are closely examined. With its expertly researched, in-depth entries, this volume presents a complete account of Marx’s philosophy.

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  Resistance from the Right -...

  Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

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  Pivoting from studies that emphasize the dominance of progressivism on American college campuses during the late sixties and early seventies, Lauren Lassabe Shepherd positions conservative critiques of, and agendas in, American colleges and universities as an essential dimension of a broader conversation of conservative backlash against liberal education.This book explores the story of how stakeholders in American higher education organized and reacted to challenges to their power from the New Left and Black Power student resistance movements of the late 1960s. By examining the range of conservative student organizations and coalition building, Shepherd shows how wealthy donors and conservative intellectuals trained future GOP leaders such as Karl Rove, Bill Barr, Jeff Sessions, Pat Buchanan, and others in conservative politics, providing them with tactics to consciously drive American politics and culture further to the authoritarian right and to "reclaim" American higher education.

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  Brexit: What the Hell Happens...

  Ian Dunt

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  Journalist Ian Dunt reveals how leaving the European Union will damage Britain's politics, courts, businesses and consumers.  
  This fast-paced bestseller strips Britain's biggest issue of the gloss put on it by its cheerleaders and exposes it for what it is: a sham. 
  It is based on extensive research with experts across the law, trade and politics.  
  It maps the trade and legal cliff edge that Britain faces unless it secures a transitional deal with the European Union — and explains why the odds are stacked against the UK government in the negotiations and how the World Trade Organisation is not the solution to leaving the EU. 
  The author (who reads this audiobook) reveals how Brexit will: make the UK poorerleave industries like pharmaceuticals and finance struggling to operatethreatens to break up the United KingdomIn brief, it paints the real picture of a country about to undergo a sharp and self-inflicted isolation. In the run up to the EU referendum in 2016, the British cabinet minister Michael Gove said that the British public had had enough of experts. Ian Dunt disagrees. This is a book is for people who believe in evidence and reason.

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  Over Here - The First World War...

  David M. Kennedy

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  The Great War of 1914–1918 confronted the United States with one of the most wrenching crises in the nation's history. It also left a residue of disruption and disillusion that spawned an even more ruinous conflict scarcely a generation later. 
  Over Here is the single most comprehensive discussion of the impact of World War I on American society. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition includes a new afterword from Pulitzer Prize–winning author David M. Kennedy, that explains his reasons for writing the original edition as well as his opinions on the legacy of Wilsonian idealism, most recently reflected in President George W. Bush's national security strategy. More than a chronicle of the war years, Over Here uses the record of America's experience in the Great War as a prism through which to view early twentieth-century American society. The ways in which America mobilized for the war, chose to fight it, and then went about the business of enshrining it in memory all indicate important aspects of enduring American character. An American history classic, Over Here reflects on a society's struggle with the pains of war, and offers trenchant insights into the birth of modern America.

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  Abolishing Money

  Eske Bockelmann

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  State socialism, neoliberalism - it's all the same! Thus one could put one's finger on the net result which is drawn in this publication. For it eloquently demonstrates that with one or the other economic and monetary concept of money too many people - and far too much humanity - fall by the wayside. The stirring plea for a world without money, however, does not stop at mere criticism, but makes such a world clear to us together with its advantages. A world without money: would it be at all possible? Would we make it possible? That is and remains the crucial question. Here it is asked and answered.

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