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BankingMarch 27, 2008
For a Social Bailout
Let’s reinvent progressive economic policy, starting with our own sovereign wealth fund to deal with urgent social needs.
Robin Blackburn
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EconomicsSeptember 6, 2007
Perishable Goods
A new biography of economist Joseph Schumpeter explores his insights into the emerging world of globalized capitalism.
Robin Blackburn
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HistoryOctober 26, 2006
The New World Order
Two new books examine the diverse and ambitious alliances that led to the end of slavery in America.
Robin Blackburn
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BiographyNovember 2, 2005
The True Story of Equiano
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.
Robin Blackburn
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HistorySeptember 16, 2004
Of Human Bondage
In the sequence of revolutions that remade the Atlantic world between 1776 and 1825, the Haitian Revolution is rarely given its due, yet without it the progressive credentials of the others would
Robin Blackburn
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HistoryJanuary 22, 2004
You Had to Be There
Robin Blackburn spent 1968 in Havana, Prague, Berlin and London.
Robin Blackburn
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BiographyJuly 17, 2003
The Bourgeois Revolutionary
Publishers, even academic presses, know that the public likes biography and cater to this taste with a stream of handsomely produced, and often quite well-written, volumes.
Robin Blackburn
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CorporationsJanuary 30, 2003
The Great Pension Crunch
How the crisis is destroying jobs–and what can be done about it.
Robin Blackburn