“The Myth of Capitalism is the story of industrial concentration, and clearly points the way back to open markets that work for everyone, while bridging the gap between the left and the right.”
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Prosperity; Better Business Makes the Greater Good offers a radical reformulation of our notions of business, its roles and responsibilities, and the way it operates. It sets out a renewed vision of how the corporation can create both economic and social well-being, and how regulatory and taxation can make this a reality.
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Foundations of Real-World Economics offers students a valuable introductory text with insights into the workings of real markets, not just imaginary ones formulated by blackboard economists.
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Are Chief Executives Overpaid? argues that the rise in CEO payment has created a vicious circle that destabilizes our economy and undermines social cohesion. It debunks the myths behind top pay and examines a range of pragmatic solutions.
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Growing a New Economy: Beyond Crisis Capitalism and Environmental Destruction (2018) takes a critical look at the history of capitalism, and it also outlines an alternative economy, a blueprint for what the next economy should look like.
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“The idea that some cultures might engage in capitalism differently than other cultures sounds a bit presumptive to modern ears, but it’s also very capitalistic. Capitalism, after all, is a system that requires a level of comfort with inequalities in material outcomes.”
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In Can American Capitalism Survive? Why Greed Is Not Good, Opportunity Is Not Equal, and Fairness Won’t Make Us Poor (2018) Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steven Pearlstein challenges the theories being taught in business schools and exercised in boardrooms around the USA.
Robert Kuttner’s Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism? argues that neither trade nor immigration nor technological change is responsible for the harm to workers’ prospects. According to Kuttner raw capitalism strikes at the very foundation of a healthy democracy.
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Adam Smith; What He Thought and Why It Matters gives us not just Smith’s economics, but his vastly wider intellectual project. It dispels the myths and debunks the caricatures that have grown up around Adam Smith.
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Neoliberal Bio-Economies? examines what kinds of markets and natures are being imagined and constructed in the pursuit of the bio-economy, and problematizes the idea that this is being driven by neoliberalism and the neoliberalization of nature(s).
Read More“The Yiwu International Trade City in China is the world’s largest wholesale market for consumer goods, stretching some five miles and featuring roughly 75,000 vendors. The Chinese-American filmmaker Jessica Kingdon’s observational documentary Commodity City employs static shots of everyday scenes from the market – mostly without dialogue – to convey the seemingly endless stretches of vendor booths that specialise in everything from cat pillows to Santa figurines. Through these vignettes, Kingdon captures the incongruous interplay of boredom and commerce, vastness and claustrophobia that characterises this otherworldly space, offering a hypnotic anthropologic exploration of consumer culture and capitalism.”
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Sustainable Consumption: Key Issues introduces the concept, examines six contrasting explanations and outlines problems, solutions and visions of its future.
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