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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy	Joseph Alois Schumpeter	Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy is a book on economics, sociology, and history by Joseph Schumpeter, arguably one of—if not his most—famous, controversial, and important works. It’s also one…	OL1295326W
After Capitalism	Seymour Melman	"After Capitalism is the apex of the life's work of one of the most respected scholars of the American Workplace. For nearly half a century, Seymour Melman has been an influential commentary on capit…	OL1299264W
Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus	Max Weber	In The Protestant Ethic, Max Weber opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and relates the rise of the capitalist economy to the Calvinist belief in the moral value of hard work and th…	OL1362905W
The common good	Noam Chomsky	Someone who knows and gives a damn. Do read this please.	OL15329510W
Global capitalism in crisis	Murray E. G. Smith	xi, 179 p. : 23 cm	OL15454517W
The Culture of the New Capitalism	Richard Sennett	The distinguished sociologist Richard Sennett surveys major differences between earlier forms of industrial capitalism and the more global, more febrile, ever more mutable version of capitalism that …	OL1870888W
The Future of U.S. Capitalism	Pryor, Frederic L.	"This multidisciplinary book looks at the long-term forces that are shaping the most important economic institutions in the United States in the coming decades. These underlying causes of change incl…	OL1959617W
New rich, new poor, new Russia	Bertram Silverman,Murray Yanowitch	Now expanded to cover Russia's 1998 financial collapse, this text examines the unequal distribution of the costs and benefits of Russia's leap into capitalism, and its social consequences, presenting…	OL20905351W
Réflexions éthiques contemporaines, ou, De l'isolement de l'individu dans la multitude des choses	Alain Jacques	Un manuel destiné à l'enseignement de la philosophie au collégial. Onze sujets particulièrement importants dans le monde contemporain sont retenus : individualisme et démocratie, société de consommat…	OL24199025W
Quand le capitalisme perd la tête	Joseph E. Stiglitz	Prix Nobel d'économie 2001, l'auteur analyse les travers des politiques économiques ultralibérales occidentales des années 90 à aujourd'hui. Montre notamment que la réduction des déficits ne relance …	OL24758029W
Le nouveau capitalisme	Dominique Plihon	Montre les changements socio-économiques et les évolutions du capitalisme sous l'effet de la globalisation financière et des NTIC, créant ainsi un nouveau système qui consacre le rôle dominant de la …	OL24839044W
One Market Under God	Thomas Frank	Examines the attempts made in the 1990s to infuse free-market ideology with claims of democracy, resulting in something called market populism. Driven by the economy's irrational exuberance, market…	OL2668554W
Post-capitalist society	Peter F. Drucker	Business guru Peter Drucker provides an incisive analysis of the major world transformation taking place, from the Age of Capitalism to the Knowledge Society, and examines the radical effects it will…	OL2721823W
Against the dead hand	Brink Lindsey	A refreshing, insightful look into the political and economic dynamics driving globalization today Globalization: it's earlier than you think. That's the provocative message of Against the Dead Hand…	OL275826W
Les oligarques	Christine Ockrent	Sous la présidence de Eltsine, dans les années 1990, les oligarques ont entrepris de transformer la Russie en laboratoire capitaliste en contrôlant les matières premières, les banques puis les paradi…	OL28588271W
Theology and the Political	Slavoj Žižek,John Milbank,Creston Davis	The essays in Theology and the Political—written by some of the world’s foremost theologians, philosophers, and literary critics—analyze the ethics and consequences of human action. They explore th…	OL3088216W
Natural capitalism	Paul Hawken	There are no more reespected voices in the environmental movement than these authors, true counselors on the direction of twenty-first-century business. With hundreds of thousands of books sold world…	OL3940931W
The Shock Doctrine	Naomi Klein	The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism is a 2007 book by the Canadian author and social activist Naomi Klein. In the book, Klein argues that neoliberal free market policies (as advoc…	OL6017238W
Disposable women and other myths of global capitalism	Melissa W. Wright	Everyday, around the world, women who work in the third world factories of global firms face the idea that they are disposable. Melissa W. Wright explains how this notion proliferates, both within an…	OL8105241W