For a Social Bailout For a Social Bailout
Let's reinvent progressive economic policy, starting with our own sovereign wealth fund to deal with urgent social needs.
Mar 27, 2008 / Robin Blackburn
Perishable Goods Perishable Goods
A new biography of economist Joseph Schumpeter explores his insights into the emerging world of globalized capitalism.
Sep 6, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Robin Blackburn
The New World Order The New World Order
Two new books examine the diverse and ambitious alliances that led to the end of slavery in America.
Oct 26, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Robin Blackburn
The True Story of Equiano 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 seafar...
Nov 2, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Robin Blackburn
Of Human Bondage 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...
Sep 16, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Robin Blackburn
You Had to Be There You Had to Be There
Robin Blackburn spent 1968 in Havana, Prague, Berlin and London.
Jan 22, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Robin Blackburn
The Bourgeois Revolutionary 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.
Jul 17, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Robin Blackburn
The Great Pension Crunch The Great Pension Crunch
How the crisis is destroying jobs--and what can be done about it.
Jan 30, 2003 / Feature / Robin Blackburn