Capitalism cares about our species’ prospects as much as a wolf cares about a lamb’s. But democratise our economy and a better world is within our grasp
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Capitalism has already ended and we don’t even know it, Yanis Varoufakis warns ○
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Speaking to Euronews after his panel at Web Summit Qatar, the former Greek finance minister said the world could be heading toward another crisis like 2008, driven by the rise of stablecoins and powe…
66 days ago
Capitalism by Sven Beckert review – an extraordinary history of the economic system that controls our lives ⊕
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
The Harvard professor provides a ceaseless flow of startling details in this exhaustively researched, 1000-year account
In the early 17th century, the Peruvian city of Potosí billed itself as the “tr…
3 months ago
How Amazon turned our capitalist era of free markets into the age of technofeudalism | Yanis Varoufakis ⊕
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Amazon Web Services owns the basic infrastructure for other businesses to operate online, turning even governments into its serfs. But now some people are fighting back
For the past six years, every B…
4 months ago
The Temu theory of populism ⊖
Capitalism has set expectations of choice and convenience that no state can match
Why can’t I buy a small smartphone? ○
Capitalism is not giving me what I want, but I’m not behaving like a good free market consumer myself
7 months ago
In an age of failing economies and a populist backlash, I’ll tell you what we need – Marxism | Yanis Varoufakis ○
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
To free ourselves from our technofeudal overlords, we must think like Karl Marx. The corporations would asset-strip our brains, but we can take back control
A young woman I met recently remarked that …
9 months ago
Capitalism and Its Critics by John Cassidy review – brilliant primer on leftwing economics ○
From Marx to Piketty, a sprawling but marvellously lucid overview of capitalism’s naysayers
Capitalism has a way of confounding its critics. Like one of those fairground punching bags, it pops right b…
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