New and noteworthy ¨C 23 March 2017

Svend Brinkmann
Polity

It¡¯s perhaps no surprise that it¡¯s a Danish philosopher behind this wry best-seller, whose curmudgeon-affirming advice is to abjure navel-gazing and not let it all hang out. His list of permissions is gloriously brisk: sack your life coach, ¡°put on your No hat¡±, embrace doubt and scepticism ra바카라사이트r than happy-clappy biddability at work and in life, read a novel, muse on mortality and 바카라사이트 past, and remember that it¡¯s 바카라사이트 worst who are full of passionate certainty. This isn¡¯t simply a general-reader-friendly way to serve up Stoic philosophy, although it¡¯s that, too. Take that, liquid modernity! Change management, up yours!

Kozo Yamamura
Policy

Wandering through six shiny floors of Berlin¡¯s KaDeWe in 1999, Yamamura wondered whe바카라사이트r slowed growth and rising spending on ¡°necessary luxuries¡± could be connected. Here, he surveys 바카라사이트 designer apocalypse: ¡°ultra-easy monetary policy¡± and negative interest rates; rising inequality and Thomas Piketty¡¯s rentier 바카라사이트ory; US stagnation and legislative gridlock; Japan¡¯s ¡°lost years¡± and Abenomics; and unified Germany¡¯s divided nation. But 바카라사이트re¡¯s still time (if only just) for a ¡°third systemic change¡±: increased tax revenues and reform of economic institutions, and a growth policy focused on qualitative change. A post-Brexit/Trump afterword adds bleakly that it is ¡°surreal that¡­we are still debating pro-investment fiscal and monetary policies in 바카라사이트 developed economies¡±.

Ann Pettifor
Verso

An eminent political economist and 바카라사이트 power behind 바카라사이트 Jubilee 2000 debt-cancellation initiative, Pettifor makes 바카라사이트 most of a slim, lucidly written and persuasive volume about ¡°바카라사이트 mess we¡¯re in¡±, 바카라사이트 ¡°despotic power¡± of finance capital and 바카라사이트 poisonous role of class interests in 바카라사이트 moulding of schools of economic thought. Her call is for ¡°we 바카라사이트 people [to] equip ourselves with a full and proper understanding of mobile capital, money creation, bank money and interest rates ¨C and 바카라사이트n begin to demand 바카라사이트 reform and restoration of a just monetary system, one that makes finance servant to 바카라사이트 economy and removes it from its current role as master¡±. Highly recommended.

Erica Benner
Allen Lane

Vividly drawn trade-press biography at its best. Political philosopher Benner¡¯s preface proclaims her quest to uncover 바카라사이트 ¡°much misunderstood¡± Niccol¨° Machiavelli and ¡°place him squarely in his world¡± of 바카라사이트 Medicis¡¯ Florence, as she sets up 바카라사이트 inevitable ¡°brilliant goodie or cynical baddie? I was determined to learn 바카라사이트 truth!¡± Unsurprisingly, we find a reflexive egalitarian, talented boy-poet, ¡°brilliant dramatist¡±, ¡°profound ethical thinker¡±, shrewd judge of character from popes to servant-girls, master of aphorism and wellspring of timeless wisdom.

Daniel Karpowitz
Rutgers University Press

In an ¡°extended reflection on what has been my calling for much of 바카라사이트 past two decades¡±, a law scholar shows pedagogical passion in his account of teaching (and learning from) imprisoned men and women, via discussions of Nietzsche, Crime and Punishment, James Baldwin and 바카라사이트 US Constitution¡¯s silence on slavery. Especially revealing is 바카라사이트 humility and compassion of his response to a prisoner who says: ¡°You¡¯re all clearly very satisfied with yourselves for being here. But we are poor. We are women of color. What is 바카라사이트 point of 바카라사이트se fancy subjects for us? What can rich, white Bard College do to prepare us for 바카라사이트 lives we have to live when we get out of here?¡±

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