Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World
By: Branko Milanović
4.11
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A provocative account of capitalism's rise to global dominance and, as different models of capitali…
Want to Read $ 12.60"The fact that the entire globe now operates according to the same economic principles—production organized for profit using legally free wage labor and mostly privately owned capital, with decentralized coordination—is without historical precedent."-Branko Milanović, Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World
"The fact that the entire globe now operates according to the same economic principles—production organized for profit using legally free wage labor and mostly privately owned capital, with decentralized coordination—is without historical precedent."-Branko Milanović, Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World
"because of constant pressure to deliver more to its constituents, political capitalism might hone its ability to manage the economic sphere well and to keep on delivering, year in year out, more goods and services than its liberal counterpart. Thus, what appear at first as a defect may prove to be an advantage."-Branko Milanović, Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World
"because of constant pressure to deliver more to its constituents, political capitalism might hone its ability to manage the economic sphere well and to keep on delivering, year in year out, more goods and services than its liberal counterpart. Thus, what appear at first as a defect may prove to be an advantage."-Branko Milanović, Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World
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1. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
By: Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding
4.42
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring… read more
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"It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial ru…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into s…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"Governor Cameroon of Tanganyika in the 1920s was known as a "progressive" governor. But when he was attacked for trying to preserve the African personality in the educational system, he denied the ch…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
2. The Little Book That Beats the Market
By: Joel Greenblatt , Andrew Tobias
3.86
Format: 445 pages, Hardcover
Two years in MBA school won't teach you how to double the market's return. Two hours with The Littl… read more
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3. Liquid Modernity
By: Zygmunt Bauman
3.45
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focus… read more
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4. As Meninas
By: Lygia Fagundes Telles
3.87
Format: 268 pages,
Nao foram muitos os escritores que, no auge da ditadura militar no Brasil, abordaram em seus textos… read more
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5. The Hour of the Star
By: Clarice Lispector , Giovanni Pontiero
4.09
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narr… read more
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"Sou um monstro ou isso é ser uma pessoa?"-Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star
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6. The Worldly Philosophers
By: Robert L. Heilbroner
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Worldly Philosophersnot only enables us to see more deeply into our history but helps us better… read more
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7. Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
By: Adam Tooze
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Format: 720 pages, Hardcover
"An intelligent explanation of the mechanisms that produced the crisis and the response to it...One… read more
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8. Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
By: Yanis Varoufakis
4.01
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The #1 bestselling economist shows how capitalism has been replaced by a more exploitative system, … read more
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"Il profitto è vulnerabile alla competizione di mercato, mentre la rendita non lo è."-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"Se non è un mercato capitalista, in cosa entriamo, buon Dio, quando andiamo su amazon.com ?"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"Oltre ad avvertirci che ogni nuova epoca forgiata da qualche tecnologia rivoluzionaria produce una generazione che “mai passerà un giorno immune da fatica e dolore, struggendosi anche di notte"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
"La rivoluzione digitale potrebbe consistere nel trasformare i lavoratori salariati in proletari del cloud, che vivono una vita sempre più precaria e stressante sotto il controllo invisibile di capi a…"-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
9. Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
By: Rachel Aviv
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Strangers to Ourselves, a powerful and gripping debut, Rachel Aviv raises fundamental questions … read more
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"It's startling to realize how narrowly we avoid, or miss, living radically different lives."-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
"For a child, solipsistic by nature, there are limits to the ways that despair can be communicated. Culture shapes the scripts that expressions of distress will follow. In both anorexia and resignatio…"-Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
10. 21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19
By: Ben S. Bernanke
4.21
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Economics and former chair of the Federal Reserve explains th… read more
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11. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
By: Daniel Kahneman
3.66
Format: 454 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow and the co-author of Nudge, a groundbreaking… read more
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12. The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy
By: Mariana Mazzucato
4.08
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Modern economies reward activities that extract value rather than create it. This must change to in… read more
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"Governments and central banks were quietly admitting something they were still reluctant to announce publicly: the extraordinary power of private-sector banks lending to determine the pace of money c…"-Mariana Mazzucato, The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy
"In essence, we behave as economic actors according to the vision of the world of those who device the accounting conventions. The marginalist theory of value underlying contemporary national accounti…"-Mariana Mazzucato, The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy
13. Capital and Ideology
By: Thomas Piketty
4.28
Format: 1104 pages, Hardcover
The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global… read more
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"Change comes when the short-term logic of events, intersects with the long term evolution of ideas."-Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology
"Every human society must justify its inequalities: unless reasons for them are found, the whole political and social edifice stands in danger of collapse."-Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology
"Billionaires think that anything goes, are enamored of geoengineering, and detest nothing so much as simple but unpleasant solutions (such as paying taxes and living quietly)."-Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology
"We find the same pattern in virtually every region of the world: the identity cleavage deepened and conflicts over boundaries intensified while the wealth cleavage weakened and criticism of wealth be…"-Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology
14. The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
By: Gary Gerstle
4.19
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
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15. The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
By: Katharina Pistor
4.04
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A compelling explanation of how the law shapes the distribution of wealth Capital is the definin… read more
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16. Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World
By: Branko Milanović
4.11
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A provocative account of capitalism's rise to global dominance and, as different models of capitali… read more
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"The fact that the entire globe now operates according to the same economic principles—production organized for profit using legally free wage labor and mostly privately owned capital, with decen…"-Branko Milanović, Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World
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"Fears of robotics and technology arise, I think, from two human frailties. One is cognitive: we simply do not know what future technological change will be and thus cannot tell what new jobs will b…"-Branko Milanović, Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World
17. On Love and Tyranny: The Life and Politics of Hannah Arendt
By: Ann Heberlein
3.91
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
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18. Pecar e perdoar: Deus e o homem na história
By: Leandro Karnal
4.09
Format: 179 pages, Kindle Edition
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19. Ideologias
By: Gabriela Prioli
4.32
Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition
Autora do best-seller Política é para todos , Gabriela Prioli explica quem são e o que pensam os li… read more
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20. Marx: Uma Introdução
By: Jorge Grespan
4.46
Format: 104 pages, Paperback
Jorge Grespan é conhecido entre os estudiosos brasileiros de Marx por obras densas, com abordagens … read more
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