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Capitalism

Just as Winston Churchill once said of democracy, capitalism might be the worst economic system, except for all the others. So you’ll find plenty of research, analyses and viewpoints here – both pro and con – on capitalism and the ongoing debates about it.

Summaries

8 Book

The Myth That Made Us

How False Beliefs about Racism and Meritocracy Broke Our Economy (and How to Fix It)
Jeff Fuhrer
MIT Press, 2023
8 Podcast

A Guide to the ‘Legal Fictions’ That Create Wealth, Inequality and Economic Crises

The legal scholar Katharina Pistor examines the hidden legal layer propping up our modern economic system.
Ezra Klein et al.
The New York Times, 2023
7 Book

Making Light Work

An End to Toil in the Twenty-First Century
David A. Spencer
Polity Press, 2022
8 Book

The Man Who Broke Capitalism

How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America―and How to Undo His Legacy
David Gelles
Simon & Schuster, 2022
8 Book
Thomas Piketty
Belknap Press, 2022
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Mutualism

Building the Next Economy from the Ground Up
Sara Horowitz
Random House, 2021
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Impact

Reshaping Capitalism to Drive Real Change
Sir Ronald Cohen
Ebury Press, 2020
7 Book

Lost in Work

Escaping Capitalism
Amelia Horgan
Pluto Press, 2021
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Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich

How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World
Deirdre N. McCloskey and Art Carden
University of Chicago Press, 2020
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Justin Leroy and Destin Jenkins
Columbia UP, 2021
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The Key Man

The True Story of How the Global Elite Was Duped by a Capitalist Fairy Tale
Simon Clark and Will Louch
Harper, 2021