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Latest reviews
Ben Selwyn and Christin Bernhold, Capitalist Value Chains: Labour Exploitation, Nature Destruction, Geopolitics, Oxford University Press, 2025.
Leopoldina Fortunati, The Arcana of Reproduction: Housewives, Prostitutes, Workers and Capital [1981] Verso, 2025
Rebecca Carson, Immanent Externalities: The Reproduction of Life in Capital, Brill, 2023 (hbk), Haymarket Books (pbk) 2024
World Bank, World Development Report 2024: The Middle Income Trap, World Bank, 2024.
Anna Fielder, Going Into Labour: Childbirth in Capitalism, Pluto Press, 2024.
Sophie Harman, Sick of It: the Global Fight for Women's Health, Virago, 2024
Shirin M. Rai, Depletion: The Human Costs of Caring, Oxford University Press, 2024.
Latest additions to my work
Capitalism and Development in the Third World (1997), Introduction, Chapter 1.
The Politics of Global Competitiveness​ (2022), Home page, Overview, Chapter outlines
Short essays: The World Market, Marx's General Law of Social Production, Political Economy of the European Union, UK Uber Drivers and the Future of Work, ​The OECD, the World Bank, COVID-19 and Implications for Future Policy
Marx on social reproduction, Historical Materialism​, 28, 2, 2020, pp. 76-106.
Housework for wages - A theory of capitalism as patriarchy, Capital & Class, 49, 4, 2025, pp. 737-742.
The political economy of post-reproduction society, New Political Economy​, online first.
(Jointly with Martha Gimenez) The permanent global crisis of working-class social reproduction: ten propositions, Global Political Economy​, 4, 2, 2025, pp. 104-119.
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  • Home
    • spotlight
    • How to Read
  • latest
  • By year
    • 2026
    • 2025 >
      • Arcana of Reproduction
      • Capitalist Value Chains
      • Immanent Externalities
      • The Middle Income Trap
    • 2024 >
      • Depletion
      • Going Into Labour
      • Homes in Crisis Capitalism
      • Minor Detail
      • Politics of Migrant Labour
      • Rethinking Capitalist Development
      • Spectre of State Capitalism
      • Sick of It
    • 2023 >
      • Atlas Shrugged
      • Cannibal Capitalism
      • The Fountainhead
      • Global Political Economy
      • Migrants, Refugees and Societies
      • Mute Compulsion
    • 2022 >
      • Capitalism as Civilisation
      • Colonialism and Modern Social Theory
      • How China Escaped Shock Therapy
      • Gambling on Development
      • The Meddlers
      • Paradise
      • Worldmaking after Empire
    • 2021 >
      • Blind Spots in IPE
      • Brief History of Commercial Capital
      • Capitalism and the Sea
      • Challenges to the Liberal International Order
      • Marx in the Field
      • Power Shift
      • Political Economy of Southeast Asia
    • 2020 >
      • Double Lives
      • Earthlings
      • Engineering Rules
      • Feminism and the Politics of Resilience
      • Gender Politics and Competitiveness
      • Gendered States of Punishment and Welfare
      • Global Police State
      • Good Economics for Hard Times
      • Poor Economics
      • Trading for Development
      • Transnational Capital and European Integration
      • Women and Work
    • 2019 >
      • Age of Surveillance Capitalism
      • Beyond Debt
      • Dialectic of Sex
      • Full Surrogacy Now
      • Future of Work
      • International Organization and Industrial Change
      • Marx, Women and Capitalist Social Reproduction
      • New Silk Road
      • Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale
      • Reframing Convenience Food
      • Spirits of Resistance
      • The Testaments
    • 2018 >
      • Changing Nature of Work
      • China and Russia
      • Everyday Political Economy of Southeast Asia
      • Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis
      • Globalists
      • Marx, Capital and Madness
      • Marx's Capital, Method and Revolutionary Subjectivity
      • New Constitutionalism and World Order
      • New Way of the World
      • OECD and the International Political Economy
      • Securing the World Economy
      • Unlikely Partners
      • Y is for Yesterday
    • 2017 >
      • Beyond Defeat and Austerity
      • Beyond US Hegemony
      • Communism for Kids
      • Cutting the Gordian Knot
      • Globalization and Transnational Surrogacy
      • How the West Came to Rule
      • October
      • Post-Fordist Sexual Contract
      • The Quantified Self
      • Strong State and Free Economy
      • States of Discipline
      • The Sweatshop Regime
    • 2016 >
      • Capital Ideas
      • Crisis and Contradiction
      • Critical Perspectives on the Crisis of Global Governance
      • Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy
      • Global Crises and the Crisis of Global Leadership
      • Global Development Crisis
      • Globalisation and the critique of political economy
      • Governing the World?
      • Markets and Development
      • Marxism and the Oppression of Women
      • Marx on Gender and the Family
      • Power, Production and Social Reproduction
      • Return of the Public
      • Rules for the World
      • Scandalous Economics
      • Social Reproduction
      • Wombs in Labor
      • Women's Oppression Today
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    • Capitalism and Democracy in the Third World >
      • Introduction
      • Chapter 1
      • Chapter 2
    • Politics of Global Competitiveness >
      • Overview
      • Chapter outlines
      • New essays >
        • The World Market
        • Marx's General law of Social Production
        • Political economy of the EU
        • UK Uber drivers and the future of work
        • COVID-19
    • Working Papers Series >
      • Global Competitiveness >
        • PGC1
        • PGC2
        • PGC3
        • PGC4
        • PGC5
        • PGC6
        • PGC7
        • PGC10
      • MDBs and Global Financial Crisis >
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        • MDB2
        • MDB3
        • MDB4
        • MDB5
        • MDB6
        • MDB7
        • MDB8