Problems of Late Capitalism
Top 10 Problems of Late Capitalism
: This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist, Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism, Body Horror: Capitalism, Fear, Misogyny, Jokes, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?, Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power, and Public Resistance, One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America, The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
| Author | Naomi Klein |
| ISBN | 1451697384 |
Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon – it's about capitalism. The good news is that we can seize this crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better.
In her most provocative book yet, Naomi Klein, author of...
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
| Author | Naomi Klein |
| ISBN | 0805079831 |
In her ground-breaking reporting from Iraq, Naomi Klein exposed how the trauma of invasion was being exploited to remake the country in the interest of foreign corporations. She called it "disaster capitalism." Covering Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, and New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed...
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
| Author | Kate Raworth |
| ISBN | 1847941389 |
Economics is broken. It has failed to predict, let alone prevent, financial crises that have shaken the foundations of our societies. Its outdated theories have permitted a world in which extreme poverty persists while the wealth of the super-rich grows year on year. And its blind spots have led to...
Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism
Eclectic thinkers, brought together by the bestselling author of "City of Quartz," meditate on future worlds being created by unfettered capitalism.
"Not content with existing offshore tax shelters, multi-millionaires and property developers have aspired to build their own....To...
| Author | Anne Elizabeth Moore |
| ISBN | 1940430887 |
Unspeakable acts are committed on women's bodies under capitalism everyday. In Body Horror, Anne Elizabeth Moore explores the global toll of capitalism on women with thorough research, surprising humor, and ease—especially when examining her own experiences with disease and health care—to...
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
| Author | Mark Fisher |
| ISBN | 1846943175 |
After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system - a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. The book analyses the development and principal features of this capitalist realism as a lived ideological...
Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power, and Public Resistance
| Author | Heidi Boghosian |
| ISBN | 0872865991 |
"With ex-CIA staffer Edward Snowden's leaks about National Security Agency surveillance in the headlines, Heidi Boghosian’s Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance, Corporate Power, and Public Resistance feels especially timely. Boghosian reveals how the government acquires information...
One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America
| Author | Kevin M. Kruse |
| ISBN | 0465049494 |
The provocative and authoritative history of the origins of Christian America in the New Deal era
We’re often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse reveals that the belief that America is fundamentally...
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
| Author | George Packer |
| ISBN | 1466836954 |
A riveting examination of a nation in crisis, from one of the finest political journalists of our generation
American democracy is beset by a sense of crisis. Seismic shifts during a single generation have created a country of winners and losers, allowing unprecedented freedom while rending...
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
| Author | Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
| ISBN | 1400067820 |
From the bestselling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost philosophers of our time, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a book on how some systems actually benefit from disorder.
In The Black Swan Taleb outlined a problem; in Antifragile he offers a definitive solution: how to gain from disorder...
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
| Author | Timothy Snyder |
| ISBN | 0804190119 |
A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism.
On November 9th, millions of Americans woke up to the impossible: the election of Donald Trump as president. Against all predictions, one of the most-disliked presidential candidates...
| Author | Philip Mirowski |
| ISBN | 1781680795 |
At the onset of the Great Recession, as house prices sank and joblessness soared, many commentators concluded that the economic convictions behind the disaster would now be consigned to history. Yet in the harsh light of a new day, attacks against government intervention and the global drive for austerity...
Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism
| Author | Kevin Phillips |
| ISBN | 0670019070 |
The bestselling author reveals how the U.S. financial sector has hijacked our economy and put America�s global future at risk
In American Theocracy, Kevin Phillips warned us of the perilous interaction of debt, financial recklessness, and the increasing cost of scarce oil. The current...
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
| Author | Shoshana Zuboff |
| ISBN | 1610395697 |
The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior.
In this masterwork of original thinking and research,...
Ukraine: Zbig's Grand Chessboard & How the West Was Checkmated
| Author | Natylie Baldwin |
| ISBN | 0990661466 |
Zbigniew Brzezinski’s The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives has long been the operative canon for State Department Hawks, Neoconservatives and Russophobes. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the implementation of Zbig’s Grand strategy has moved at a feverish...
Optimism over Despair: On Capitalism, Empire, and Social Change
| Author | Noam Chomsky |
| ISBN | 1608467996 |
This volume offers readers a concise and accessible introduction to the ideas of Noam Chomsky, described by the New York Times as “arguably the most important intellectual alive.”
In these recent, wide-ranging interviews, conducted for Truthout by C. J. Polychroniou, Chomsky discusses...
Reluctant Capitalists: Bookselling and the Culture of Consumption
| Author | Laura J. Miller |
| ISBN | 0226525910 |
Over the past half-century, bookselling, like many retail industries, has evolved from an arena dominated by independent bookstores to one in which chain stores have significant market share. And as in other areas of retail, this transformation has often been a less-than-smooth process. This has...
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
| Author | Arlie Russell Hochschild |
| ISBN | 1620972255 |
In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country – a stronghold of the conservative right. As she gets to know people who strongly oppose...
America: The Farewell Tour
Chris Hedges’s profound and provocative examination of America in crisis is “an exceedingly…provocative book, certain to arouse controversy, but offering a point of view that needs to be heard” (Booklist), about how bitter hopelessness and malaise have resulted in a culture of sadism...
Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future
| Author | Paul Mason |
| ISBN | 1846147387 |
From Paul Mason, the award-winning Channel 4 presenter, Postcapitalism is a guide to our era of seismic economic change, and how we can build a more equal society.
Over the past two centuries or so, capitalism has undergone continual change - economic cycles that lurch from boom to bust - and...
| Author | Maude Barlow |
| ISBN | 1565848136 |
In this “chilling, in-depth examination of a rapidly emerging global crisis” (In These Times), Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, two of the most active opponents to the privatization of water show how, contrary to received wisdom, water mainly flows uphill to the wealthy. Our most basic resource...
The Great Suppression: Voting Rights, Corporate Cash, and the Conservative Assault on Democracy
A deeply reported look inside the new conservative movement working to undermine American democracy.
Control of the country is up for grabs—and Republicans have been rigging the game in their favor. Twenty-two states have passed restrictions on voting. Ruthless gerrymandering has...
Crashing the Party: Taking on the Corporate Government in an Age of Surrender
| Author | Ralph Nader |
| ISBN | 0312302584 |
Ralph Nader is one of America's most passionate and effective social critics. He has been called a muckraker, a consumer crusader, and America's public defender. The cars we drive, the food we eat, the water we drink-their safety has been enhanced largely due to Ralph Nader. His inspiration and example...
The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation
| Author | Rod Dreher |
| ISBN | 0735213291 |
In a radical new vision for the future of Christianity, NYT bestselling author and conservative columnist Rod Dreher calls on American Christians to prepare for the coming Dark Age by embracing an ancient Christian way of life.
The light of the Christian faith is flickering out all over the...
| Author | Arianna Huffington |
| ISBN | 1400051266 |
Who filled the trough? Who set the table at the banquet of greed? How has it been possible for corporate pigs to gorge themselves on grossly inflated pay packages and heaping helpings of stock options while the average American struggles to make do with their leftovers?
Provocative political...
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
| Author | Matthew Desmond |
| ISBN | 0553447432 |
In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of 21st-century...
The Euro: How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe
In 2010, the 2008 global financial crisis morphed into the “eurocrisis.” It has not abated. The 19 countries of Europe that share the euro currency—the eurozone—have been rocked by economic stagnation and debt crises. Some countries have been in depression for years while the governing...
