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The hour of capitalism's greatest triumph," writes Hernando de Soto, "is, in the eyes of four-fifths of humanity, its hour of crisis." In The Mystery of Capital, the world-famous Peruvian economist takes up the question that, more than any other, is central to one of the most crucial problems the world faces today: Why do some countries succeed at capitalism while others fail?In strong oppositi…
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Capitalism now reigns triumphantbut in the process has created dramatic inequalities of wealth and left many individuals feeling disconnected. Backed by enthusiastic support from a wide array of legislators, corporate leaders, Nobel laureates, environmentalists, and social and political activists, The Ownership Solution shows how to humanize and localize free enterprise by using ownership as …
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In The Zero Marginal Cost Society, New York Times bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin describes how the emerging Internet of Things is speeding us to an era of nearly free goods and services, precipitating the meteoric rise of a global Collaborative Commons and the eclipse of capitalism. Rifkin uncovers a paradox at the heart of capitalism that has propelled it to greatness but is now taking it…
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Reich sets out to compare the three decades after World War II with the recent decades noting that in that ?Not Quite Golden Age? the interests of business, labor, community, and government were generally in balance (the times were ?Not Quite Golden? as sizable segments of the population were excluded, namely minorities and women). This balance of capitalism and democracy, however, became unhin…
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Galbraith is witty, provocative, stimulating, intelligent, unorthodox, outspoken and eminently readable. He is also vague, repetitious, arrogant, mercenary, journalistic, dogmatic and an elitist snob. Above all he is important, challenging, controversial and confusing. The present book is intended as an attempt to make sense of the complexities of Galbraith's work and to provide a tentativ…