Author: Oliver James Publisher: Random House ISBN: 0091924162 Category : Capitalism Languages : en Pages : 306
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In the bestselling 'Affluenza', world-renowned psychologist Oliver James introduced us to a modern-day virus sweeping the English-speaking world. Now 'The Selfish Capitalist' provides more detailed substantiation for the claims he has already made.
Author: Oliver James Publisher: Oliver James Productions Lt ISBN: 9780957277915 Category : Capitalism Languages : en Pages : 296
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In the bestselling 'Affluenza', world-renowned psychologist Oliver James introduced us to a modern-day virus sweeping the English-speaking world. Now 'The Selfish Capitalist' provides more detailed substantiation for the claims he has already made.
Author: Paul Collier Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0062748661 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 369
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Bill Gates's Five Books for Summer Reading 2019 From world-renowned economist Paul Collier, a candid diagnosis of the failures of capitalism and a pragmatic and realistic vision for how we can repair it. Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of the United States and other Western societies: thriving cities versus rural counties, the highly skilled elite versus the less educated, wealthy versus developing countries. As these divides deepen, we have lost the sense of ethical obligation to others that was crucial to the rise of post-war social democracy. So far these rifts have been answered only by the revivalist ideologies of populism and socialism, leading to the seismic upheavals of Trump, Brexit, and the return of the far-right in Germany. We have heard many critiques of capitalism but no one has laid out a realistic way to fix it, until now. In a passionate and polemical book, celebrated economist Paul Collier outlines brilliantly original and ethical ways of healing these rifts—economic, social and cultural—with the cool head of pragmatism, rather than the fervor of ideological revivalism. He reveals how he has personally lived across these three divides, moving from working-class Sheffield to hyper-competitive Oxford, and working between Britain and Africa, and acknowledges some of the failings of his profession. Drawing on his own solutions as well as ideas from some of the world’s most distinguished social scientists, he shows us how to save capitalism from itself—and free ourselves from the intellectual baggage of the twentieth century.
Author: Ron Roberts Publisher: John Hunt Publishing ISBN: 1782796533 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 116
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Psychology and Capitalism is a critical and accessible account of the ideological and material role of psychology in supporting capitalist enterprise and holding individuals entirely responsible for their fate through the promotion of individualism.
Author: Marta Russell Publisher: Haymarket Books ISBN: 1608467163 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 232
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Spread out over many years and many different publications, the late author and activist Marta Russell wrote a number of groundbreaking and insightful essays on the nature of disability and oppression under capitalism. In this volume, Russell’s various essays are brought together in one place in order to provide a useful and expansive resource to those interested in better understanding the ways in which the modern phenomenon of disability is shaped by capitalist economic and social relations. The essays range in analysis from the theoretical to the topical, including but not limited to: the emergence of disability as a “human category” rooted in the rise of industrial capitalism and the transformation of the conditions of work, family, and society corresponding thereto; a critique of the shortcomings of a purely “civil rights approach” to addressing the persistence of disability oppression in the economic sphere, with a particular focus on the legacy of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990; an examination of the changing position of disabled people within the overall system of capitalist production utilizing the Marxist economic concepts of the reserve army of the unemployed, the labor theory of value, and the exploitation of wage-labor; the effects of neoliberal capitalist policies on the living conditions and social position of disabled people as it pertains to welfare, income assistance, health care, and other social security programs; imperialism and war as a factor in the further oppression and immiseration of disabled people within the United States and globally; and the need to build unity against the divisive tendencies which hide the common economic interest shared between disabled people and the often highly-exploited direct care workers who provide services to the former.
Author: Jason F. Brennan Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317907876 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 90
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Most economists believe capitalism is a compromise with selfish human nature. As Adam Smith put it, "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest." Capitalism works better than socialism, according to this thinking, only because we are not kind and generous enough to make socialism work. If we were saints, we would be socialists. In Why Not Capitalism?, Jason Brennan attacks this widely held belief, arguing that capitalism would remain the best system even if we were morally perfect. Even in an ideal world, private property and free markets would be the best way to promote mutual cooperation, social justice, harmony, and prosperity. Socialists seek to capture the moral high ground by showing that ideal socialism is morally superior to realistic capitalism. But, Brennan responds, ideal capitalism is superior to ideal socialism, and so capitalism beats socialism at every level. Clearly, engagingly, and at times provocatively written, Why Not Capitalism? will cause readers of all political persuasions to re-evaluate where they stand vis-à-vis economic priorities and systems—as they exist now and as they might be improved in the future.
Author: Jay W. Richards Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0061874566 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 276
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In Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism is the Solution and Not the Problem, Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute Jay W. Richards and bestselling author of Indivisible: Restoring Faith, Family, and Freedom Before It's Too Late and Infiltrated: How to Stop the Insiders and Activists Who Are Exploiting the Financial Crisis to Control Our Lives and Our Fortunes, defends capitalism within the context of the Christian faith, revealing how entrepreneurial enterprise, based on hard work, honesty, and trust, actually fosters creativity and growth. In doing so, Money, Greed, and God exposes eight myths about capitalism, and demonstrates that a good Christian can be a good capitalist.
Author: Oliver James Publisher: Random House ISBN: 0091900115 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 594
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Are you affected with affluenza ? -- Prologue -- Pt. l. The virus : 1. New York -- 2. Global infection -- Pt. ll. The vaccines : 3. Have positive volition (not 'think positive') -- 4. Replace virus motives (with intrinsic ones) -- 5. Be beautiful (not attractive) -- 6. Consume what you need (not what advertisers want you to want) -- 7. Meet your children's needs (not those of little adults) -- 8. Educate your children (don't brainwash them) -- 9. Enjoy motherhood (not desperate housewifery / househusbandry) -- 10. Be authentic (not sincere), vivacious (not hyperactive) and playful (not game-playing) -- Pt. lll. Wakey Wakey! : 11. Personal implications : prepare to feel better -- 12. Political implications : the unselfish capitalist manifesto -- Appendices : Appendix 1 : Emotional distress and inequality in the WHO study -- Appendix 2 : Emotional distress and inequality : selfish vs unselfish capitalist nations -- Appendix 3 : Emotional distress in the fifteenth nations of the WHO study.
Author: Anwar Shaikh Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199390657 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 1019
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Orthodox economics operates within a hypothesized world of perfect competition in which perfect consumers and firms act to bring about supposedly optimal outcomes. The discrepancies between this model and the reality it claims to address are then attributed to particular imperfections in reality itself. Most heterodox economists seize on this fact and insist that the world is characterized by imperfect competition. But this only ties them to the notion of perfect competition, which remains as their point of departure and base of comparison. There is no imperfection without perfection. In Capitalism, Anwar Shaikh takes a different approach. He demonstrates that most of the central propositions of economic analysis can be derived without any reference to standard devices such as hyperrationality, optimization, perfect competition, perfect information, representative agents, or so-called rational expectations. This perspective allows him to look afresh at virtually all the elements of economic analysis: the laws of demand and supply, the determination of wage and profit rates, technological change, relative prices, interest rates, bond and equity prices, exchange rates, terms and balance of trade, growth, unemployment, inflation, and long booms culminating in recurrent general crises. In every case, Shaikh's innovative theory is applied to modern empirical patterns and contrasted with neoclassical, Keynesian, and Post-Keynesian approaches to the same issues. Shaikh's object of analysis is the economics of capitalism, and he explores the subject in this expansive light. This is how the classical economists, as well as Keynes and Kalecki, approached the issue. Anyone interested in capitalism and economics in general can gain a wealth of knowledge from this ground-breaking text.
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