Institutional Critique

39 books

On the French Revolution cover
Rating 4.8
On the French Revolution 埃德蒙·柏克 / 何兆武 / 许振洲 / 彭刚 The Commercial Press · 2024 Written the year after the outbreak of the French Revolution, this book—together with the work written two years before the Revolution by the English …
On Equality cover
Rating 4.2
On Equality R.H.托尼 / 高景柱 / 曹钦 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2023 R. H. Tawney (1880–1962) was a prominent British economist, historian, educator, and social critic of the early twentieth century. Equality is the rep…
Ten Years and Ten Months in Lunatic Asylums in Different States cover
Rating 3.2
Ten Years and Ten Months in Lunatic Asylums in Different States Swan, Moses, 1812- Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
Slavery in Pennsylvania cover
Rating 3.3
Slavery in Pennsylvania Turner, Edward Raymond, 1881-1929 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of Its Establishment to cover
Rating 3.9
The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of Its Establishment to Llorente, Juan Antonio, 1756-1823 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
Peonage cover
Rating 3.3
Peonage Hershaw, Lafayette M., 1863-1945 Project Gutenberg · 2023 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
Slavery: What It Was, What It Has Done, What It Intends to Do cover
Rating 2.6
Slavery: What It Was, What It Has Done, What It Intends to Do Tompkins, Cydnor Bailey, 1810-1862 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
The House of the Dead: Siberia's Exile System Under the Tsars cover
Rating 4.2
The House of the Dead: Siberia's Exile System Under the Tsars 丹尼尔·比尔 / 孔俐颖 Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2019 Siberia has been called "a vast prison without a roof." From the early nineteenth century to the Russian Revolution, the tsarist regime exiled more th…
Marx's Anti-Poverty Thought and Its Contemporary Chinese Practice cover
Rating 3.4
Marx's Anti-Poverty Thought and Its Contemporary Chinese Practice 欧阳夏菲 Shanghai People's Publishing House · 2026 Through a panoramic examination of Marx's anti-poverty thought, this book distills its contributions, traces its relationship to Marx's broader theory…
Commentary on Waiting for the Dawn cover
Rating 4.0
Commentary on Waiting for the Dawn 董成龙 Chongqing University Press · 2026 The *Waiting for the Dawn* (Mingyi Daifanglu) combines an examination of classical scholarly principles with political-historical analysis and a strat…
The Last Line of Defense: The Future of Financial Crises and Emergency Market Rescue cover
Rating 3.9
The Last Line of Defense: The Future of Financial Crises and Emergency Market Rescue 埃里克·波斯纳 / 朱工宇 / 刘熹微 Truth & Wisdom Press · 2026 This book focuses on the legality of government bailouts during economic crises. How to evaluate government bailout measures in a crisis is a favorite…
After Becoming a Single Mother cover
Rating 3.8
After Becoming a Single Mother 黑川祥子 / 韩晓丹 Shanghai Translation Publishing House · 2025 Women's poverty is structural. In 1985, Japan enacted the Equal Employment Opportunity Act, a law intended to achieve gender equality that instead wov…
If We Will Die at 25 cover
Rating 3.9
If We Will Die at 25 砂川雨路 / 丁丁虫 New Star Press · 2025 "Our" everyday life is so abnormal. An unknown toxin has ravaged the earth for centuries. The world's population has plummeted, and average life expec…
Financial House of Cards: The American Economy Under the Control of Financial Oligarchs cover
Rating 3.9
Financial House of Cards: The American Economy Under the Control of Financial Oligarchs 约翰·科茨 / 陈锐珊 China Friendship Publishing Company · 2024 An unprecedented concentration of power—America's four largest index fund giants, Vanguard, State Street, Fidelity, and BlackRock, control over 20% of…
Trademark Law: Principles and Cases cover
Rating 3.9
Trademark Law: Principles and Cases 刘维 Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press · 2024 This book attempts to connect trademark law theory and practice, proceeding from three angles—principles, institutions, and cases—taking textual insti…
The Longer View: Collected Essays in Political Economy cover
Rating 4.1
The Longer View: Collected Essays in Political Economy 保罗·巴兰 / 李建利 / 王凤 / 张蓉 The Commercial Press · 2023 Paul Baran is widely known for The Political Economy of Growth and, with Paul Sweezy, Monopoly Capital. Nearly a decade separated these two major work…
Collected Works of the Master Historian Wu Han (3 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.0
Collected Works of the Master Historian Wu Han (3 Volumes) Wu Han Beijing Standway Books Co., Ltd. · 2023 This set includes The Biography of Zhu Yuanzhang, The Lessons of History, and The Ming Dynasty's Jinyiwei and Eastern and Western Depots.
Capitalist Public Finance cover
Rating 4.1
Capitalist Public Finance 王传纶 The Commercial Press · 2022 This book discusses the basic categories and historical development of capitalist public finance, fiscal expenditure in capitalist countries, taxation…
The Ruler and His Ministers, Part Two cover
Rating 4.1
The Ruler and His Ministers, Part Two 商鞅 Nanhai Publication Company · 2024 Shang Yang (c. 395–338 BCE) was a statesman, reformer, and thinker of the Warring States period and a leading figure of Legalism. A native of Wey (pre…
An Essay on the Trial by Jury cover
Rating 4.0
An Essay on the Trial by Jury Spooner, Lysander, 1808-1887 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …