Capitalism and Its Critics
Named a Top 10 Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly and a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post Now with an updated final chapter Capitalism has long been understood as a driving force behind the biggest political, economic, and social dislocations of our time. But in this sweeping, kaleidoscopic history of the economic system that has shaped our world, the New Yorker writer John Cassidy adopts a bold new approach: he examines global capitalism through the eyes of its critics. From the English Luddites to early-twentieth-century communists in Germany and Russia, Latin American dependistas, the international Wages for Housework campaign of the 1970s, and the modern degrowth movement,