[PDF] Challengers To Capitalism eBook

Author : John G. Gurley
Publisher : San Francisco : San Francisco Book Company
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 33,47 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Political Science
ISBN :

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From the Back Cover: A nonpolemical examination of the three giants of Marxism-a movement that has spread in only sixty years to encompass one-third of the world, yet is little understood by most Americans. Dr. Gurley, former managing editor of the American Economic Review and vice president of the American Economic Association, provides perhaps the clearest summary of dialectical materialism ever published. In a penetrating analysis, he relates Marx the theoretician, Lenin the revolutionary, and Mao the society builder to each other in terms of the development of Marxian thought and the historical forces stemming from it. At a time when millions of Americans are wondering about the long-term future of world capitalism, Dr. Gurley offers his own thoughtful and provocative predictions.

Author : Allan H. Meltzer
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 32,31 MB
Release : 2012-02-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199859574

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Why Capitalism? addresses the current debate among politicians, scholars in the political sciences, and general readers on the benefits and the supposed shortcomings of capitalism.

Author : Branko Milanovic
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 19,78 MB
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674260309

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For the first time in history, the globe is dominated by one economic system. Capitalism prevails because it delivers prosperity and meets desires for autonomy. But it also is unstable and morally defective. Surveying the varieties and futures of capitalism, Branko Milanovic offers creative solutions to improve a system that isn’t going anywhere.

Author : Robert Gilpin
Publisher :
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 37,70 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691092799

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Arguing that global markets must rest on secure political institutions, the author examines the global economy and the forces that shape it and hinder it in the world.

Author : Cihan Tuğal
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,60 MB
Release : 2009-04-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0804771170

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Over the last decade, pious Muslims all over the world have gone through contradictory transformations. Though public attention commonly rests on the turn toward violence, this book's stories of transformation to "moderate Islam" in a previously radical district in Istanbul exemplify another experience. In a shift away from distrust of the state to partial secularization, Islamists in Turkey transitioned through a process of absorption into existing power structures. With rich descriptions of life in the district of Sultanbeyli, this unique work investigates how religious activists organized, how authorities defeated them, and how the emergent pro-state Justice and Development Party incorporated them. As Tuğal reveals, the absorption of a radical movement was not simply the foregone conclusion of an inevitable world-historical trend but an outcome of contingent struggles. With a closing comparative look at Egypt and Iran, the book situates the Turkish case in a broad historical context and discusses why Islamic politics have not been similarly integrated into secular capitalism elsewhere.

Author : Kleio Akrivou
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 50,42 MB
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1784717916

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The evolution of modern capitalist society is increasingly being marked by an undeniable and consistent tension between pure economic and ethical ways of valuing and acting. This book is a collaborative and cross-disciplinary contribution that challenges the assumptions of capitalist business and society. It ultimately reflects on how to restore benevolence, collaboration, wisdom and various forms of virtuous deliberation amongst all those who take part in the common good, drawing inspiration from European history and continental philosophical traditions on virtue.

Author : Nick Srnicek
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 38,76 MB
Release : 2017-05-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1509504885

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What unites Google and Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, Siemens and GE, Uber and Airbnb? Across a wide range of sectors, these firms are transforming themselves into platforms: businesses that provide the hardware and software foundation for others to operate on. This transformation signals a major shift in how capitalist firms operate and how they interact with the rest of the economy: the emergence of ‘platform capitalism’. This book critically examines these new business forms, tracing their genesis from the long downturn of the 1970s to the boom and bust of the 1990s and the aftershocks of the 2008 crisis. It shows how the fundamental foundations of the economy are rapidly being carved up among a small number of monopolistic platforms, and how the platform introduces new tendencies within capitalism that pose significant challenges to any vision of a post-capitalist future. This book will be essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how the most powerful tech companies of our time are transforming the global economy." Also available as an audiobook.