Kate Holbrook, Ann S. Kim, Brian Palmer, Anna Portnoy (eds.): Global Values 101: A Short Course (2006)

Global Values 101 grew out of one of the most popular courses ever offered at Harvard University, in which some of the most original thinkers of our day sat down with students and explored how ideas have made them-and can make us-more engaged, involved, and compassionate citizens. In these engrossing, essay-length interviews, which address the topics of war, religion, the global economy, and social change, Amy Goodman, host of the popular radio program Democracy Now, speaks about the role of the independent media as gatekeeper and witness; Lani Guinier, author of Tyranny of the Majority, reveals that students’ SAT scores more accurately describe the kind of car their parents drive than the grades they will earn in college and shows the way to a more equitable college admissions system; Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States, explores the American Dream and exposes the myth of the “good war”; economist Juliet Schor, author of Born to Buy and The Overspent American, explains why Americans are willing to sacrifice quality of life to attain financial success; former “mall rat” Naomi Klein, author of No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, urges readers to go global while fighting global conglomerates; and Katha Pollitt, author of Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism, employs her incisive wit to explore what it really means to be a feminist in the Twenty First century.

For anyone who has been moved by idealism and longed to become a more proactive citizen, this collection offers a range of stories on how progressive ethics can inform, inspire, and ultimately transform lives.

Publisher Beacon Press, 2006
ISBN 0807003050, 9780807003053
276 pages

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Readings For Artworkers, No. 2: Creative Industries and Knowledge Factories: Analysis and Resistance (2010)

“Journal of the Free / Slow University of Warsaw provides a summary of another year of activity of our educational para-institution. In 2010 we continued our critical reflection on the transformation of the public sphere in Poland. We analysed the current changes in creative and cultural circulation, in the world of independent initiatives, official institutions of art, academies and universities. We organised: 12 open seminars from the cycle Readers for Artworkers hosted by sociologists, artists, curators and activists; Second Congress of the Free / Slow University of Warsaw – Creative Industries and Knowledge Factories: Analysis and Resistance participated by educators, artists, activists and cultural theorists from the entire Europe. The present report includes texts and transcriptions that summarise our seminars, the congress and debates organised by the FSUW in 2010.”

Journal of Free/Slow University of Warsaw, Poland, 2010
Culture, Not Profit series
FSUW curators: Kuba Szreder, Jan Sowa
Edited by: Arek Gruszczyński, Bogna Świątkowska, Joanna Turek, Szymon Żydek
Transcription: Joanna Turek, Zuzanna Stańska, Katarzyna Maniak

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Minqi Li: The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World-Economy (2008)

China’s increasing power in the global economy is destabilizing the established system. This book analyses the possible historical trajectories of China and the capitalist world-economy in the twenty-first century.

Minqi Li examines the future global prospects from the perspectives of Marxism, world-system theories, and ecological limits to growth. He argues that China is likely to exacerbate many of the major contradictions of world capitalism, which could lead to the demise of the existing world-system.

This is an essential text for students of political economy, economics and global politics.

Publisher Pluto Press, 2008
ISBN 0745327729, 9780745327723
208 pages

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