Oops! Looks like we're having trouble connecting to our server.
Refresh your browser window to try again.
Acerca de este artículo
Product Identifiers
PublisherHunt Publishing The Limited, John
ISBN-101803410000
ISBN-139781803410005
eBay Product ID (ePID)19057262957
Product Key Features
Book TitleHow Capitalism Ends : History, Ideology and Progress
Number of Pages248 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2022
TopicCivilization, Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Economics / General, Political
IllustratorYes
GenrePolitical Science, Philosophy, Business & Economics, History
AuthorSteve Paxton
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight11.2 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2022-931596
Dewey Edition23/eng/20230106
Dewey Decimal330.12/2
SynopsisCapital's drive for profit has pushed technological development to previously unimagined heights, and now capitalist production is pushing progress in all the wrong directions., While the past 300 years have witnessed immense growth in productive capacity, the 'logic' of capitalist production is now pushing progress in all the wrong directions. We've passed the point where our biggest enemy is material scarcity. Our problems no longer revolve around insufficient production, but iniquitous distribution - and the fact that we're fast running out of planet - and these are problems that capitalism cannot solve. Taking in a diverse range of contemporary and historical evidence - from the Putney Debates of 1647 to Modern Monetary Theory, from John Locke to Thomas Piketty, from the Rights of Man to the rise of identity politics How Capitalism Ends navigates a path through current affairs, history, economics and philosophy and sets the scene for the conversation we, as a civilization, urgently need to begin...