10 Top business books like Can We Avoid Another Financial Crisis? (The Future of Capitalism) by Steve Keen

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Can We Avoid Another Financial Crisis? (The Future of Capitalism)

By: Steve Keen

4.25

Format: 140 pages, Hardcover

The Great Financial Crash had cataclysmic effects on the global economy, and took conventional econ…

"... capitalism encourages risk-taking and optimism, which in turn leads to innovation that transforms both production and society itself... However, innovation and growth generate a milieu of pervasive uncertainty: since the process of innovation itself transforms the future, there is no capacity for a rational anticipation of it."

-Steve Keen, Can We Avoid Another Financial Crisis? (The Future of Capitalism)

"... capitalism encourages risk-taking and optimism, which in turn leads to innovation that transforms both production and society itself... However, innovation and growth generate a milieu of pervasive uncertainty: since the process of innovation itself transforms the future, there is no capacity for a rational anticipation of it."

-Steve Keen, Can We Avoid Another Financial Crisis? (The Future of Capitalism)

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1. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

By: Michael Lewis

4.30

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

The #1 New York Times bestseller: "It is the work of our greatest financial journalist, at the top … read more

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"Time is a variable continuum."

-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

"It is ludicrous to believe that asset bubbles can only be recognized in hindsight,"

-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

"Long Beach Savings was the first existing bank to adopt what was called the “originate and sell"

-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

"When you’re a conservative Republican, you never think people are making money by ripping other people off,"

-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

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2. Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

By: Johann Hari

3.98

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

New York TimesBestseller It is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned in the United St… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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3. The Global Minotaur: America, the True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy

By: Yanis Varoufakis

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

In this remarkable and provocative book, Yanis Varoufakis explores the myth that financialisation, … read more

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4. Das Kapital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more

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  • politics
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5. Debt: The First 5,000 Years

By: David Graeber

3.61

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was inve… read more

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  • politics
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6. The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions

By: Jason Hickel

3.40

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

For decades we have been told a story about the divide between rich countries and poor countries. … read more

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7. The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

By: Amitav Ghosh

4.05

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well… read more

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  • politics
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"[T]he great, irreplaceable potentiality of fiction is that it makes possible the imagining of possibilities."

-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

"[C]apitalist trade and industry cannot thrive without access to military and political power. State interventions have always been critical to its advancement."

-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

"Where it concerns human beings, it is almost always true that the more anxiously we look for purity the more likely we are to come upon admixture and interbreeding."

-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

"As an instrument of empowerment oil has been spectacularly effective in removing the levers of power from the reach of the populace. "No matter how many people take to the streets in massive marches,…"

-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

8. Race Matters

By: Cornel West

3.88

Format: 383 pages, Paperback

In this essay collection, many of which have previously appeared in journals, West, the director of… read more

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9. War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier

By: Adam Parfrey , Smedley D. Butler

3.93

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Major General Smedley D. Butler was a military hero of the first rank, the winner of two Medals of … read more

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10. Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

By: Ha-Joon Chang

4.27

Format: 127 pages,

A rising young star in the field of economics attacks the free-trade orthodoxy of The World Is Flat… read more

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11. Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

By: Vladimir Lenin

4.23

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

'Globalisation' is the buzzword of the 1990s. VI Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitali… read more

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"Crises of every kind — economic crises more frequently, but not only these — in their turn increase very considerably the tendency towards concentration and monopoly."

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

"At the basis of these swindles and manipulations lies socialised production; but the immense progress of humanity, which achieved this socialisation, goes to benefit the speculators."

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

"But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop…"

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

"As long as capitalism remains what it is, surplus capital will never be utilised for the purpose of raising the standard of living of the masses in a given country, for this would mean a decline in p…"

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

12. 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

By: Ha-Joon Chang

3.00

Format: 136 pages,

In "23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism", one of today's most iconoclastic thinkers dest… read more

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13. Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World

By: Adam Tooze

None

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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  • politics
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14. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

By: David Graeber

4.20

Format: 692 pages, Hardcover

A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more

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"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

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15. The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy

By: Stephanie Kelton

4.04

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Bestseller The leading thinker and most visible public advocate of modern monetary… read more

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16. How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

By: Vaclav Smil

3.97

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If … read more

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"Найліпше нашу пасивність і надзвичайну складність проблеми глобального потепління можна проілюструвати таким фактом: тридцять років масштабних міжнародних кліматичних конференцій ніяк не вплинули на …"

-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

"У 2010-х роках саме джипи стали другою найбільшою причиною зростання викидів CO2, лишивши позаду важку промисловість, вантажоперевезення й авіацію. Обігнала їх тільки електроенергетика. Якщо народна …"

-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

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17. Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails

By: Yanis Varoufakis

4.13

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

In Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, activist Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former finance min… read more

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"The Matrix is a reflection of our times, or at least our anxieties. It reveals our fear of a mechanization so complete, of a commodification of our bodies and enslavement of our minds so successful, …"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails

"...a cynical person is someone who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing. Our societies tend to make us all cynics. And no one is more cynical than the economist who sees exchange va…"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails

"Bürokrasi, Ordu ve Ruhban Sınıfı Borç, para, inanç ve devlet el ele yürür. Borç olmadan tarımsal fazlalığı yönetmenin kolay yolu yoktur. Borcun ortaya çıkışıyla paranın yıldızı parlamaya başladı. Anc…"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails

"Like any ecosystem, a modern economy cannot survive without recycling. Just as animals and plants are continually recycling the oxygen and carbon dioxide that the other provides, so too must workers …"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails

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18. Central Banking 101

By: Joseph J. Wang

4.41

Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition

Central banking is magic. With a few words, the Fed can lift the stock market out of desperation an… read more

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19. Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

By: Jason Hickel

4.51

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we mu… read more

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"Individuality is an illusion. Life on this planet is an interwoven mesh of relational becoming."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

"We will find ourselves plunging into ecological collapse well before we run into the limits to growth."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

"It is politically easier to rev up GDP and hope some of it trickles down to the poor than it is to distribute existing income more fairly."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

"Atmospheric carbon concentration should not breach 350ppm if the climate is to remain stable (we crossed that boundary in 1990, and hit 415ppm in 2020)."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

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20. 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

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21. Can We Avoid Another Financial Crisis? (The Future of Capitalism)

By: Steve Keen

4.25

Format: 140 pages, Hardcover

The Great Financial Crash had cataclysmic effects on the global economy, and took conventional econ… read more

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"... capitalism encourages risk-taking and optimism, which in turn leads to innovation that transforms both production and society itself... However, innovation and growth generate a milieu of pervasi…"

-Steve Keen, Can We Avoid Another Financial Crisis? (The Future of Capitalism)

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