Capitalism

Explores capitalism's role in creating the current state of climate emergency Over the last 11,700 years, during which human civilization developed, the earth has existed within what geologists refer to as the Holocene Epoch. Now science is telling us...

A San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller * An NPR Best Book of the YearThe New York Times's Global Economics Correspondent masterfully reveals how billionaires' systematic plunder of the world-brazenly accelerated during the pandemic-has transformed...

"Dick Morris and I conferred regularly throughout the 2016 and 2020 campaigns. He helped me hone my message and aim it at the right audience. His father was my attorney, and he is my counselor. And I am grateful to them both." - President...

"Astute."-New York Times Ayn Rand's complicated notoriety as popular writer, leader of a political and philosophical cult, reviled intellectual, and ostentatious public figure endured beyond her death in 1982. In the twenty-first century, she has been...

In this updated and expanded edition of Invisible Leviathan, Murray E.G. Smith critically explores and makes significant contributions to the debate surrounding Karl Marx's 'capitalist law of value' and its corollary, the law of the falling rate of...

Geopolitical Economy radically reinterprets the historical evolution of the world order, as a multi-polar world emerges from the dust of the financial and economic crisis. Radhika Desai offers a radical critique of the theories of US hegemony,...

'Lucid, smartly written ... A welcome intervention into the debate surrounding the future of liberalism' Financial Times 'It takes scholarly courage and knowledge to upend Adam Smith, but this is what Krzysztof Pelc has done . . . Profound and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523002320Author Thom HartmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Berrett-Koehler PublishersPublisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers

American democratic capitalism is in danger. How can we save it?For its first two hundred years, the American economy exhibited truly impressive performance. The combination of democratically elected governments and a capitalist system worked, with...

The economist and historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has been best known recently for her Bourgeois Era trilogy, a vigorous defense, unrivaled in scope, of commercially tested betterment. Its massive volumes, The Bourgeois Virtues, Bourgeois Dignity, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912685905Author Neil VallellyFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Goldsmiths, Unversity of LondonPublisher Goldsmiths, Unversity of London

An insightful and timely analysis of how global economic restructuring will impact workers' struggles in the US. On New Terrain challenges conventional wisdom about a disappearing working class and the inevitability of a two-party political structure as...

From plantation rebellion and Indigenous land theft to prison labor's super-exploitation, Walcott examines the relationship between policing and property. That a man can lose his life for passing a fake $20 bill, when we know our economies are flush...

An urgent and deeply resonant case for the power of workplace democracy to restore balance between economy and society. What happens to a society-and a planet-when capitalism outgrows democracy? The tensions between democracy and capitalism are...

In The Precipice, Noam Chomsky sheds light into the phenomenon of Trumpism, exposes the catastrophic nature and impact of Trump's policies on people, the environment, and the planet as a whole, and captures the dynamics of the brutal class warfare...

The economist and historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has been best known recently for her Bourgeois Era trilogy, a vigorous defense, unrivaled in scope, of commercially tested betterment. Its massive volumes, The Bourgeois Virtues, Bourgeois Dignity,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685900861Author David MatthewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Todd McGowan forges a new theory of capitalism as a system based on the production of more than what we need: pure excess. He argues that the promise of more-more wealth, more enjoyment, more opportunity, without requiring any sacrifice-is the essence of...

Selfishness is essential to capitalism—or so both advocates and opponents claim. In Infinite Greed, Adrian Johnston argues that this consensus is mistaken. Through a novel synthesis of Marxism and psychoanalysis, he reveals how the relentless pursuit of...

Why are we selling off the impressive public enterprises we often battled as a nation to create?In the early 1900s, thousands of Canadians battled wealthy interests, winning control of Niagara Falls and creating a public power company. Another popular...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629639178Author Raymond CraibFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953273055Author Michael SommerFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Cosmonaut PressPublisher Cosmonaut PressWeight(grams) 113g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250135599Author Jonathan M KatzFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...

In this book, Michael Lebowitz deepens the arguments he made in his award-winning, Beyond Capital. Karl Marx, in Capital, focused on capital and the capitalist class that is its embodiment. It is the endless accumulation of capital, its causes and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637632369Author Eric WadeFormat HardbackImprint Forefront BooksPublisher Forefront BooksWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm * 30mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732552333Author Rhyd WildermuthFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Gods&radicalsPublisher Gods&radicalsWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

An urgent and galvanizing argument for an Economic Bill of Rights-and its potential to confer true freedom on all Americans. Since the Founding, Americans have debated the true meaning of freedom. For some, freedom meant the provision of life's...

This is the history of the East India Company and its enduring legacy as a corporation, dealing in exploitation and violence. The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational. Its trading empire encircled the globe, importing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629637891Author Simon SpringerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

In an age of extreme political polarization and waning of reasoned debate across political divides, Capitalism for Realists carefully explores the inner workings of capitalism in a consciously non-partisan and balanced way. Does the modern capitalist...

Capitalism represents the greatest engine of material well-being that the world has ever seen. But scepticism about its viability has grown across the political spectrum, on the back of rising inequalities, climate change and digital disruptions. This...

Inequality of income and wealth has skyrocketed since the 1970s. As the super-rich have grasped the vast majority of the gains from economic growth, labor's share of income has declined. The middle class has stagnated, and those at the bottom have become...

This first volume of The Class Structure of Capitalist Societies offers a bold and wide-ranging assessment of the shape and effects of class systems across a diverse range of capitalist nations. Plumbing a trove of data and deploying cutting-edge...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644390542Author Isaak Illich RubinFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Indoeuropeanpublishing.comPublisher Indoeuropeanpublishing.comWeight(grams)...

Growth and Welfare in Advanced Capitalist Economies takes stock of the major economic challenges that advanced industrial democracies have faced since the early 1990s and the responses by governments to them. It has three goals: firstly, to further our...

Is there a better way than capitalism? A much-cited recent poll found that more young Americans have a positive view of socialism than of capitalism. There's a sense of newly opened possibilities: Might this be the moment for a mass movement of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913380830Author Ben BurbridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Goldsmith's PressPublisher Goldsmiths, Unversity of London

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638810889Author DD SimpsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Newman Springs Publishing, Inc.Publisher Newman Springs Publishing, Inc.Weight(grams) 463g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781068933653Author Michael B LawrenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Bhda PublishingPublisher Bhda PublishingWeight(grams) 163g

Speaking Out of Place helps us find value and inspiration in others who have made change in the world where such things were not supposed to be possible.From protests in sports arenas to sonic transgressions of racist boundaries, to protest camps and...