The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Product DescriptionThis brilliant study opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and its view that change takes place through the conflict of opposites. Instead, Weber relates the rise of a capitalist economy to the Puritan determination to work out anxiety over salvation or damnation by performing good deeds — an effort that ultimately encouraged capitalism…. [...]

The End of Finance: Capital Market Inflation, Financial Derivatives and Pension Fund Capitalism (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)

Product DescriptionThis volume examines whether the present “era of finance” represents the best possible way of organizing economic affairs, arguing the ensuing economic instability and inefficiency create the preconditions for the end of the dominance of finance…. More >>
The End of Finance: Capital Market Inflation, Financial Derivatives and Pension Fund Capitalism (Routledge Frontiers of Political [...]

Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State

Product DescriptionAn Economist Book of the Year, 2008 This book presents a story of two Chinas – an entrepreneurial rural China and a state-controlled urban China. In the 1980s, rural China gained the upper hand, and the result was rapid as well as broad-based growth. In the 1990s, urban China triumphed. In [...]

The Monfort Plan: The New Architecture of Capitalism (Wiley Finance)

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Product DescriptionThe Monfort Plan is a five-year, forward looking plan to eradicate extreme poverty from the developing world, and details how microfinance has made a difference to developing countries. This book proposes a new institution based in the developing world with the potential to provide a [...]

Black Markets… and Business Blues: The Man-made Crisis of 2007-2009 and the Road to a New Capitalism

Black Markets… and Business Blues: The Man-made Crisis of 2007-2009 and the Road to a New Capitalism

In Ottawa, Brussels, Paris, Berlin, London, some policy makers in and around governments nudged their society towards the American model of business and finance, write Professors Allaire and Firsirotu. Shareholders , now a changing, transient and impatient cohort of [...]

Political Economy, Capitalism, and Popular Culture

Product DescriptionThis entertaining and enlightening book provides a guide to basic concepts and practices in capitalism, neoclassical economics, and political economy through an interpretation of popular films and novels of the past sixty years. Including works as varied as The Matrix, Lord of the Flies, The Dark Knight, Fight Club, and The Return of Martin [...]

Figures of Finance Capitalism: Writing, Class and Capital in Mid-Victorian Narratives (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)

Product DescriptionFigures of Finance Capitalism brings into focus the Victorian narratives by major middle-class writers that portray the workings of finance capitalism, placing such an interest in the context of middle-class misgivings about a class system still dominated by a patrician elite. This book illustrates the centrality of finance capitalism to the mid-Victorian middle-class social [...]

Ones Passion, Ones Ideas, Backbone of Capitalism

Ones Passion, Ones Ideas, Backbone of Capitalism
 
May 17 through May 23, 2009 was proclaimed “National Small Business” by Barack Obama.  The President’s proclamation recognized the economic impact small businesses have on America’s economy.  The private sector, for the last decade, is responsible for 70 percent of new jobs.  Imagine an economy without small businesses, half [...]

Capitalism Hits the Fan: Richard Wolff on the Economic Meltdown

Product DescriptionWith breathtaking clarity, renowned University of Massachusetts Economics Professor Richard Wolff breaks down the root causes of today’s economic crisis, showing how it was decades in the making and in fact reflects seismic failures within the structures of American-style capitalism itself. Wolff traces the source of the economic crisis to the 1970s, when wages [...]

Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction

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Product DescriptionRegular Harper?s and Financial Times contributor Barry C. Lynn paints a genuinely alarming picture: most of our public debates about globalization, competitiveness, creative destruction, and risky finance are nothing more than a cover for the widespread consolidation of power in nearly every imaginable sector of [...]

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