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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

9 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
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Technofeudalism

What Killed Capitalism
Yanis Varoufakis
Melville House, 2023
8 Book
Thomas Piketty
Belknap 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
Milton Friedman
University of Chicago Press, 2002
7 Book

Capitalism’s Toxic Assumptions

Redefining Next Generation Economics
Eve Poole
Bloomsbury, 2015
9 Book
Jerry Z. Muller
Princeton UP, 2010
8 Book

Value Creation Principles

The Pragmatic Theory of the Firm Begins with Purpose and Ends with Sustainable Capitalism
Bartley J. Madden
Wiley, 2020
9 Book
Thomas Piketty
Belknap Press, 2014
8 Book

Radical Markets

Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society
Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl
Princeton UP, 2018
9 Book

Creating a World Without Poverty

Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
Muhammad Yunus
Public Affairs, 2008
8 Book
Anne Case and Angus Deaton
Princeton UP, 2020