For The New Statesman’s recent list of “Best of Academic Presses,” Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance by Melinda Cooper was selected as a Spring 2024 pick.Click here to learn more about the book. Click here to read the full list of books selected. An excerpt describing the book’s selection appears below:

“Here, Melinda Cooper moves away from the traditional schools of neoliberalism – Chicago and Geneva – and examines how the Virginia School responded to the capitalist crisis of the 1970s, deepening the divide between rich and poor and reviving the spectre of dynastic wealth.”