Environmental Radicalism: The Extremes and the Earth
by Mark Engler
by Mark Engler
Tree Spiker: From Earth First! To Lowbagging: My Struggles in Radical Environmental Action
by Mike Roselle with Josh Mahan
St. Martin's Press, 2009, 272 pp., $24.99
Operation Bite Back: Rod Cor...
Muhammad Yunus:
From Microcredit to a World Without Profit?
by Mark Engler
From Microcredit to a World Without Profit?
by Mark Engler
Muhammad Yunus, the Bangladeshi economist, godfather of microcredit, and founder of the now-famous Grameen Bank, enchants many different types of people with his imaginings of a better future. A popul...
The Ascent of Niall Ferguson
by Mark Engler
by Mark Engler
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
by Niall Ferguson
Penguin Press, 2008 432 pp $29.95
NESTLED IN the acknowledgments at the end of Niall Ferguson’s new “financial history of ...
Capitalism as Catastrophe
by Mark Engler
by Mark Engler
The Shock Doctrine:
The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
by Naomi Klein
Metropolitan Books, 2007, 576 pp $28
A strange contradiction afflicts nonhierarchical social movements. Those activists wh...
Globalization's Mad Scientist: On Joseph Stiglitz
by Mark Engler
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by Mark Engler
BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ESSAY
The Rebel Within: Joseph Stiglitz and the World Bank
ed. by Ha-Joon Chang
Anthem Press, 2001 300 pp $29.95
Globalization and Its Discontents
by Joseph E. Stiglit...
The Day After: Keep Obama Accountable
by Mark Engler (online)
by Mark Engler (online)
ON ELECTION Day 2004, I worked on a get-out-the-vote drive for John Kerry in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. After a long day, the polls had closed, and I started my drive home to Brooklyn, listening to e...
Labor Day: Immigrants Build the U.S. Economy
by Mark Engler
by Mark Engler
Undocumented immigrants streaming into this country from south of the border drive down wages and steal jobs that could otherwise go to out-of-work Americans. Right?
Wrong. As it turns out, immigra...
Presidents Don't Like To Be Pressured
by Mark Engler
by Mark Engler
During the first year of the Obama administration, there was a historical anecdote that was exceedingly popular on the Left. It went something like this: amid the Great Depression, a prominent labor l...
Have You Gotten Rich Yet as a Microlender?
by Mark Engler
by Mark Engler
Those looking to make fistfuls of cash by lending to the poor will already be aware of the following news item, but the rest of you might have missed it: a recent big initial public stock offering was...
Using the Tea Party to Split the Right
by Mark Engler
by Mark Engler
Are you a Democratic congressional candidate in a tight electoral contest? Here's an idea: Help to recruit a Tea Party candidate to enter the general election and siphon off voters from your Republica...
Gaming The Price Is Right
by Mark Engler
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by Mark Engler
There is a beautifully written story over at Esquire about how a small group of people bested the longest-running game show in television history, The Price Is Right. In nearly four decades, no one ha...
