The support economy : why corporations are failing individuals and the next e…

Includes bibliographical references and index, Bridging the chasm -- pt. 1. Challenge: new people, new markets -- Dreaming economic revolution -- How managerial capitalism made new people -- The new society of individuals -- The individual as history's shock absorber -- The individuation of consumption -- pt. 2. Crisis: old organizations meet new people -- The transaction crisis -- Organization…

Climate Capitalism :Winning The Race to Zero Emissions and Solving The Crisis…

Our age will be defined by the climate emergency. Contrary to the doomist narrative that's taken hold about the climate emergency, the world has already begun deploying the solutions needed to deal with it. On a journey across five continents, Climate Capitalism tracks the unlikely heroes driving the fight against climate change. From the Chinese bureaucrat who did more to make electric cars a …

Capitalism and freedom

Selected by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the "hundred most influential books since the war"How can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threat it poses to individual freedom? In this classic book, Milton Friedman provides the definitive statement of his immensely influential economic philosophy—one in which competitive capitalism serves as both a device for …

Capitalism, socialism, and democracy

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy remains one of the greatest works of social theory written this century. When it first appeared the New English Weekly predicted that `for the next five to ten years it will cetainly remain a work with which no one who professes any degree of information on sociology or economics can afford to be unacquainted.' Fifty years on, this prediction seems a little u…

23 things they don't tell you about capitalism

Shows how economic system really works, including: There's no such thing as a 'free' market; Globalization isn't making the world richer; We don't live in a digital world - the washing machine has changed lives more than the internet; Poor countries are more entrepreneurial than rich ones; and, Higher paid managers don't produce better results

Capitalism with Chinese characteristics : entrepreneurship and the state

This title explains why China grew differently in the 1980s than in the 1990s and beyond, and what consequences this has today.

Re-envisioning global development: a horizontal perspective

Re-Envisioning Global Development offers an original conceptualisation of capitalist development from its origins to the present day. Most approaches to understanding contemporary development assume that industrial capitalism was achieved through a process of nationally organised economic growth, and that in recent years its organisation has become increasingly trans-local or global. However, H…

Capitalism: its origins and evolution as a system of governance

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9781461418788

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672 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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[POL-LIB-170]

The unknown Marx: reconstructing a unified perspective

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0745316980

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xxv, 214 p. ; 23 cm.

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[POL-LIB-111]

Governance amid bigger, better markets

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0815702000

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viii, 354 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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[POL-LIB-102]