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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
23 things they don't tell you about capitalism 23 things they don't tell you about capitalism Ha-Joon Chang Challenges popular misconceptions while making startling revelations about free-market practices, explaining the author's views on global capitalism dynamics while making recommendations for reshapin… OL16178746W
Le capital au XXIe siècle Le capital au XXIe siècle Thomas Piketty What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic… OL16814568W
The Zero Marginal Cost Society The Zero Marginal Cost Society Jeremy Rifkin The capitalist era is passing -- not quickly, but inevitably. Rising in its wake is a new global collaborative Commons that will fundamentally transform our way of life. Ironically, capitalism's demi… OL17038336W
What then must we do? What then must we do? Gar Alperovitz "Never before have so many Americans been more frustrated with our economic system, more fearful that it is failing, or more open to fresh ideas about a new one. The seeds of a new economy--and, if w… OL19966466W
Disposable women and other myths of global capitalism 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