Capitalism and its critics : a history : from the Industrial Revolution to AI / John Cassidy.
"A sweeping, dramatic history of capitalism as seen through the eyes of its fiercest critics. At a time when artificial intelligence, climate change, inequality, trade wars, and a right-wing populist backlash to globalization are raising fundamental questions about the economic system, Capitalism and Its Critics provides a kaleidoscopic history of global capitalism, from the East India Company and Industrial Revolution to the digital revolution. But here John Cassidy, a staff writer at The New Yorker and a Pulitzer Prize finalist, adopts a bold new approach: he tells the story through the eyes of the system's critics. From the English Luddites who rebelled against early factory automation to communists in Germany and Russia in the early twentieth century, to the Latin American dependistas, the international Wages for Housework campaign of the 1970s, and the modern degrowth movement, the absorbing narrative traverses the globe. It visits with familiar names-Smith, Marx, Luxemburg, Keynes, Polanyi-but also focuses on many less familiar figures, including Flora Tristan, the French proponent of a universal labor union; Thomas Carlyle, the conservative prophet of the moral depredations of the market; John Hobson, the original theorist of imperialism; J. C. Kumarappa, the Indian exponent of Gandhian economics; Eric Williams, the Trinidadian author of a famous thesis on slavery and capitalism; Joan Robinson, the Cambridge economist and critic of Keynes; and Samir Amin, the leftist French-Egyptian economist and analyst of globalization."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374601089
- ISBN: 0374601089
- Physical Description: ix, 609 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025
- Copyright: ©2025
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [519]-569) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- "The roguery practised in this department is beyond imagination": William Bolts and the East India Company -- "The mean rapacity, the monopolising spirit of merchants and manufacturers": Adam Smith on colonial capitalism and slavery -- "On the brink for the last struggle": the logic of the Luddites -- "It is time...to seek for a radical, a permanent cure of the evils that afflict society": William Thompson's utilitarian socialism -- "In speaking of the degraded position of my sex": Anna Wheeler and the forgotten half of humanity -- "Abandon your isolation: unite with each other!": Flora Tristan and the Universal Workers' Union -- "One of the shabbiest gospels ever preached on Earth": Thomas Carlyle on Mammon and Cash Nexus -- "The war of the poor against the rich will be the bloodiest ever waged": Friedrich Engles and the Communist Manifesto -- "Our friend, moneybags": Karl Marx's capitalist laws of motion -- "We must make land common property": Henry George's moral crusade -- "The ideal pecuniary man is like the ideal delinquent": Thorstein Veblen and the captains of industry -- "A particularly crude form of capitalism": John Hobson's theory of imperialism -- "Capital knows no other solution to the problem than violence": Rosa Luxemburg on capitalism, colonialism, and war -- "The rhythm of long cycles": Nikolai Kondratiev and the dynamics of capitalist development -- "The more troublous the times, the worse does a laissez-faire system work": John Maynard Keynes's blueprint for managed capitalism -- "The time was ripe for the fascist solution": Karl Polanyi's warnings about capitalism and democracy -- "The bankruptcy of reform": two skeptics of Keynesianism: Paul Sweezy and Michal Kalecki -- "Economics once more became political economy": Joan Robinson and the "bastard Keynesians" -- "Nature...faithful and submissive to those who respect her": J.C. Kumarappa and the economics of permanence -- "Vast sugar factories owned by a camarilla of absentee capitalist magnates and worked by a mass of alien proletarians": Eric Williams on slavery and capitalism -- "The periphery of the economic system": the rise and fall of dependecy theory in Latin America -- "Shock treatment": Milton Friedman and the rise of neoliberalism -- "Any use of the natural resources for the satisfaction of non-vital needs means a smaller quantity of life in the future": Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen and the limits to growth -- "A true masterpiece at the expense of women": Silvia Federici and wages for hoursework -- "It is a form of regressive modernisation": theorists of Thatcherism: Stuart Hall vs. Friedrich Hayek -- "Social disintegration is not a spectator sport": parsing globalization: Samir Amin, Dani Rodrik, and Joseph Stiglitz -- "A historically unprecedented situation": Thomas Piketty and rising inequality -- "A confluence that could propel a new paradigm": the end of capitalism, or the beginning?
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