Tag: Capitalism

Free Download Techno-Capitalism: The Rise of the New Robber Barons and the Fight for the Common Good (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CYQX9Q6C | 2024 | 10 hours and 00 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 264 MB
Author: Loretta Napoleoni
Narrator: Wendy Tremont King
The respected Italian economist and journalist offers a bold and provocative argument that the speed of technological transformation is threatening our future. At the dawn of the digital revolution, the internet was going to be the great equalizer, a global democratic force. Instead, Wall Street ended up funding a new breed of serial capitalists, the Techtitans, who embraced rapid, transformational change while stripping their workers of rights and enriching themselves beyond anybody’s wildest imagination; and the Space Barons, who mine new frontiers for precious resources.

Free Download Sean H. Vanatta, Stephen R. Thorne (Narrator), "Plastic Capitalism: Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control"
English | ASIN: B0CZYK1LCH | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~16:36:00 | 456 MB
American households are awash in expensive credit card debt. But where did all this debt come from? In this history of the rise of postwar American finance, Sean H. Vanatta shows how bankers created our credit card economy and, with it, the indebted nation we know today.
America’s consumer debt machine was not inevitable. In the years after World War II, state and federal regulations ensured that many Americans enjoyed safe banks and inexpensive credit. Bankers, though, grew restless amid restrictive rules that made profits scarce. They experimented with new services and new technologies. They settled on credit cards, and in the 1960s mailed out reams of high-interest plastic to build a debt industry from scratch.
In the 1960s and 70s consumers fought back, using federal and state policy to make credit cards safer and more affordable. But bankers found ways to work around local rules. Beginning in 1980, Citibank and its peers relocated their card plans to South Dakota and Delaware, states with the weakest consumer regulations, creating "on-shore" financial havens and drawing consumers into an exploitative credit economy over which they had little control. We live in the world these bankers made.

Free Download Werner Sombart and the ‘Spirit’ of Modern Capitalism: Rediscovering a Classic
by Christopher Adair-Toteff
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031544226 | 180 Pages | True PDF | 4 MB

Free Download Christopher Adair-Toteff, "Werner Sombart and the ‘Spirit’ of Modern Capitalism: Rediscovering a Classic "
English | ISBN: 3031544226 | 2024 | 183 pages | EPUB | 489 KB
This book illuminates the work of Werner Sombart, a key contemporary of Max Weber, showing how his writing and thinking laid the groundwork for concepts of modern capitalism.

Free Download M. Keith Booker, "Ulysses, Capitalism, and Colonialism: Reading Joyce After the Cold War "
English | 2000 | ISBN: 0313312435 | PDF | pages: 240 | 13.6 mb
The work of James Joyce, especially Ulysses, can be fully understood only when the colonial and postcolonial context of Joyce’s Ireland is taken into account. Reading Joyce as a postcolonial writer produces valuable new insights into his work, though comparisons of Joyce’s work with that of African and Caribbean postcolonial writers provides reminders that Joyce, regardless of his postcolonial status, remains a fundamentally European writer whose perspective differs substantially from that of most other postcolonial writers. In addition to exploring Joyce’s writings in light of recent developments in postcolonial theory, Booker employs a Marxist critical approach to assess the political implications of Joyce’s work and examines the influence of Cold War anticommunism on previous readings of Joyce in the West.

Free Download The Transition to Capitalism in Modern France: Primitive Accumulation and Markets from the Old Regime to the post-WWII Era
by Xavier Lafrance and Stephen Miller
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0367553007 | 237 Pages | True PDF | 5.68 MB

Free Download Xavier Lafrance, "The Transition to Capitalism in Modern France "
English | ISBN: 0367553007 | 2023 | 236 pages | EPUB | 1089 KB
Historians, since the 1960s, argue that the French economy performed as well as did any economy in Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries thanks to the opportunities for profit available on the market, especially the large consumer market in Paris. Whatever economic weaknesses existed did not stem from the social structure but from exogenous forces such as wars, the lack of natural resources or slow demographic growth.

Free Download The Paradox of Intellectual Property in Capitalism
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031499662 | 294 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2.2 MB
The Paradox of Intellectual Property in Capitalism is an innovative book that comprehensively discusses and analyses intellectual property under capitalistic social conditions and relations. It not only addresses some historical developments of intellectual property but also brings to the fore the very notion of what knowledge is, knowledge creation, and knowledge production and appropriation within a Marxist framework. Nonetheless, the adopted approach pays heed to multiple fields of knowledge, providing rich discussions that facilitate the understanding of actual social totality in which capitalism, knowledge production and appropriation, and the struggles of appropriation mutually reinforce each other, although not devoid of antagonisms and contradictions.

Free Download The Idea of Capitalism Before the Industrial Revolution By Richard Grassby
1999 | 112 Pages | ISBN: 0847696324 | EPUB | 1 MB
Invented in post-industrial 19th century Europe, the idea of capitalism originally sought to describe and explain the distinctive characteristics of an emerging modern world. Since then, capitalism has served to identify an economic system, a particular social structure, and a set of cultural values and mental attitudes. The subject of continuous debate among scholars for more than a century, capitalism has been accorded so many definitions, it is now virtually meaningless. Depending upon the interpreter, capitalism is synonymous with the market economy, the division of labor, credit creation, economic concentration, social polarization, class formation, the decline of kinship and community, patriarchy, property rights, contracts, acquisitiveness, the work ethic, conspicuous consumption, individualism and entrepreneurship.Noted economic historian Richard Grassby investigates the origins and evolution of the idea of capitalism to illustrate for readers the true nature, merits, and the future of capitalism. Grassby examines its numerous and often conflicting definitions, and he tests alternative models of capitalism against the historical record to establish when, where, how, and why modern economies and societies emerged. Although Grassby argues that capitalism is a concept with diminished explanatory power, he shows the influence of this powerful idea on the formation of the world we live in. This is required reading for classes on World history, modern European history, and economic history.

Free Download Raghuram G. Rajan, "Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists: Unleashing the Power of Financial Markets to Create Wealth and Spread Opportunity"
English | 2004 | pages: 392 | ISBN: 0691121281, 0609610708 | EPUB | 0,7 mb
Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists is a groundbreaking book that will radically change our understanding of the capitalist system, particularly the role of financial markets. They are the catalyst for inspiring human ingenuity and spreading prosperity. The perception of many, especially in the wake of never-ending corporate scandals, is that financial markets are parasitic institutions that feed off the blood, sweat, and tears of the rest of us. The reality is far different.