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461) Chalcot Crescent
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
By 2013, capitalism has collapsed in Europe, and England has turned to protectionist policies, communal farms, and an intrusive National Unity Government that feeds its citizens National Meat Loaf and monitors people by street-corner CiviCams. In this bleak near-future, Frances Prideaux, once a successful writer of feminist novels and a proud product of the era of sexual liberation, is rehashing the sins of her past. As bailiffs try to repossess her...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Vice is the true father of Western capitalism, according to Ian Klaus in this fascinating, wildly entertaining, and often startling history of modern finance. Rather than the noble pursuit of gentlemen, international financial affairs in the nineteenth century were conducted in large part, the author suggests, by connivers, thieves, swindlers and frauds who believed that no risk was too great and no scheme too outrageous if the monetary reward was...
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"In this take-no-prisoners analysis, [the author] frames the moral failures of the modern world in terms of the epoch-making events of the first decade of this century. What he finds is the old one-two punch of history: the jab of tragedy, the righthook of farce. In the attacks of 9/11 and the global credit crunch, liberalism died twice: as a political doctrine and as an economic theory"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Tracing this largely unknown history from the late 1960s to the present, Baradaran demonstrates that far from yielding fewer laws and regulations, neoliberalism has in fact always meant more—and more complex—laws. Those laws have uniformly benefited the wealthy. From the work of a young Alan Greenspan in creating "Black Capitalism," to Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell’s efforts to unshackle big money donors, to the establishment of the "Law...
Author
Publisher
Audioworks
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Despite mounting scientific evidence, climate change denial is surging in many wealthy countries, and fossil-fuel extraction has gathered pace. Naomi Klein exposes the work of ideologues who know the difficulties this poses to the free market, and challenges the failing strategies of environmental groups.
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In recent years, techno-scientific progress has started to utterly transform our world--changing it almost beyond recognition. In this extraordinary new book, renowned philosopher Slavoj Žižek turns to look at the brave new world of Big Tech, revealing how, with each new wave of innovation, we find ourselves moving closer and closer to a bizarrely literal realization of Marx's prediction that "all that is solid melts into air." With the automation...
474) The support economy: why corporations are failing individuals and the next episode of capitalism
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Publisher
Smithsonian Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"What does it mean to be an American? What are American ideas and values? American Enterprise, the companion book to a major exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, aims to answer these questions about the American experience through an exploration of its economic and commercial history. It argues that by looking at the intersection of capitalism and democracy, we can see where we as a nation have come from and where we...
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