“To know all the evidence. Ideally the student should never consider less than the total of the historical material which may conceivably be relevant to his enquiry. Though in many circumstances this will be an impossible counsel of perfection, it remains the only proper ambition.” —G.R. Elton, The Practice of History
We're a book club. We try to take the long view. Join us!
Our first book is Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty. To whet your appetite, here's a discussion of the book on The Economist's Free Exchange blog. A review by James K. Galbraith in Dissent. Doug Henwood's take in Bookforum. A roundtable at The American Prospect. Krugman in NYRB. On teaching and reading Rawls after Piketty.
Let's meet on Google+ Hangout.
May 6: Introduction and Part One
May 20: Part Two
June 10: Part Three
June 22: Part Four and Conclusion
David Harvey: The Limits to Capital (2007), Brief History of Neoliberalism (2007)
Robert Brenner: The Economics of Global Turbulence (2006)
David Graeber: Debt: The First 5,000 Years (2012)
Fredric Jameson: The Cultural Turn (2009)
Perry Anderson: Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism (1974), Lineages of Absolutist State (1974)
Ellen Meiksins Wood: The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View (2002)
Kenneth Pomeranz: The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy (2001)
Eric Hobsbawm: The Age of Revolution (1962), The Age of Capital (1975), The Age of Empire (1987), The Age of Extremes (1994)
Giovanni Arrighi: Long Twentieth Century (1994), Adam Smith in Beijing (2007)
John Maynard Keynes: General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936)
Ralph Miliband: The State in Capitalist Society (1967)
Antonio Gramsci: Prison Notebooks (1948-1951)
John Bellamy Foster: Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature (2000)
Silvia Federici: Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle (2012)
Lewis Mumford: Technics and Civilization (1934)