Capitalism and its critics a history : from the Industrial Revolution to AI
"A history of critical responses to capitalism by a longtime New Yorker staff writer"--
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| 245 | 1 | |a Capitalism and its critics : |b a history : from the Industrial Revolution to AI / |c John Cassidy. | |
| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Farrar, Straus and Giroux, |c [2025] | |
| 264 | 4 | |c Ã2025 | |
| 300 | |a ix, 609 pages : |b illustration ; |c 25 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 519-569) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction -- 1 : "The roguery practiced in this department is beyond Imagination" : William Bolts and the East India Company -- 2 : "The mean rapacity, the monopolizing spirit of merchants and manufacturers" : Adam Smith on Colonial Capitalism and Slavery -- 3 : "On the brink of the last struggle" : The Logic of the Luddites -- 4 : "It is time . . . to seek for a radical, a permanent cure of the evils that afflict society" : William Thompson's Utilitarian Socialism -- 5 : "In speaking of the degraded position of my sex" : Anna Wheeler and the Forgotten Half of Humanity -- 6 : "Abandon your isolation : unite with each other!" : Flora Tristan and the Universal Worker's Union -- 7 : "One of the shabbiest Gospels ever preached on Earth" : Thomas Carlyle on Mammon and the Cash Nexus -- 8 : "The war of the poor against the rich will be the bloodiest ever waged" : Friedrich Engels and The Communist Manifesto -- 9 : "Our friend, Moneybags" : Karl Marx's Capitalist Laws of Motion -- 10 : "We must make land common property" : Henry George's Moral Crusade -- 11 : "The ideal pecuniary man is like the ideal delinquent" : Thorstein Veblen and the Captains of Industry -- 12 : "A particularly crude form of capitalism" : John Hobson's Theory of Imperialism -- 13 : "Capital knows no other solution to the problem of violence" : Rosa Luxemburg on Capitalism, Colonialism, and War -- 14 : "The rhythm of long cycles" : Nikolai Kondratiev and the Capitalist Development -- | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 15 : "The more troublous the times, the word does a laissez-faire system work" : John Maynard Keynes's Blueprint for Managed Capitalism -- 16 : "The time was ripe for the fascist solution" : Karl Polanyi's Warnings About Capitalism and Democracy -- 17 : "The bankruptcy of reform" : Two Skeptics of Keynesianism : Paul Sweezy and Michal Kalecki -- 18 : "Economics once more became political economy" : Joan Robinson and the "Bastard Keynesians" -- 19 : "Nature . . . faithful and submissive to those who respect her" : J. C. Kumarappa and the Economics of Permanence -- 20 : "Vast sugar factories by a camarilla of absentee capitalist magnates and worked by a mass of alien proletarians" : Eric Williams on Slavery and Captialism -- 21 : "The periphery of the economic system" : The Rise and Fall of Dependency Theory in Latin America -- 22 : "Shock treatment" : Milton Friedman and the Rise of Neoliberalism -- 23 : "Any use of the natural resources for the satisfaction of non-vital needs means a smaller quantity of life in the future" : Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen and the Limits to Growth -- 24 : "A true masterpiece at the expense of women" : Silvia Federici and Wages for Housework -- 25 : "It is a form of regressive modernisation" : Theorists of Thatcherism : Stuard Hall vs. Friedrich Hayek -- 26 : "Social disintegration is not a spectator sport" : Parsing Globalization : Samir Amiin, Dani Rodrik, and Joseph Stiglitz -- 27 : "A historically unprecedented situation" : Thomas Piketty and Rising Inequality -- 28 : "A confluence that could propel a new paradigm" : The End of Capitalism, or the Beginning? | |
| 520 | |a "A history of critical responses to capitalism by a longtime New Yorker staff writer"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 520 | 8 | |a A sweeping, dramatic history of capitalism as seen through the eyes of its fiercest critics. At a time when artificial intelligence, climate change, inequality, trade wars, and a right-wing populist backlash to globalization are raising fundamental questions about the economic system, Capitalism and Its Critics provides a kaleidoscopic history of global capitalism, from the East India Company and Industrial Revolution to the digital revolution. But here John Cassidy, a staff writer at The New Yorker and a Pulitzer Prize finalist, adopts a bold new approach: he tells the story through the eyes of the system's critics. From the English Luddites who rebelled against early factory automation to communists in Germany and Russia in the early twentieth century, to the Latin American dependistas, the international Wages for Housework campaign of the 1970s, and the modern degrowth movement, the absorbing narrative traverses the globe. It visits with familiar names--Smith, Marx, Luxemburg, Keynes, Polanyi--but also focuses on many less familiar figures, including Flora Tristan, the French proponent of a universal labor union; Thomas Carlyle, the conservative prophet of the moral depredations of the market; John Hobson, the original theorist of imperialism; J. C. Kumarappa, the Indian exponent of Gandhian economics; Eric Williams, the Trinidadian author of a famous thesis on slavery and capitalism; Joan Robinson, the Cambridge economist and critic of Keynes; and Samir Amin, the leftist French-Egyptian economist and analyst of globalization. Blending rich biography, panoramic history, and lively exploration of economic theories, Capitalism and Its Critics is true big history that illuminates the deep roots of many of the most urgent issues of our time. -- Provided by publisher. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Capitalism |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Economic history. | |
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