Author :
Publisher :
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 49,57 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 9781999747169
A revolutionary, yet utterly practical blueprint for a wiser and better kind of capitalism.
Author : Alain de Botton
Publisher : School of Life
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 27,89 MB
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 9780995753570
A revolutionary, yet utterly practical blueprint for a wiser and better kind of capitalism.
Author : Victor Nee
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 44,33 MB
Release : 2012-06-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674065395
Over 630 million Chinese escaped poverty since the 1980s, the largest decrease in poverty in history. Studying 700 manufacturing firms in the Yangzi region, the authors argue that the engine of China’s economic miracle—private enterprise—did not originate at the top but bubbled up from below, overcoming initial obstacles set up by the government.
Author : Fred L. Block
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 15,25 MB
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520959078
Virtually everyone—left, right, and center—believes that capitalist economies are autonomous, coherent, and regulated by their own internal laws. This view is an illusion. The reality is that economies organized around the pursuit of private profit are contradictory, incoherent, and heavily shaped by politics and governmental action. But the illusion remains hugely consequential because it has been embraced by political and economic elites who are convinced that they are powerless to change this system. The result is cycles of raised hopes followed by disappointment as elected officials discover they have no legitimate policy tools that can deliver what the public wants. In Capitalism, leading economic sociologist Fred L. Block argues that restoring the vitality of the United States and the world economy can be accomplished only with major reforms on the scale of the New Deal and the post–World War II building of new global institutions.
Author : Whalen, Charles J.
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 18,21 MB
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1803926295
In this book of carefully selected essays, Charles Whalen presents constructive analyses of vital economic problems confronting the United States since the 1970s, giving special attention to challenges facing working families. The analyses are grounded in Whalen’s career of more than three decades, during which he has gleaned insight from institutional and post-Keynesian economics and contributed to national economic policy-making, equitable regional development, and worker engagement in business decisions. The result is a compelling case for reforming capitalism by addressing workers’ interests as an integral part of the common good, and for reconstructing economics in the direction of post-Keynesian institutionalism.
Author : Branko Milanovic
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,33 MB
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674260309
For the first time in history, the globe is dominated by one economic system. Capitalism prevails because it delivers prosperity and meets desires for autonomy. But it also is unstable and morally defective. Surveying the varieties and futures of capitalism, Branko Milanovic offers creative solutions to improve a system that isn’t going anywhere.
Author : Samuel Bowles
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 22,5 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Education
ISBN : 1608461319
"This seminal work . . . establishes a persuasive new paradigm."--Contemporary Sociology No book since Schooling in Capitalist America has taken on the systemic forces hard at work undermining our education system. This classic reprint is an invaluable resource for radical educators. Samuel Bowles is research professor and director of the behavioral sciences program at the Santa Fe Institute, and professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts. Herbert Gintis is an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute and emeritus professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts.
Author : Sebastian Dullien
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,45 MB
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780745331102
The recent crisis, created by finance capitalism, has brought us to the economic abyss. The excessive freedom of international markets has rapidly transformed into international panic, with states struggling to rescue and bail out a globalized financial sector. Reform is promised by our leaders, but in governments dominated by financial interests there is little hope of meaningful change. Decent Capitalism argues for a response that addresses capitalism’s systemic tendency towards crisis, a tendency which is completely absent from the mainstream debate. The authors develop a concept of a moderated capitalism that keeps its core strengths intact while reducing its inherent destructive political force in our societies. This book argues that reforming the capitalist system will have to be far more radical than the current political discourse suggests. Decent Capitalism is a concept and a slogan that will inspire political activists, trade unionists and policy makers to get behind a package of reforms that finally allows the majority to master capitalism.
Author : Herbert Kitschelt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 40,77 MB
Release : 1999-01-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521634960
In the early 1980s, many observers, argued that powerful organized economic interests and social democratic parties created successful mixed economies promoting economic growth, full employment, and a modicum of social equality. The present book assembles scholars with formidable expertise in the study of advanced capitalist politics and political economy to reexamine this account from the vantage point of the second half of the 1990s. The authors find that the conventional wisdom no longer adequately reflects the political and economic realities. Advanced democracies have responded in path-dependent fashion to such novel challenges as technological change, intensifying international competition, new social conflict, and the erosion of established patterns of political mobilization. The book rejects, however, the currently widespread expectation that 'internationalization' makes all democracies converge on similar political and economic institutions and power relations. Diversity among capitalist democracies persists, though in a different fashion than in the 'Golden Age' of rapid economic growth after World War II.
Author : Cynthia C. Kaufman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 39,84 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0739172808
Getting Past Capitalism begins with a critique of the impacts of capitalism on human society and the environment. It looks in new ways at what capitalism is and at how it is reproduced. That investigation opens the door to fresh ways of looking at how to challenge it. Cynthia Kaufman looks at some fundamental questions about how capitalism comes to look like a system that is unbeatable, and how people come to have desires that work to reinforce capitalism. Kaufman uses this analysis to develop ideas about how to challenge capitalism. She argues that rather than looking for the fulcrum point in a system that will make it able to be overthrown, we should try to understand what kinds of practices open more spaces for stopping the reproduction of capitalist processes, and what kinds of structures need to be developed to make capitalism a less important part of our world. Getting Past Capitalism includes a critique of capitalism and presentation of alternatives to capitalism, many of which already exist. It explores strategies for developing and strengthening those alternatives.
