{"title":"Books by Geoff Mann","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781786634450","title":"Climate Leviathan","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow climate change will affect our political theory—for better and worse\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDespite the science and the summits, leading capitalist states have not achieved anything close to an adequate level of carbon mitigation. There is now simply no way to prevent the planet breaching the threshold of two degrees Celsius set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. What are the likely political and economic outcomes of this? Where is the overheating world heading?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo further the struggle for climate justice, we need to have some idea how the existing global order is likely to adjust to a rapidly changing environment. \u003ci\u003eClimate Leviathan\u003c\/i\u003e provides a radical way of thinking about the intensifying challenges to the global order. Drawing on a wide range of political thought, Joel Wainwright and Geoff Mann argue that rapid climate change will transform the world’s political economy and the fundamental political arrangements most people take for granted. The result will be a capitalist planetary sovereignty, a terrifying eventuality that makes the construction of viable, radical alternatives truly imperative.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56304953426293,"sku":"9781786634450","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781786634450_80d7c14e-96c0-4138-8893-4e965b0aa764.jpg?v=1786025650"},{"product_id":"9781784786007","title":"In the Long Run We Are All Dead","description":"\u003cb\u003eA groundbreaking debunking of moderate attempts to resolve financial crises\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the ruins of the 2007–2008 financial crisis, self-proclaimed progressives the world over clamored to resurrect the economic theory of John Maynard Keynes. The crisis seemed to expose the disaster of small-state, free-market liberalization and deregulation. Keynesian political economy, in contrast, could put the state back at the heart of the economy and arm it with the knowledge needed to rescue us. But what it was supposed to rescue us from was not so clear. Was it the end of capitalism or the end of the world? For Keynesianism, the answer is both. Keynesians are not and never have been out to save capitalism, but rather to save civilization from itself. It is political economy, they promise, for the world in which we actually live: a world in which prices are “sticky,” information is “asymmetrical,” and uncertainty inescapable. In this world, things will definitely not take care of themselves in the long run. Poverty is ineradicable, markets fail, and revolutions lead to tyranny. Keynesianism is thus modern liberalism’s most persuasive internal critique, meeting two centuries of crisis with a proposal for capital without capitalism and revolution without revolutionaries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf our current crises have renewed Keynesianism for so many, it is less because the present is worth saving, than because the future seems out of control. In that situation, Keynesianism is a perfect fit: a faith for the faithless.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56305246306677,"sku":"9781784786007","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781784786007_196cefba-e07f-42ba-ab97-2b0f5a198e07.jpg?v=1786026064"},{"product_id":"9781804295922","title":"The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn engaging chapter-by-chapter guide to the most important economics text of the twentieth century\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Maynard Keynes’s\u003ci\u003e General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money\u003c\/i\u003e revolutionized economics. But it can be dense and cryptic, an intimidating work for the uninitiated. This companion volume approaches the argument methodically and with clarity, explaining obscure terms and breaking down Keynes’s ideas and their significance for his time and ours. Award-winning economist and author Geoff Mann allows readers to comprehend why the word “Keynesian” has become so contentious today — and so important.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56369213079925,"sku":"9781804295922","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781804295922.jpg?v=1790000815"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-geoff-mann.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}