Product Description: Modern societies currently lack positive alternative visions of the future. Many writers have claimed that the only option is a return to free-market capitalism, in which success and survival depend on being as competitive as possible whether as a nation, firm or individual...read more

Product Description: In this reissued collection of essays, first published in 1985, Paul Q. Hirst assesses the limits of the Marxist theory of history in its various versions. It begins with an extended critical discussion of Perry Anderson and Edward Thompson, and includes chapters on G...read more

Product Description: Constitutional reform is one of the most important issues in British politics, drawing in contributions from many diverse areas. This wide-ranging volume, published in association with Charter 88, provides a source-book for the controversy...read more

Product Description: Representative democracy today is subject to intense debate. New forms of representation and new ways of organising the interaction between state and society are currently much discussed. In this new work, Paul Hirst assesses these debates and soberly offers a way through their problems and challenges...read more

Product Description: This book offers new and radical views on British industrial decline and policies to remedy it.