Capitalism 4.0: Economics, Politics, and Markets After the Crisis
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| Author | Yves Smith |
| ISBN | 0230620515 |
Why are we in such a financial mess today? There are lots of proximate causes: over-leverage, global imbalances, bad financial technology that lead to widespread underestimation of risk.
But these are all symptoms. Until we isolate and tackle fundamental causes, we will fail to extirpate the...
For nearly three decades, Washington has been in the grip of an economic orthodoxy defined by Ronald Reagan and embraced ardently by George W. Bush. It rests on four pillars: 1) Cut taxes on the wealthy, 2) Reduce regulation, 3) Fear inflation above all else, and 4) Insist on free-floating currency rates....
| Author | Derek Fagerstrom |
| ISBN | 0061998796 |
A new collection of fun, practical, and outrageous projects from the genius minds of the original Show Me How. Volume two of the Show Me How series contains brand-new instructions that show readers how to amaze, trick, create, style, and love, among other endeavors. Ideas range from the practical (hang...
| Author | James Bloodworth |
| ISBN | 1785900536 |
The best jobs in Britain today are overwhelmingly done by the offspring of privileged parents. Meanwhile, it is increasingly difficult for bright but poor children to transcend their circumstances. This state of affairs should not only worry the poor. It hurts the middle classes too, who are increasingly...
| Author | Christian Marazzi |
| ISBN | 1584350830 |
An innovative analysis of financialization in the context of postfordist cognitive capitalism.
This first English-language edition of Christian Marazzi's most recent book, The Violence of Financial Capitalism makes a groundbreaking work on the global financial crisis available to...
Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti-Globalization in the Era of Trump
| Author | Joseph E. Stiglitz |
| ISBN | 0393355225 |
In this crucial expansion and update of his landmark bestseller, renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz addresses globalization’s new discontents in the United States and Europe. Immediately upon publication, Globalization and Its Discontents became a touchstone in...
| Author | Guy Verhofstadt |
| ISBN | 0465096859 |
In the heart of Europe's current crisis, one of the continent's foremost statesmen issues a clarion call to radically remake the European Union in the mold of the United States' own federal government
Europe is caught in its greatest crisis since the Second World War. The catalog of ills seems endless:...
Zorgen de financiële crisis en de groeiende ongelijkheid voor een nieuw keerpunt in de machtsverhouding tussen vrije markt en overheid? Krijgen we een omverwerping van het kapitalisme en neemt de staat de macht weer over?
Na een decennialange triomftocht is het kapitalisme goed op weg...
In The Joy of Tax, tax campaigner and creator of ‘Corbynomics’, Richard Murphy challenges almost every idea you have about tax. For him, tax is fundamentally about the ideas that shape the sort of society we want to live in, not technicalities. His intention is to demonstrate that there is indeed...
| Author | Guy Standing |
| ISBN | 1785900447 |
"In this thoughtful book, Guy Standing focuses on the central problem of modern capitalism—the tendency of great wealth to transform itself into political power that corrupts the political process and generates laws and regulations favouring the wealthy—and suggests useful and important...
| Author | Anne-Marie Slaughter |
From a renowned foreign-policy expert, a new paradigm for strategy in the twenty-first century
In 1961, Thomas Schelling’s The Strategy of Conflict used game theory to radically reenvision the U.S.-Soviet relationship and establish the basis of international relations for the rest...
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Prize joins a leading expert on the global economy to present an incisive narrative of the risks and opportunities that are emerging as the balance of power shifts around the world between governments and markets -- and the battle over globalization comes front...
| Author | Michael Jacobs |
| ISBN | 1119120950 |
Western capitalism is in crisis. For decades investment has been falling, living standards have stagnated or declined, and inequality has risen dramatically. Economic policy has neither reformed the financial system nor restored stable growth. Climate change meanwhile poses increasing risks...
| Author | Ann Pettifor |
| ISBN | 1786631342 |
What is money, where does it come from, and who controls it?
In this accessible, brilliantly argued book, leading political economist Ann Pettifor explains in straightforward terms history’s most misunderstood invention: the money system. Pettifor argues that democracies can, and...
Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education
| Author | Gary S. Becker |
| ISBN | 0226041204 |
Human Capital is Becker's classic study of how investment in an individual's education and training is similar to business investments in equipment. Recipient of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Economic Science, Gary S. Becker is a pioneer of applying economic analysis to human behavior in such areas as discrimination,...
Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order
| Author | Michel Chossudovsky |
| ISBN | 0973714700 |
Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order outlines the contours of a New World Order which feeds on human poverty and the destruction of the environment, generates social apartheid, encourages racism and ethnic strife and undermines the rights of women. This book is a skilful combination of...
| Author | Steve Keen |
| ISBN | 1509513728 |
The Great Financial Crash had cataclysmic effects on the global economy, and took conventional economists completely by surprise. Many leading commentators declared shortly before the crisis that the magical recipe for eternal stability had been found. Less than a year later, the biggest economic...
Pax Technica: How the Internet of Things May Set Us Free or Lock Us Up
| Author | Philip N. Howard |
| ISBN | 0300199473 |
A foremost digital expert looks at the most powerful political tool ever created—the internet of things. Will it be like the internet of surveillance and censorship we have now, or will it be something better?
Should we fear or welcome the internet’s evolution? The “internet of things”...
| Author | L. Randall Wray |
| ISBN | 0230368891 |
Mind boggled, jaw dropped, head scratched; this book was a gem of a read!
While I'm not totally sold on Modern Money Theory - MMT, I believe this is due to my own cynicism towards its novelty rather than to flaws in the theory. I could only come up with "I feel that there is a weakness in the logical...
| Author | Heinrich Geiselberger |
| ISBN | 1509522387 |
We are living through a period of dramatic political change - Brexit, the election of Trump, the rise of extreme right movements in Europe and elsewhere, the resurgence of nationalism and xenophobia and a concerted assault on the liberal values and ideals associated with cosmopolitanism and globalization....
| Author | Clayton M. Christensen |
| ISBN | 0062851837 |
Clayton M. Christensen, the author of such business classics as The Innovator’s Dilemma and the New York Times bestseller How Will You Measure Your Life, and co-authors Efosa Ojomo and Karen Dillon reveal why so many investments in economic development fail to generate sustainable prosperity,...
| Author | Danny Dorling |
| ISBN | 1847424260 |
Few would dispute that we live in an unequal and unjust world, but what causes this inequality to persist? In the new paperback edition of this timely book, Danny Dorling, a leading social commentator and academic, claims that in rich countries inequality is no longer caused by not having enough resources...
| Author | James Fulcher |
| ISBN | 0192802186 |
This Introduction explores the origins of capitalism and questions whether it did indeed originate in Europe. It examines a distinctive stage in the development of capitalism that began in the 1980s, in order to understand where we are now and how capitalism has evolved since. The book discusses the...
Britain’s leading radical delivers an eviscerating attack on the indistinguishable political elite of the UK.What is to be done in the twilight of democracy? What is the point of elections? The result is always the same: a victory for the Extreme Centre. Since 1989, politics has become a contest...
| Author | Benedict Anderson |
| ISBN | 1844670376 |
In this sparkling new work, Benedict Anderson provides a radical recasting of themes from Imagined Communities, his classic book on nationalism, through an exploration of fin-de-siecle politics and culture that spans the Caribbean, Imperial Europe and the South China Sea.
A jewelled...
