23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
Автор:
Chang Ha-JoonЖанр:
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2013-11-28Язык книги:
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From Publishers Weekly Chang (Bad Samaritans) takes on the 'free-market ideologues,' the stentorian voices in economic thought and, in his analysis, the engineers of the recent financial catastrophe. Free market orthodoxy has inserted its tenterhooks into almost every economy in the world–over the past three decades, most countries have privatized state-owned industrial and financial firms, deregulated finance and industry, liberalized international trade and investments, and reduced income taxes and welfare payments. But these policies have unleashed bubbles and ever increasing income disparity. How can we dig ourselves out? By examining the many myths in the narrative of free-market liberalism, crucially that the name is itself a misnomer: there is nothing 'free' about a market...
