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Debates about the future of capitalism demonstrate the urgent need to envision and enact alternatives that can help tackle the multiple intertwined crises that societies are currently facing. This ground-breaking new series advances the international, comparative and interdisciplinary study of capitalism and its alternatives in the 21st Century.
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Capital to Commons
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Politics of the Gift
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The Future is Now
An Introduction to Prefigurative Politics
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Wendy Harcourt, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
Vasna Ramasar, Lund University, Sweden
Tom Malleson, King’s University College, Canada
Silvia Federici, Hofstra University, US
Richard D. Wolff, The New School for Social Research, US
Nancy Fraser, The New School for Social Research, US
Luke Martell, University of Sussex, UK
Laura Basu, openDemocracy and University of Utrecht, Netherlands
Juliet Schor, Boston College, US
Isabelle Ferreras, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Göran Therborn, University of Cambridge, UK
Gar Alperovitz, The Democracy Collective and the Next System Project, US
Francesca Forno, University of Trento, Italy
Flor Avelino, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Dutch Research Institute for Transitions, Netherlands
Emanuele Leonardi, University of Parma, Italy
David Bailey, University of Birmingham, UK
Ashish Kothari, Global Tapestry of Alternatives, India
Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, University College London, UK
Arturo Escobar, University of North Carolina, US
Albena Azmanova, Brussels School of International Studies, Belgium
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Luke Martell is Teaching Fellow and Professor of Sociology at the University of Sussex. His interests are socialism, social democracy, social alternatives, and global politics. He is author of Ecology and Society (Polity Press, 1994), co-author of New Labour (Polity Press, 1998), co-author of Blair’s Britain (Polity Press, 2002), and author of The Sociology of Globalization (Polity Press, 2010, second edition 2017).