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Robin Blackburn

Robin Blackburn, distinguished visiting professor at the New School for Social Research and former editor of New Left Review, is the author of The Making of New World Slavery, The Overthrow of Colonial Slavery and, most recently, Age Shock and Pension Power: How Finance Is Failing Us (all by Verso).

Currently

  • For a Social Bailout

    March 27, 2008

    Let's reinvent progressive economic policy, starting with our own sovereign wealth fund to deal with urgent social needs.

2007

  • Perishable Goods

    September 6, 2007 Subscribe

    A new biography of economist Joseph Schumpeter explores his insights into the emerging world of globalized capitalism.

2006

  • The New World Order

    October 26, 2006 Subscribe

    Two new books examine the diverse and ambitious alliances that led to the end of slavery in America.

2005

  • The True Story of Equiano

    November 2, 2005 Subscribe

    Vincent Carretta's Equiano, the African is the complex narrative of a Carolina slave who bought his freedom, married an English woman and published a memoir on his life as a seafarer and gentleman.

2004

2003

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