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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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Main Author: Cassidy, John, 1963- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2025]
Edition:First edition.
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Capitalism > History.
Economic history.
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • 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?

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