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The Invisible Handcuffs of Capitalism

Author : Michael Perelman
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583672621
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book The Invisible Handcuffs of Capitalism written by Michael Perelman and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mainstream, or more formally, neoclassical, economics claims to be a science. But as Michael Perelman makes clear in his latest book, nothing could be further from the truth. While a science must be rooted in material reality, mainstream economics ignores or distorts the most fundamental aspect of this reality: that the vast majority of people must, out of necessity, labor on behalf of others, transformed into nothing but a means to the end of maximum profits for their employers. The nature of the work we do and the conditions under which we do it profoundly shape our lives. And yet, both of these factors are peripheral to mainstream economics. By sweeping labor under the rug, mainstream economists hide the nature of capitalism, making it appear to be a system based upon equal exchange rather than exploitation inside every workplace. Perelman describes this illusion as the "invisible handcuffs" of capitalism and traces its roots back to Adam Smith and his contemporaries and their disdain for working people. He argues that far from being a basically fair system of exchanges regulated by the "invisible hand" of the market, capitalism handcuffs working men and women (and children too) through the very labor process itself. Neoclassical economics attempts to rationalize these handcuffs and tells workers that they are responsible for their own conditions. What we need to do instead, Perelman suggests, is eliminate the handcuffs through collective actions and build a society that we direct ourselves.

Why We Bite the Invisible Hand

Author : Peter Foster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780992127619
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (276 download)

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Download or read book Why We Bite the Invisible Hand written by Peter Foster and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Seeing Through the System

Author : Gus Bagakis
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1475991355
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book Seeing Through the System written by Gus Bagakis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people think of class as a ranking system the more you have, the higher your class status. In contrast to this view, in this new study author Gus Bagakis demonstrates that class is a tool that explains how the capitalist system works and why the class struggle is invisible. Capitalism was and is a developing system in which the working class is turned into a commodity, selling its labor power to the capitalist class that owns the factories, businesses, and corporations. While capitalism claims to promote efficiency, wealth, and freedom, it is also a system where the rich are getting richer, the earth and climate are being destroyed, and the poor get more and more desperate with each passing day. All of this is happening because we live in a system that stunts personality and corrupts human relations by pitting people against one another for economic gain. Through class analysis, Bagakis explains that we must take off the filters that we've been indoctrinated with, so that we can see how personal, social, and international problems develop. Primary among these false filters is the idea that we are all middle class and so there are no class conflicts in our society. Seeing through the System seeks to help students, workers, social activists, and those interested in understanding the reasons behind many of the problems in the world today. You can come to understand how our society was put together, how it works, and how it can be transformed.

Saving Capitalism

Author : Robert B. Reich
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0345806220
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book Saving Capitalism written by Robert B. Reich and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a Netflix Original Documentary America was once celebrated for and defined by its large and prosperous middle class. Now, this middle class is shrinking, a new oligarchy is rising, and the country faces its greatest wealth disparity in eighty years. Why is the economic system that made America strong suddenly failing us, and how can it be fixed? Leading political economist and bestselling author Robert B. Reich presents a paradigm-shifting, clear-eyed examination of a political and economic status quo that no longer serves the people, exposing one of the most pernicious obstructions to progress today: the enduring myth of the “free market” when, behind the curtain, it is the powerful alliances between Washington and Wall Street that control the invisible hand. Laying to rest the specious dichotomy between a free market and “big government,” Reich shows that the truly critical choice ahead is between a market organized for broad-based prosperity and one designed to deliver ever more gains to the top. Visionary and acute, Saving Capitalism illuminates the path toward restoring America’s fundamental promise of opportunity and advancement.

A People's Guide to Capitalism

Author : Hadas Thier
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1642592188
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book A People's Guide to Capitalism written by Hadas Thier and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2018-06-02 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively, accessible, and timely guide to Marxist economics for those who want to understand and dismantle the world of the 1%. Economists regularly promote Capitalism as the greatest system ever to grace the planet. With the same breath, they implore us to leave the job of understanding the magical powers of the market to the “experts.” Despite the efforts of these mainstream commentators to convince us otherwise, many of us have begun to question why this system has produced such vast inequality and wanton disregard for its own environmental destruction. This book offers answers to exactly these questions on their own terms: in the form of a radical economic theory. “Thier’s urgently needed book strips away jargon to make Marx’s essential work accessible to today’s diverse mass movements.” —Sarah Leonard, contributing editor to The Nation “A great book for proletarian chain-breaking.” —Rob Larson, author of Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley “Thier unpacks the mystery of capitalist inequality with lucid and accessible prose . . . . We will need books like A People’s Guide to help us make sense of the root causes of the financial crises that shape so many of our struggles today.” —Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, author of Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership “Ranging from exploitation at work to the operations of modern finance, this book takes the reader through a fine-tuned introduction to Marx’s analysis of the modern economy . . . . Thier combines theoretical explanation with contemporary examples to illuminate the inner workings of capitalism . . . . Reminds us of the urgent need for alternatives to a crisis-ridden system.” —David McNally, author of Blood and Money

The Dilemmas of Laissez-faire Population Policy in Capitalist Societies

Author : Marc Linder
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 : 9780313303098
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Dilemmas of Laissez-faire Population Policy in Capitalist Societies written by Marc Linder and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1997 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The economic and sociopsychological foundations of the decentralized decisions involved in the production of new labor power, human reproduction, have never been adequately understood. The consequences for the labor markets of the laissez-faire policies of capitalist societies toward human reproduction are discussed from historical, economic, social, political, demographic, and legal perspectives. The extent to which the production of children causes or exacerbates poverty for the producers of the children is discussed, along with the question of how capitalism can rely on a labor force produced by reproductive whim.

Capitalism: Should You Buy it?

Author : Charles Derber
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317262794
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Capitalism: Should You Buy it? written by Charles Derber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before there was economics, there was political economy, an interdisciplinary adventure boldly and critically seeking to understand capitalism. Over time, the social sciences evolved into specific disciplines - economics, sociology, political science - that less often questioned capitalist perspectives and the state. Contrasting three traditions - neoclassicism, Keynesianism, and neo-Marxism - Capitalism: Should You Buy It? traces the historical development of each and evaluates whether they view capitalism as the root cause of or the solution to the pressing problems now facing humanity. This accessible and hopeful book is a call to everyone - citizen, student, public intellectual - to revive the critical edge towards capitalism.

Capitalism's Hidden Worlds

Author : Kenneth Lipartito
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812251814
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Capitalism's Hidden Worlds written by Kenneth Lipartito and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dynamic social history of shadow capitalism spanning the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries Observers see free markets, the relentless pursuit of profit, and the unremitting drive to commodify everything as capitalism's defining characteristics. These most visible economic features, however, obscure a range of other less evident, often unmeasured activities that occur on the margins and in the concealed corners of the formal economy. The range of practices in this large and diverse hidden realm encompasses traders in recycled materials and the architects of junk bonds and shadow banking. It includes the black and semi-licit markets that allow wealthy elites to avoid taxes and the unmeasured domestic and emotional labor of homemakers and home care workers. By some estimates, the unmeasured economic activity that occurs within the household, informal market, and underground economy amounts to a substantial portion of all economic activity in the world, as much as 30 percent in some countries. Capitalism's Hidden Worlds sheds new light on this shadowy economic landscape by reexamining how we think about the market. In particular, it scrutinizes the missed connections between the official, visible realm of exchange and the uncounted and invisible sectors that border it. While some hidden markets emerged in opposition to the formal economy, much of the obscured economy described in this volume operates as the other side of the legitimate, state-sanctioned marketplace. A variety of historical actors—from fortune tellers and forgers to tax lawyers and black market consumers—have constructed this unseen world in tandem with the observable public world of transactions. Others, such as feminist development economists and government regulators, have worked to bring the darkened corners of the economy to light. The essays in Capitalism's Hidden Worlds explore how the capitalist marketplace sustains itself, how it acquires legitimacy and even prestige, and how the marginalized and the dispossessed find ways to make ends meet. Contributors: Bruce Baker, Eileen Boris, Eli Cook, Hannah Frydman, James Hollis, Owen Hyman, Anna Kushkova, Christopher McKenna, Kenneth Mouré, Philip Scranton, Bryan Turo.

American Capitalism

Author : John Kenneth Galbraith
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1560006749
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book American Capitalism written by John Kenneth Galbraith and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic text in political economy. Reasserts the validity of the core thesis of American capitalism, exploring the balance of forces that create power and prestige in business and politics.

The Invention of Capitalism

Author : Michael Perelman
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822324911
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (249 download)

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Download or read book The Invention of Capitalism written by Michael Perelman and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-03 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVRethinks the history of classical political economy by assessing the Marxian idea of “primitive accumulation,” the process by which a propertyless working class is created./div

American Capitalism

Author : Louis Hyman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501171305
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book American Capitalism written by Louis Hyman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To understand the past and especially our own times, arguably no story is as essential to get right as the history of capitalism. Nearly all of our theories about promoting progress come from how we interpret the economic changes of the last 500 years. This past decade’s crises continue to remind us just how much capitalism changes, even as basic features like wage labor, financial markets, private property, and entrepreneurs endure. While capitalism has a global history, the United States plays a special role in that story. American Capitalism: A Reader will help you to understand how the United States became the world’s leading economic power, while revealing essential lessons about what has been and what will be possible in capitalism’s ongoing revolution. Combining a wealth of essential readings, introductions by Professors Baptist and Hyman, and questions to help guide readers through the materials and broader subject, this course reader will prepare students to think critically about the history of capitalism in America.

The Soul of Capitalism

Author : William Greider
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684862190
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book The Soul of Capitalism written by William Greider and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 beneficial corporate practices.

Capitalism

Author : Victor D. Lippit
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415273947
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (739 download)

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Download or read book Capitalism written by Victor D. Lippit and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This imaginative and ambitious book rethinks the nature of capitalism. Lippit, a leading heterodox economist in the USA, here delivers a comparative study of different forms of capitalism. He first critically examines the three main capitalist prototypes: * the Anglo-American, market-driven version * the welfare-state capitalism of continental Europe * the state-led capitalism of East Asia. After investigating their various intricacies, he then goes on to analyze the common weaknesses of each different strand. A provocative and stimulating read, this book will be welcomed by postgraduates and professionals in the fields of economics and political economy.

The Fictions of American Capitalism

Author : Jacques-Henri Coste
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030365646
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book The Fictions of American Capitalism written by Jacques-Henri Coste and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-26 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fictions of American Capitalism: Working Fictions and the Economic Novel introduces a new way of thinking about fiction in connection with capitalism, especially American capitalism. These essays demonstrate how fiction fulfills a major function of the American capitalist engine, presenting various formulations of American capitalism from the perspective of economists, social scientists, and literary critics. Focusing on three narratives—fictitious capital, working fictions, and the economic novel—the volume questions whether these three types of fiction can be linked under the sign of capitalism. This collection seeks to illustrate the American economy’s dependence on fictitiousness, America’s ideological fictions, and the nation’s creative literary fiction. In relation to what the credit and banking crisis of 2007–2008 exposed about the “unreal” base of the economy, the volume concludes with a call to recognize the economic humanities, arguing that American fiction and American literary studies can provide a useful mirror for economists.

The Accumulation of Capital

Author : Rosa Luxemburg
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The Accumulation of Capital written by Rosa Luxemburg and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Accumulation of Capital' is a book on Marxist economics written by Rosa Luxemburg. In the polemic, she argued that capitalism needs to constantly expand into non-capitalist areas in order to access new supply sources, markets for surplus-value, and reservoirs of labor. According to Luxemburg, Marx had made an error in Capital in that the proletariat could not afford to buy the commodities they produced, and therefore by his own criteria it was impossible for capitalists to make a profit in a closed-capitalist system since the demand for commodities would be too low, and therefore much of the value of commodities could not be transformed into money. Therefore, according to Luxemburg, capitalists sought to realize profits through offloading surplus commodities onto non-capitalist economies, hence the phenomenon of imperialism as capitalist states sought to dominate weaker economies. This however led to the destruction of non-capitalist economies as they were increasingly absorbed into the capitalist system. With the destruction of non-capitalist economies however, there would be no more markets to offload surplus commodities onto, and capitalism would break down.

Freedom from the Market

Author : Mike Konczal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781620975374
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (753 download)

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Download or read book Freedom from the Market written by Mike Konczal and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The progressive economics writer redefines the national conversation about American freedom Health insurance, student loan debt, retirement savings, child care, work-life balance, access to home ownership--these are the issues driving America's current political debates. And they are all linked, as this brilliant and timely book reveals, by a single question: should we allow the free market to determine our lives? In the tradition of Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine, noted economic commentator Mike Konczal answers this question with a resounding no. Freedom from the Market blends passionate political argument and a bold new take on American history to reveal that, from the earliest days of the republic, Americans have defined freedom as what we keep free from the control of the market. With chapters on the history of Homestead Act and land ownership, the eight-hour work day and free time, social insurance and Social Security, World War II day cares, Medicare and desegregation, free public colleges, intellectual property, and the public corporation, Konczal shows how citizens have fought to ensure that everyone has access to the conditions that make us free. At a time when millions of Americans--and more and more politicians--are questioning the unregulated free market as un-American, Freedom from the Market offers a new narrative, and new intellectual ammunition, for the fight that lies ahead.

23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

Author : Ha-Joon Chang
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608191664
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism written by Ha-Joon Chang and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges popular misconceptions while making startling revelations about free-market practices, explaining the author's views on global capitalism dynamics while making recommendations for reshaping capitalism to humane ends. By the author of Bad Samaritans.