Demonstrates that a true liberal capitalism has the capacity to enable
personal well-being while dealing with new challenges such as
pandemics, climate change, and automation. Capitalism has lost its
glamor. In just three decades since it "defeated" a totalitarian
Soviet Union, capitalism is today blamed for slowing growth, a
dangerously changing climate, inequality, social misery, and a rise in
nationalist populism. How did capitalism fall so far from grace?
Capitalism for All show how, quite simply, the governments of the
world's wealthiest countries have forgotten capitalism's initial
purpose. It was born out of a liberal philosophy that values the
competition of ideas and goods in the service of social progress while
respecting the individual and preventing excessive power. Yet, with
the aid of governments, giant corporations, or "MegaCorps," have
usurped power, dominated markets, and reduced competition. The result
is not liberal capitalism but what Neil E. Harrison and John Mikler
term "CorpoCapitalism," which results in an unhappy populace seeking
radical political change while challenges like climate change continue
to race forward largely unchecked. Capitalism for All explores how
CorpoCapitalism came to be, argues that it is not inevitable, and
explains how governments can wrest back power and create a capitalism
for all.
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ISBN
9781438486994
Publisert
2021
Utgiver
State University of New York Press (SUNY Press)
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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