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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The support economy The support economy Shoshana Zuboff,James Maxmin The authors chart the chasm betwen culture and corporations, positing that workers have changed more rapidly than the companies they rely upon for survival. OL12697299W
Capitalist Realism Capitalist Realism Mark Fisher It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system - a situation that th… OL15683250W
After Globalization After Globalization Eric M. Cazdyn "In lively and unflinching prose, Eric Cazdyn and Imre Szeman argue that contemporary thought about the world is disabled by a fatal flaw: the inability to think "an after" to globalization. After es… OL16011331W
The soul of capitalism The soul of capitalism William Greider Lists recent events that identify serious flaws in American capitalism, noting the price of affluence on families and the environment, calling for a realignment of power, and sharing examples of bene… OL16063908W
The trouble with markets The trouble with markets R. P. Bootle Examines the current financial crisis in an historical context, addressing the deficiencies of a free market and questioning the premise that markets can be left unregulated. OL16140252W
The Rise and Demise of the Capitalist World System. The Rise and Demise of the Capitalist World System. Hartmut Elsenhans In this volume Hartmut Elsenhans, professor emeritus for international relations at the Institute of Political Sciences at the University of Leipzig, presents those arguments that are the sum and syn… OL16258202W
Inventing the Future Inventing the Future Nick Srnicek,Alex Williams “A fascinating book about an alternative to austerity.” – Owen Jones A major new manifesto for a high-tech future free from work. Neoliberalism isn’t working. Austerity is forcing millions into p… OL17333114W
The Culture of the New Capitalism 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 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
Capitalism in the web of life Capitalism in the web of life Jason W. Moore "Both green and red analyses of capitalism's deepening contradictions have acknowledged the close relation of economic and environmental crises. But environmentalists have not yet fully integrated so… OL20003928W
The new prophets of capital The new prophets of capital Nicole Marie Aschoff Mythmaking is as central to sustaining our present economy as profit-making. In the 1980s, Thatcher and Reagan's stories about welfare queens, greedy workers and the beauty of the free market cleared… OL20006418W
The mushroom at the end of the world The mushroom at the end of the world Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing "A tale of diversity within our damaged landscapes, The Mushroom at the End of the World follows one of the strangest commodity chains of our times to explore the unexpected corners of capitalism. He… OL20015789W
Democracy at work Democracy at work Richard D. Wolff Wolff shows why and how to make democratic workplaces real. He speaks to those who realize that capitalism economics and politics as usual have become intolerable and who seek a concrete action progr… OL20547712W
One Market Under God 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
APRES LE CAPITALISME - ESSAI D'ECOLOGIE POLITIQUE APRES LE CAPITALISME - ESSAI D'ECOLOGIE POLITIQUE Pierre Madelin 149 pages ; 20 cm OL28600035W
Empire Empire Antonio Negri,Michael Hardt ---------- ---------- OL3929700W
Natural capitalism 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
Capitalism's Achilles Heel Capitalism's Achilles Heel Raymond W. Baker For over forty years in more than sixty countries, Raymond Baker has witnessed the free-market system operating illicitly and corruptly, with devastating consequences. In Capitalism's Achilles Heel, … OL8231515W