
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
In this revelatory book, Ha-Joon Chang destroys the biggest myths of our times and shows us an alternative view of the world, including: There's no...
View full detailsIn this revelatory book, Ha-Joon Chang destroys the biggest myths of our times and shows us an alternative view of the world, including: There's no...
View full detailsWhat causes poverty? Are economic crises inevitable under capitalism? Is government intervention in an economy a helpful approach or a disastrous i...
View full detailsNew technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. In the past, such fears have been misplaced, and many economi...
View full detailsIn his most practical book to date, financial expert and investment advisor James Rickards shows how and why our financial markets are being artifi...
View full detailsTough times don't last. Tough people do. In The Black Swan, Taleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everyth...
View full detailsArtistic labour was exemplary for Utopian Socialist theories of 'attractive labour', and Marxist theories of 'nonalienated labour', but the rise of...
View full detailsThe controversial science that claims to have revolutionised economics. For centuries, economics was dominated by the idea that we are rational ind...
View full detailsBusinesses have a big role to play in a capitalist society. They can tip the scales toward the benefit of the few, with toxic side effects for all,...
View full detailsAmazon is the business story of the decade. Jeff Bezos, the richest man on the planet, has built one of the most efficient wealth-creation machines...
View full detailsBe honest: if your job didn't exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered why not? Up to 40% of us secretly believe our jobs probably aren...
View full detailsThe expansion of capitalism and neoliberal ideologies have delivered economic integration between countries and brought global inter-connectedness ...
View full detailsSince the opening up of India's economy in 1991, wealth has poured into the country, and especially into Delhi. Capital bears witness to the astoni...
View full detailsEarly in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangibl...
View full detailsIn Capitalism: A Ghost Story, best-selling writer Arundhati Roy examines the dark side of Indian democracy--a nation of 1.2 billion, where the coun...
View full detailsillustrated by Piero Capitalism shapes every aspect of our world, beyond just our economic structures; it moulds our values and influences the way ...
View full detailsIs there an alternative to capitalism? In this landmark text Chomsky and Waterstone chart a critical map for a more just and sustainable society. '...
View full detailsIn 1971, President Nixon imposed national price controls and took the United States off the gold standard, an extreme measure intended to end an on...
View full detailsAn unsparing analysis of class power and computerisation, Cyber-Proletariat shows us the dark-side of the information revolution. From Coltan mines...
View full detailsLife expectancy in the United States has recently fallen for three years in a row--a reversal not seen since 1918 or in any other wealthy nation in...
View full detailsBefore there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate c...
View full detailsBitcoin may appear to be a revolutionary form of digital cash without precedent or prehistory. In fact, it is only the best-known recent experiment...
View full detailsWhen Economyths was first published in 2010, David Orrell showed how mainstream economics is based on key myths such as fair competition, rational ...
View full detailsNusantaria - often referred to as 'Maritime Southeast Asia' - is the world's largest archipelago and has, for centuries, been a vital cultural and ...
View full detailsThousands of Palestinians, including children, are building and working on illegal Israeli settlements. Their bitter toil entails a daily rejection...
View full detailsDuring the twentieth century, America managed to make its economic and social systems both more and more fair and more and more prosperous. A huge,...
View full detailsA sense of urgency pervades global environmentalism, and the degrowth movement is bursting into the mainstream. As climate catastrophe looms closer...
View full detailsTo predict our future, we must look to the extremes. So argues the economist Richard Davies, who takes readers to the margins of the modern economy...
View full details'Shanzhai' from Cantonese slang, refers to the production of fake goods in China, which enjoy an anti-authoritarian-like dissemination across the g...
View full detailsWhat was history's biggest empire? Or the tallest building of the ancient world? What was the average life expectancy in medieval Byzantium? The av...
View full details2008 saw one of the worst financial crises in generations, the global implications of which are still being felt today. Ten years later Ben Bernank...
View full detailsWhen discussing inequality and poverty in Hong Kong, scholars and politicians often focus on the failures of government policy and push for an incr...
View full detailsIn Michael Lewis's game-changing bestseller, a small group of Wall Street iconoclasts realize that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the be...
View full detailsIn Michael Lewis's game-changing bestseller, a small group of Wall Street iconoclasts realize that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the be...
View full detailsNew York is a city of highs and lows, where wealthy elites share the streets with desperate immigrants and destitute locals. Bridging this economic...
View full detailsFinding opportunities for innovation on the path between farmer and table. Even if we think we know a lot about good and healthy food--even if we b...
View full detailsFooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, proba...
View full detailsAs digital transformations continue to accelerate in the world, discourses of big data have come to dominate in a number of fields, from politics a...
View full detailsIt has never been more important for business leaders to look to the future. Yet, when we are living through some of the most uncertain times we ha...
View full detailsIn this revolutionary book, prize-winning economists Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo show how economics, when done right, can help us solve th...
View full detailsGreat Economic Thinkers presents an accessible introduction to the lives and works of the most influential economists of modern times: Adam Smith, ...
View full detailsThroughout history, successful societies have created institutions which channel both competition and co-operation to achieve complex goals of gene...
View full detailsGrowth has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim of our individual and collective striving. It governs the lives of microorganisms and galaxies...
View full detailsFirst published in 1971, How to Read Donald Duck shocked readers by revealing how capitalist ideology operates in our most beloved cartoons. Having...
View full detailsMoney is our global language. Yet so few of us can speak it. The language of the economic elite can be complex, jargon-filled and completely baffli...
View full detailsIs there no escape from an economy that devours nature in the name of endless growth? John Thackara's answer is a rousing 'yes, there is!' Drawing ...
View full detailsArtificial Intelligence (AI) has seen major advances in recent years. While machines were always central to the Marxist analysis of capitalism, AI ...
View full detailsThe world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we must face up to its primary cause. Capitalism dema...
View full detailsOver the past fifty years, the way we value what is 'good' and 'right' has changed dramatically. Behaviour that to our grandparents' generation mig...
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