A People's Guide to Capitalism
An Introduction to Marxist Economics
Haymarket Books · Print & ebook · September 3, 2020
Economists regularly promote Capitalism as the greatest system ever to grace the planet.
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- Who it’s for
- A Marxist introduction that takes familiar defenses of capitalism seriously enough to question them.
- Genres
- Economic Theory, Capitalism & Markets, Political Economy
- Published
- Haymarket Books, September 3, 2020
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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.
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This book offers answers to exactly these questions on their own terms: in the form of a radical economic theory.
Markets, Reconsidered
A Marxist introduction that takes familiar defenses of capitalism seriously enough to question them.
Come here for
- A radical economic lens on inequality and environmental destruction
- Questions about who gets to explain how markets work
Expect
- An accessible challenge to leaving economic understanding to the experts
- A focus on capitalism’s inequality and environmental costs
Where it sits
| Capitalism & Markets | 52% |
|---|---|
| Political Economy | 42% |
| Economic Theory | 36% |
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Publisher categories
- Economic Theory
- Communism & Socialism
- Political Economy
- Authors
- Hadas Thier
- Publisher
- Haymarket Books
- Published
- September 3, 2020
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Economic Theory