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Book Reviews: 'Where Do My Values Come From?', 'A Guide to Marx's Capital', & 'No Local'

Values

Where Do My Values Come From? - And How To Attain Social Sustainability. By Thomas M.V. Hallatt & Dale M.R. Hallatt. Kindle eBook.

Instead of chasing the chimerical 'values' that may lurk inside the heads of private individuals, the focus of this book is human behaviour as it is shaped by and shapes the cultural referents that make up a 'value system'. The authors undertake their investigation using an interdisciplinary approach with case studies to illustrate their argument. The focus is on four fields from the human sciences: genetics, neuroscience, physiology and environmental psychology.

Book Reviews: 'The Accumulation of Freedom - Writings on Anarchist Economics', 'Beyond The Global Capitalist Crisis'

Anarchist economics

The Accumulation of Freedom: Writings on Anarchist Economics. AK Press. 2012

Book Reviews: 'Why Marx Was Right', 'Speak for Britain!', 'The Political Economy of Development'

Marx was righter than this

Why Marx Was Right. By Terry Eagleton (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2011) £16.99

Was Marx right? As Terry Eagleton points out in the preface to this book, of course he wasn’t. No thinker gets everything right, nor can any reasonable person expect them to. But was Marx “right enough of the time about enough important issues to make calling oneself a Marxist a reasonable self-description”? In this sense, Eagleton says the answer is yes. And Eagleton is right.

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