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Peter Clarke, Keynes: The Rise, Fall, and Return of the 20th Century's Most Influential Economist Bloomsbury, 2009

John Maynard Keynes died in 1946, but Keynesianism, in one form or another, is alive and well: the British economist's name has been invoked repeatedly since the global economic meltdown began in 2008. But how much do we really know about Keynes, and what did he really say and write? Peter Clarke has written a new book about Keynes's life and ideas. (Holiday encore presentation.)

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Peter Clarke, Keynes: The Rise, Fall, and Return of the 20th Century's Most Influential Economist Bloomsbury, 2009

John Maynard Keynes died in 1946, but Keynesianism, in one form or another, is alive and well: the British economist's name has been invoked repeatedly since the global economic meltdown began in 2008. But how much do we really know about Keynes, and what did he really say and write? Peter Clarke has written a new book about Keynes's life and ideas.

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Jason W. Moore, "Ecological Crises and the Agrarian Question in World-Historical Perspective" Monthly Review (Nov. 2008)

It's become a truism on the left that we are facing a twin crisis of capitalism and the environment. But what is the nature of those crises or -- as historian and political economist Jason W. Moore sees it -- crisis? What does the long view, historically speaking, tell us about the crisis today? And what are the implications for the Left of seeing the social-economic and the ecological as constitutive of each other?