Product Description: The recent global economic downturn has affected nearly everyone in every corner of the globe. Its vast reach and lingering effects have made it difficult to pinpoint its exact cause, and while some economists point to the risks inherent in the modern financial system, others blame long-term imbalances in the world economy...read more

Product Description: From August 2001 to February 2002, the Austrian conceptual artist Rainer Ganahl, who lives and works in New York, created a series of drawings entitled "Die letzten Tage der Sigmund Freud Banknote" (The Last Days of the Sigmund Freud Banknote)...read more

Product Description: Art and Its Time is an exciting exploration of the growing and important role that art plays in our lives. Paul Mattick takes the question "What is art?" as a starting point for a discussion of the historical nature of art and its evolution...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection of essays explores the rise of aesthetics as a response to, and as a part of, the reshaping of the arts in modern society. The theories of art developed under the name of 'aesthetics' in the eighteenth century have traditionally been understood as contributions to a field of study in existence since the time of Plato...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Provides a Marxian critique of the Keynesian approach to economic problems