"Radical Agrarian Economics" by Anna Faktorovich is Now Available for Review

Atlanta, GA, October 04, 2014 --(PR.com)-- Radical Agrarian Economics: Wendell Berry and Beyond: ($20, ISBN: 978-1-937536-91-6, LCCN: 2014917270, 180pp, 6X9″, 7 photos, bibliography, index, Forthcoming: January 30, 2015): This is a comparative study of Wendell Berry’s theory of New Agrarian economics in contrast with other agrarian proposals, as well as communist, capitalist and feudal economic theories. The argument for an agrarian world has both similarities and sharp contrasts with Marxist communism, industrial capitalism, and classic feudalism. Agrarianism can be seen more clearly when it is contrasted and shown as having existed in parallel with each of these stages of economic world development. As the world quickly grows in the direction of overpopulation and pollution, a re-evaluation is needed of the previously used sustainability methods that have kept humanity in balance with the earth for millennia. As resources continue to become scarcer, those who can support themselves independently from mass-agricultural ventures might have a survival advantage. And this advantage should be explored before the world reaches a catastrophic phase. As the American farming population shrinks further below one percent of the overall population, this is a crucial moment to consider if agrarianism and agriculture itself should retain a central role in American political theory or if it should fade into the past.

Anna Faktorovich is the Director and Founder of the Anaphora Literary Press. Previously, she taught college English for three years at the Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and the Middle Georgia State College. She has a Ph.D. in English Literature and Criticism. She published two academic books: "Rebellion as Genre in the Novels of Scott, Dickens and Stevenson (McFarland, 2013) and The Formulas of Popular Fiction: Elements of Fantasy," "Science Fiction, Romance, Religious and Mystery Novels" (McFarland, 2014). Her other publications include: two poetry collections: Improvisational Arguments (Fomite Press, 2011) and Battle for Athens (Anaphora, 2012), historical novels: "The Romances of George Sand" (Anaphora, 2014) and the forthcoming, "The Battle for Democracy" (Anaphora, 2015), fantasy novellas: "The Great Love of Queen Margaret, the Vampire (Grim’s Labyrinth, 2014) and The Campaigns against the Olden: Kindoms of Laruta" (Grim’s Labyrinth, 2014), an illustrated children’s book, "The Sloths and I" (Anaphora, 2013), and the "Book Production Guide" (Anaphora, 2014). She has been editing and writing for the independent, tri-annual Pennsylvania Literary Journal since 2009.

The Anaphora Literary Press was started as an academic press with the publication of the Pennsylvania Literary Journal (PLJ) in 2009. In the Winter of 2010, Anaphora began accepting book-length submissions. Anaphora has now published over 90 creative and non-fiction books. John Paul Jaramillo’s collection of short stories received an honorable mention for the Latino Literacy Now’s Mariposa Award Best First Fiction Book Award. Professors have taught from a few Anaphora books. Many Anaphora writers have scheduled readings at major bookstores. Anaphora books have also had several articles published about them in regional newspapers. PLJ has featured interviews with best-selling writers like Larry Niven, and Cinda Williams Chima, as well as interviews with the winners of the Sundance and Brooklyn Film festivals.