Vulture capitalism : corporate crimes, backdoor bailouts, and the death of freedom / Grace Blakeley.
By: Blakeley, Grace [author.]
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BookPublisher: New York : Atria Books, 2024Copyright date: ©2024Description: viii, 394 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781526638076 (hardcover).Subject(s): Capitalism -- Moral and ethical aspects | Corporations -- Corrupt practices | Income distribution | Bailouts (Government policy) | Social responsibility of businessDDC classification: 364.168 BLA | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Kerry North Campus Library First Floor Main | 364.168 BLA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | CULT 61000 Essential Reading | 38888000945737 | |
| General lending | MTU Kerry North Campus Library First Floor Main | 364.168 BLA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | CULT 61000 Essential Reading | 38888000945745 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
*A Foyles Top 10 Read for March and one of Glamour's Best Books of March*
Longlisted for the inaugural Women's Prize for Non-Fiction
'A galvanising takedown of neoliberalism's "free market" logic, one rooted in as much history as it is in current events' NAOMI KLEIN
'A must-read for anyone keen to put the demos back in democracy' YANIS VAROUFAKIS
Everything you know about capitalism is wrong.
Free markets aren't really free. Record corporate profits don't trickle down to everyone else. And we aren't empowered to make our own choices - they're made for us every day.
In Vulture Capitalism , acclaimed journalist Grace Blakeley takes on the world's most powerful corporations by showing how the causes of our modern crisis are the intended result of our capitalist system. It's not broken, it's working exactly as planned. From JPMorgan to Boeing, Henry Ford to Richard Nixon, Blakeley shows us exactly where late-stage capitalism has gone wrong.
Searing, explosive and timely , Vulture Capitalism is the book you need to understand what is happening in the world around you - and what you can do to change it.
'Read this book if you want to make fundamental changes to the world' HA-JOON CHANG
'If you've ever wondered why you (and everyone you know) feel so out of control of the world around you, this book will give you the answer' ASH SARKAR
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-341) and index.
How to get away with murder -- The United States of Fordlandia -- Disaster capitalism -- American-made sweatshops: how big business plans -- Buying time: how big banks plan -- Capital's cronies: how states plan -- Money at six percent: how empires plan -- The architect and the bee: how to plan democratically -- Taking back control: democratic planning at scale.
"In the vein of The Shock Doctrine and Evil Geniuses, this timely manifesto from an acclaimed journalist illustrates how corporate and political elites have used planned capitalism to advance their own interests at the expense of the rest of us-and how we can take back our economy for all. It's easy to look at the state of the world around us and feel hopeless. We live in an era marked by war, climate crisis, political polarization, and acute inequality-and yet many of us feel powerless to do anything about these profound issues. We've been assured that unfettered capitalism is necessary to ensure our freedom and prosperity, even as we see its corrosive effects proliferating daily. Why, in our age of unchecked corporate power, are most of us living paycheck to paycheck? When the economy falters, why do governments bail out corporations and shareholders but leave everyday people in the dust? Now, economic and political journalist and progressive star on the rise Grace Blakeley exposes the corrupt system that is failing all around us, pulling back the curtain on the free market mythology we have been sold, and showing how, as corporate interests have taken hold, governments have historically been shifting away from competition and democracy and towards monopoly and oligarchy. Tracing over a century of neoliberal planning and backdoor bailouts, Blakeley takes us on a deeply reported tour of the corporate crimes, political maneuvering, and economic manipulation that elites have used to enshrine a global system of "vulture capitalism"-planned capitalist economies that benefit corporations and the uber-wealthy at the expense of the rest of us-at every level, from states to empires. Blakeley exposes the cracks already emerging within capitalism, lighting a path forward for how we can democratize our economy, not just our politics, to ensure true freedom for all"-- Provided by publisher.
MTU Kerry Module CULT 61000 - Essential Reading