First published in 1994 and now available as an ebook. This edition does not include illustrations. Richard Branson is unique among today's folk heroes. Which other self-made British billionaire could lay claim to the highest esteem of our school children? Which other company chairman could be referred to by former BA Chairman Lord King as a 'pirate', having launched an airline largely on the profits of a pop song, and then go on to strike terror into the hearts of Coca-Cola...
Capitalism - Crises and Alternatives
by Sandra Ezquerra, Michel Husson, and Claudio Katz
How populism is fueled by the demise of the industrial order and the emergence of a new digital society ruled by algorithmsIn the revolutionary excitement of the 1960s, young people around the world called for a radical shift away from the old industrial order, imagining a future of technological liberation and unfettered prosperity. Industrial society did collapse, and a digital economy has risen to take its place, yet many are left feeling marginalized and deprived of the possibility of a bett...
What should be done to resolve the climate crisis? Daniel Tanuro argues that government measures - eco-taxes, commodification of natural resources and carbon trading - do not tackle the main problem: the drive for profit. Evidence from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and other sources demonstrates the impossibility of a sustainable "green capitalism." Green Capitalism includes a critique of popular writers on the environmental crisis, ranging from Jared Diamond to Hans Jonas, and i...
The dramatic rise—and unimaginable fall—of America's most iconic corporation by New York Times bestselling author and pre-eminent financial journalist William D. Cohan No company embodied American ingenuity, innovation, and industrial power more spectacularly and more consistently than the General Electric Company. GE once developed and manufactured many of the inventions we take for granted today, nearly everything from the lightbulb to the jet engine. GE also built a cult of financial and lea...
Neoliberalism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
by Manfred B. Steger and Ravi K Roy
Anchored in the principles of the free-market economics, 'neoliberalism' has been associated with such different political leaders as Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Augusto Pinochet, and Junichiro Koizumi. In its heyday during the late 1990s, neoliberalism emerged as the world's dominant economic paradigm stretching from the Anglo-American heartlands of capitalism to the former communist bloc all the way to the developing regions of the global South. At the dawn of...
Fifty Years in Wall Street (Wiley Investment Classics, #33)
by Henry Clews
The definitive look at Wall Street in the 19th Century Perhaps the 19th century's best book on Wall Street, Fifty Years in Wall Street provides a fascinating look at the financial markets during a period of rapid economic expansion. Henry Clews was a giant figure in finance at that time, and his firsthand account brings this colorful era to life like never before. He reveals shocking stories of political and economic manipulation and how he helped bring down the mighty Boss Tweed. He writes eloq...
Administered Protection in America (Routledge Revivals)
by Fellow in Strategic Management Alan Rugman and Andrew D. Anderson
Monsters Of The Market: Zombies, Vampires And Global Capitalism (Historical Materialism)
by David McNally
Monsters of the Market investigates the rise of capitalism through the prism of the body-panics it arouses. Drawing on folklore, literature and popular culture, the book links tales of monstrosity from early-modern England, including Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, to a spate of recent vampire and zombie fables from sub-Saharan Africa and it connects these to Marx's persistent use of monster-metaphors in his descriptions of capitalism.
Bill Gates is not only the world's most successful capitalist; he's the world's biggest philanthropist. Gates has approached philanthropy the same way he revolutionized computer software: with a fierce ambition to change the rules of the game. That's why at last year's annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Gates advocated a 'creative capitalism', in which big corporations should integrate doing good into their way of doing business. This controversial new idea is disc...
From one of Washington's most influential voices on economic policy, a lively and original argument that reducing inequality is not just fair but also key to delivering broadly shared economic growth and stability.Do we have to choose between equality and prosperity? Many think that reducing economic inequality would require such heavy-handed interference with market forces that it would stifle economic growth. Heather Boushey, one of Washington's most influential economic voices, insists nothin...
Mainstream, or more formally, neoclassical, economics claims to be a science. But as Michael Perelman makes clear in his latest book, nothing could be further from the truth. While a science must be rooted in material reality, mainstream economics ignores or distorts the most fundamental aspect of this reality: that the vast majority of people must, out of necessity, labor on behalf of others, transformed into nothing but a means to the end of maximum profits for their employers. The nature of t...
Diese Arbeit thematisiert die wettbewerbsrechtliche Einordnung von Menschenrechtsverletzungen bei der auslandischen Warenproduktion. Der Grundgedanke befasst sich mit der Frage, inwieweit der Vertrieb von Waren, die unter dem Einsatz von menschenverachtenden Formen der Kinderarbeit gefertigt wurden, als ein lauteres geschaftliches Verhalten i.S. des UWG angesehen werden kann. Dazu werden die Corporate Social Responsibility Publikationen als Werbeform einer lauterkeitsrechtlichen UEberprufung unt...
Jazz aus OEsterreich? Wurde dieser Aussage noch vor einigen Jahren mit grosser Skepsis entgegnet, so verfugt Wien heute uber eine der vitalsten, innovativsten und vielfaltigsten Jazzszenen Europas. Dieses Buch befasst sich erstmals mit soziologischen und oekonomischen Rahmenbedingungen der Wiener Jazzszene und erhellt bisher unbeachtete Aspekte der Arbeits- und Produktionsbedingungen von Jazzmusikern in Wien. Auch die oeffentliche Foerdersituation und ihre Folgen fur den Jazz in Wien werden unte...
In this important new book, Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi take a fresh look at the big questions surrounding the peculiar social form known as "capitalism," upending many of our commonly held assumptions about what capitalism is and how to subject it to critique. They show how, throughout its history, various regimes of capitalism have relied on a series of institutional separations between economy and polity, production and social reproduction, and human and non-human nature, periodically readj...