6 best-selling finance books like The Bubble and Beyond by Michael Hudson

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The Bubble and Beyond

By: Michael Hudson

4.14

Format: 504 pages, Paperback

The Bubble and Beyond describes how the fabulous expansive forces of industrial capitalism have bee…

"But money doesn’t work in the sense that labor or tangible capital expends effort to produce commodities. Credit is debt, and debt extracts interest. Financial salesmen who promise investors, “Make your money work for you"

-Michael Hudson, The Bubble and Beyond

"The motivation for taking on debt is to buy assets or claims rising in price. Over the past half-century the aim of financial investment has been less to earn profits on tangible capital investment than to generate “capital"

-Michael Hudson, The Bubble and Beyond

"When other countries run sustained trade deficits, they must finance these by selling off domestic assets or running into debt — debt which they actually are obliged to pay. It seems that only the Americans are so bold as to say “Screw the world. We’re going to do whatever we want."

-Michael Hudson, The Bubble and Beyond

"When foreign military spending [bombing Korea and Vietnam] forced the U.S. balance of payments into deficit and drove the United States off gold in 1971, central banks were left without the traditional asset used to settle payments imbalances. The alternative by default was to invest their subsequent payments inflows in U.S. Treasury bonds, as if these still were “as good as gold."

-Michael Hudson, The Bubble and Beyond

If you liked the finance plot in The Bubble and Beyond by Michael Hudson , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

3.86

Format: 572 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In his most ambitious project to date, award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson utilizes years of … read more

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"Why should I discuss it with you?"

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

"It's the love of right lures men to wrong."

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

"The beauty of Mars exists in the human mind,"

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

"In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing."

-Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1)

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2. Solaris

By: Stanisław Lem

3.99

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

A classic work of science fiction by renowned Polish novelist and satirist Stanislaw Lem. When K… read more

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"Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?"

-Stanisław Lem, Solaris

"If man had more of a sense of humour, things might have turned out differently."

-Stanisław Lem, Solaris

"I was still a prisoner in my nightmares, and every morning the play began again."

-Stanisław Lem, Solaris

"But what am I going to see? I don't know. In a certain sense, it depends on you."

-Stanisław Lem, Solaris

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3. The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

By: Ray Kurzweil

3.93

Format: 652 pages, Paperback

“Startling in scope and bravado.” —Janet Maslin,  The New York Times “Artfully envisions a breatht… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Play is just another version of work"

-Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

"Hoewel we de illusie hebben dat we beelden met hoge resolutie ontvangen van onze ogen, stuurt de oogzenuw slechts contouren en aanwijzingen over interessante punten in ons blikveld naar het brein. We…"

-Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

"We cannot rely on trial-and-error approaches to deal with existential risks… We need to vastly increase our investment in developing specific defensive technologies… We are at the critical stage toda…"

-Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

"Fredkin [...] praat over een interessant kenmerk van computerprogramma's, waaronder cellulaire automaten: er is geen kortere route mogelijk naar wat de uitkomst wordt. Dit is het wezenlijke verschil …"

-Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

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4. 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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  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • finance
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5. And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe's Crisis and America's Economic Future

By: Yanis Varoufakis

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A #1 Sunday Timesbestseller [UK] A titanic battle is being waged for Europe's integrity and soul, w… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • finance
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6. 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
  • economics
  • nonfiction
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7. 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
  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • finance
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8. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

By: Jared Diamond

3.93

Format: 608 pages, Paperback

Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of … read more

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  • politics
  • social science
  • economics
  • nonfiction
"...neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency."

-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

"History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency."

-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

"[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs."

-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

"The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the 1880s."

-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

9. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

By: Noam Chomsky , Edward S. Herman

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Paperback

Librarian's note: There are Alternate Cover Editions for this edition of this book . In this pathb… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
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10. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

By: Edward Gibbon , Daniel J. Boorstin , None , Hans-Friedrich Mueller

3.37

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Edited, abridged, and with a critical Foreword by Hans-Friedrich Mueller Introduction by Daniel J. … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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11. The Racket: A Rogue Reporter vs. the American Elite

By: Matt Kennard

4.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The story Americans are wont to tell themselves about their nation is a compelling one: the United … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction

12. 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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13. The Social Contract

By: Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Maurice Cranston

3.78

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

"Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains." These are the famous opening words of a trea… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"The truth brings no man a fortune"

-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

"L'homme est né libre, et partout il est dans les fers."

-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

"Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered." (Bk2:8)"

-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

"Renunciar a la libertad es renunciar a la condición de hombre."

-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

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14. The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

15. A Brief History of Neoliberalism

By: David Harvey

3.76

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

Neoliberalism--the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guid… read more

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16. 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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17. The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

By: John J. Mearsheimer

3.71

Format: 364 pages,

The update of this classic treatise on the behavior of great powers takes a penetrating look at the… read more

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18. The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement

By: David Graeber

3.20

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A bold rethinking of the most powerful political idea in the world--democracy--as seen through the … read more

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19. 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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20. A History of the Arab Peoples

By: Albert Hourani

3.53

Format: 349 pages,

Encyclopedic and panoramic in its scope, this fascinating work chronicles the rich spiritual, polit… read more

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21. The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values

By: Brian Christian

4.37

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

A jaw-dropping exploration of everything that goes wrong when we build AI systems and the movement … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Curiosity bred competence."

-Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values

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22. 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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  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
"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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23. The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

By: Vincent Bevins

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- ba… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"locals came to him, time and time again, and asked, with genuine mystification: 'We just don't understand America. You were once a colony. You know what colonialism is. You fought and bled and died f…"

-Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

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24. 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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  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • finance
"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

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25. 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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  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
"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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26. 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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  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • finance
"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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27. The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History

By: Ibn Khaldun

4.30

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Written by the Arab historian Ibn Khaldun in 1377 which records an early view of universal history.… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"اعلم أن الدنيا كلها و أحوالها (عند الشارع) مطية للآخرة، و من فقد المطية فقد الوصول."

-Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History

"قال المولي مخاطباً بني إسرائيل علي لسان موسى {يَا قَوْمِ ادْخُلُوا الأَرْضَ المُقَدَّسَةَ} فكان جوابهم {إِنَّ فِيهَا قَوْمًا جَبَّارِينَ وَإِنَّا لَن نَّدْخُلَهَا حَتَّىَ يَخْرُجُواْ مِنْهَا فَإِن يَخْرُجُواْ مِنْهَا} وقالوا له {فَاذْهَبْ أَنتَ وَرَبُّكَ فَقَاتِلا} = فعاقبهم …"

-Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History

"من كان مرباه بالعسف والقهر من المتعلمين أو المماليك أو الخدم سطا به القهر، وضيّق على النفس فى انبساطها، وذهب بنشاطها، ودعاه إلى الكسل، وحُمِلَ على الكذب والخبث وهو التظاهر بغير ما فى ضميره خوفـًا من انبسا…"

-Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History

"الفصل الثالث و العشرون : في أنالمغلوب مولع ابدا بالاقتداء بالغالب في شعاره, و زيه,و نحلته, و سائر أحواله و عوائده: و السبب في ذلك: أن النفس أبدا تعتقد الكمال في من غلبها و انقادت إليه. إما لنظره بالك…"

-Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History

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28. Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions

By: Johann Hari

4.27

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the Wa… read more

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  • nonfiction
"If you picture of a perfect After-life, it's being with the people you love all the time. He asked me: Why wouldn't you choose today: when you're still alive, to be truely present with the people you…"

-Johann Hari, Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions

"...Every one of the social and psychological causes of depression and anxiety they have discovered has something in common. They are all forms of disconnection. They are all ways in which we have bee…"

-Johann Hari, Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions

"Un día descubrió que nunca podía desembarazarse de «esa sensación de no tener un futuro». Ni siquiera se veía capaz de planificar con unos días de antelación. Los comentarios de sus amigos sobre hipo…"

-Johann Hari, Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions

"Robert Kohlenberg, a professor of psychology, once thought that depression and anxiety were different things. But as he studied it, he discovered that "the data are indicating they're not that distin…"

-Johann Hari, Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression - and the Unexpected Solutions

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29. A Theory of Imperialism

By: Utsa Patnaik

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In A Theory of Imperialism , economists Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik present a new theory of th… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
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30. The Bubble and Beyond

By: Michael Hudson

4.14

Format: 504 pages, Paperback

The Bubble and Beyond describes how the fabulous expansive forces of industrial capitalism have bee… read more

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  • social science
  • politics
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
"But money doesn’t work in the sense that labor or tangible capital expends effort to produce commodities. Credit is debt, and debt extracts interest. Financial salesmen who promise investors, “Make y…"

-Michael Hudson, The Bubble and Beyond

"The motivation for taking on debt is to buy assets or claims rising in price. Over the past half-century the aim of financial investment has been less to earn profits on tangible capital investment t…"

-Michael Hudson, The Bubble and Beyond

"When other countries run sustained trade deficits, they must finance these by selling off domestic assets or running into debt — debt which they actually are obliged to pay. It seems that only the Am…"

-Michael Hudson, The Bubble and Beyond

"When foreign military spending [bombing Korea and Vietnam] forced the U.S. balance of payments into deficit and drove the United States off gold in 1971, central banks were left without the tradition…"

-Michael Hudson, The Bubble and Beyond

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31. Capital and Imperialism: Theory, History, and the Present

By: Utsa Patnaik

4.51

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

A comprehensive survey of capitalism's colonialist roots and uncertain future Those who control … read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
"Imperialism is a relationship between capitalism and its setting, central to which is an imposition of a regime upon the setting that entails income deflation as a means of preventing the threat of i…"

-Utsa Patnaik, Capital and Imperialism: Theory, History, and the Present

"Protectionism, such as what U.S. president Donald Trump was attempting, amounts in effect under these circumstances (that is, in the absence of any significant expansion of state expenditure financed…"

-Utsa Patnaik, Capital and Imperialism: Theory, History, and the Present

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