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Rich rewards: the best books on how banking rules the world
From a psychological study of city bankers to the ‘delusion of thrift’ in John Lanchester’s novel Capital, Grace Blakeley shares her favourite titles on the power of banks
When the headline on the front page of the Financial Times declares capitalism needs a “reset”, there must be something wrong. But why has our economy become so rapacious and unsustainable?
Economist Gerald Epstein locates the bla
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“The greatest barrier to the emergence and spread of these movements is not the overwhelming power of capital. It is the conviction, held by millions of people, that change is impossible. The moment we let go of our collective belief in the inevitability of the current system is the moment we start to build a new one.”
― Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
― Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
“In a truly free-market society, pervasive private power of the kind exposed in the last several chapters should not exist. All capitalist institutions should be-to a greater or lesser extent-subject to the overwhelming power of the market mechanism. Instead, we find a world in which private institutions are able to dominate and control markets, while also dominating and controlling workers and manipulating entire states. Capitalism means rule by capital-not free markets.”
― Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
― Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
“If capitalism is not defined by the presence or absence of markets, but by the domination of society by capital, then socialism is not defined by the presence or absence of planning, but by the democratization of society. Rather than a system of top-down control, true democratic socialism would be a project of collective liberation, which would allow workers to take control over production and citizens to take control over government.”
― Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
― Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
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