Robert Went's Globalization: Neoliberal Challenge, Radical Responses (IIRE Notebook for Study and Research no. 31/32) is clearly the biggest hit yet of the IIRE/Pluto Press book series. So big in fact that the first run of 1500 copies has sold out. Pluto has now done a second printing of the book, and the IIRE has placed an additional order. So if your local bookstore told you it was out of print, it isn't any more. And if you want to order it from the IIRE, ordering information is on our website.

The critical response has also been positive. Among more mainstream reviewers, Choice said, "Went's book fills a need for anyone seeking a clear, concise statement of a particular radical view, or a short introductory critique of globalization." Christopher May in The Lecturer wrote that Globalization "is an excellent counter-balance to the celebratory accounts which have had a certain currency". Moving further left, Labour Left Briefing commented, "Robert Went's monograph is one of the most succint critiques of globalisation you're likely to see", including "a good list of remedies".

Went has gone on to deepen the economic analysis contained in our Notebook. His University of Amsterdam thesis further analyzing the three circuits of capital in today's globalized economy and critiquing classical and neoclassical free trade theory will be published later this year by Routledge as The Enigma of Globalization.