Tag: Capitalism

Free Download Mark Tilzey, "Peasants, Capitalism, and Imperialism in an Age of Politico-Ecological Crisis "
English | ISBN: 1032508442 | 2023 | 358 pages | EPUB, PDF | 787 KB + 7 MB
This book utilises a new theoretical approach to understand the dynamics of the peasantry, and peasant resistance, in relation to capitalism, state, class, and imperialism in the global South.

Free Download Not Your Father’s Capitalism: What Race Equity Asks of U.S. Business Leaders by Adriane Johnson-Williams
English | May 23, 2023 | ISBN: 1642253235 | 176 pages | PDF | 3.86 Mb
EVER SINCE THE UPRISINGS OF 2020, consumers and employees alike have demanded more accountability from US business leaders. As a leadership coach, author Dr. Adriane Johnson – Williams noted the increasing volume of demands but saw no guidance out in the world that makes the work of organizational change for equity clear. That’s when she decided to write this book.

Free Download Jean-Paul Baldacchino, "Morality, Crisis and Capitalism: Anthropology for Troubled Times "
English | ISBN: 1800736118 | 2022 | 204 pages | PDF | 2 MB
‘May you live in interesting times’ was made famous by Sir Austen Chamberlain. The premise is that ‘interesting times’ are times of upheaval, conflict and insecurity – troubled times. With the growing numbers of displaced populations and the rise in the politics of fear and hate, we are facing challenges to our very ‘species-being’. Papers in the volume include ethnographic studies on the ‘refugee crisis’, the ‘financial crisis’ and the ‘rule of law crisis’ in the Mediterranean as well as the crisis of violence and hunger in South America.

Free Download Marx’s concept of the alternative to capitalism By Marx, Karl; Marx, Karl; Hudis, Peter
2012 | 241 Pages | ISBN: 9004221972 | PDF | 2 MB
In contrast to the traditional view that Marx’s work is restricted to a critique of capitalism – and that he consciously avoided any detailed conception of its alternative – this work shows that Marx was committed to a specific concept of a post-capitalist society which informed the whole of his approach to political economy.

Free Download Rob Noonan, "Capitalism, Health and Wellbeing: Rethinking Economic Growth for a Healthier, Sustainable Future"
English | ISBN: 1837978980 | 2024 | 260 pages | EPUB, PDF | 560 KB + 2 MB
Health inequalities are widening, and crises of obesity, physical inactivity and mental health are worsening around the world. Yet there remains a reluctance to discuss the threat capitalism poses to health and wellbeing. Offering a unique contribution to the field, Capitalism, Health and Wellbeing: Rethinking Economic Growth for a Healthier, Sustainable Future addresses the elephant in the room: economic growth.

Free Download Luigino Bruni, "Capitalism and Christianity "
English | ISBN: 1032524014 | 2023 | 122 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Drawing on debates about the religious nature and origins of contemporary European capitalism, this book argues for a distinction between a Northern/Protestant and a Southern/Catholic spirit of capitalism. The first part of the book explores the history of the relationship between capitalism and Christianity. Going back much further than Weber’s "protestant ethic" arguments, it looks at the early centuries of Christianity from the gospels to Augustine and follows the story through the Middle Ages – with special attention devoted to the role of Monasticism and Franciscanism – to modernity. The second part of the book analyses the origin of the "southern spirit of capitalism: before and after Luther and the Calvinist Reformation. It highlights the key features which demonstrate that the Catholic spirit of capitalism is, in fact, different from the Anglo-Saxon spirit. This book will be of interest to readers in history of economic thought, history of capitalism, economic ethics and religious history.

Free Download Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It by Joshua Dávila
English | August 8, 2023 | ISBN: 1914420853 | 344 pages | PDF | 4.37 Mb
Blockchain Radicals uncovers the radical political potential of the blockchain, showing how it can be used by the left in the fight against capitalism.

Free Download Joshua Dávila, Jonathan Todd Ross (Narrator), "Blockchain Radicals: How Capitalism Ruined Crypto and How to Fix It"
English | ASIN: B0CSMDJ8D3 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~11:17:00 | 310 MB
Blockchain Radicals uncovers the radical political potential of the blockchain, showing how it can be used by the left in the fight against capitalism.
Over the last decade, blockchains and crypto have opened up a new terrain for political action. It is not surprising, however, that the crypto space has also become overrun by unscrupulous marketing, theft, and scams. The problem is real, but it isn’t a new one. Capitalism has ruined crypto, but that shouldn’t be the end of it.
Blockchain Radicals shows us how this has happened, and how to fix crypto in a way that is understandable for those who have never owned a cryptocurrency as well as those who are building their own decentralized applications. Covering everything from how Bitcoin saved WikiLeaks to decentralized finance, worker cooperatives, the environmental impact of Bitcoin and NFTs, and the crypto commons, it shows how these new tools can be used to challenge capitalism and build a better world for all of us.

Free Download Janos Kornai, "From Socialism to Capitalism"
English | 2008 | pages: 256 | ISBN: 9633860016, 9639776165 | PDF | 1,2 mb
Eight essays connected by various common strands. The most important one is the community of the main subject-matter: socialism, capitalism, democracy, change of system. These four expressions cover four phenomena of great and comprehensive importance. Each piece in the book deals with these and the connections between them.

Free Download Daniil Frolov, "Digital Capitalism and New Institutionalism "
English | ISBN: 1032212365 | 2023 | 240 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1309 KB + 5 MB
Modern institutional economics was created to study the institutions of pre-digital economies and is based on reductionist approaches. But digital capitalism is producing institutions of unprecedented complexity. This book argues, therefore, that not only the economic institutions themselves but also the theoretical foundations for studying those institutions must now be adapted to digital capitalism. The book focuses on the institutional complexity of digital capitalism, developing an interdisciplinary framework which brings together cutting-edge theoretical approaches from philosophy (first of all, object-oriented ontology), sociology (especially actor-network theory), evolutionary biology, and cognitive science. In particular, the book outlines a new approach to the study of institutional evolution, based on extended evolutionary synthesis – a new paradigm in evolutionary biology, which is now replacing neo-Darwinism. The book develops an enactivist notion of extended cognition and cognitive institutions, rejecting the individualistic and mechanistic understanding of economic rationality in digital environments. The author experiments with new philosophical approaches to investigate institutional complexity, for example, the ideas of the flat ontology and the assemblage theory. The flat ontology approach is applied to the study of human-robot institutions, as well as to thinking about post-anthropocentric institutional design. Assemblage thinking allows for a new (much less idealistic) look at blockchain and smart cities. Blockchain as digital institutional technology is considered in the book not from the viewpoint of minimizing transaction costs (as is customary in the modern institutional economics), but by using the theory of transaction value which focuses on improving the quality of digital transactions. The book includes a wide range of examples ranging from metaverses, cryptocurrencies, and big data to robot rules, smart contracts, and machine learning algorithms. Written for researchers in institutional economics and other social sciences, this interdisciplinary book is essential reading for anyone interested in the interplay of institutional and digital change.