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Is Capitalism Broken? (Paperback)
Yanis Varoufakis, Arthur Brooks, Katrina Vanden Heuvel, David Brooks
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Discovery Miles 1 500
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'We need to organise politically to defend the weak, empower the
many and prepare the ground for reversing the absurdities of
capitalism.' - Yanis Varoufakis 'Capitalism over the past
twenty-five years has been an incredible moral good.' - David
Brooks The Munk debate on capitalism There is a growing belief that
the capitalist system no longer works. Inequality is rampant. The
environment is being destroyed for profits. In some western
nations, life expectancy is even falling. Political power is
wielded by wealthy elites and big business, not the people. But for
proponents of capitalism, it is the engine of progress, not just
making all of us materially better off, but helping to address
everything from women's rights to political freedoms. We seem to
stand at a crossroads: do we need to fix the system as a matter of
urgency, or would it be better to hold our nerve?
The twenty-fifth semi-annual Munk Debate, held on December 4, 2019,
pits editorial director and publisher of the Nation Katrina vanden
Heuvel and former finance minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis
against Harvard professor Arthur Brooks and New York Times
columnist David Brooks to debate whether the capitalist system is
broken. "We need to organise politically to defend the weak,
empower the many, and prepare the ground for reversing the
absurdities of capitalism." -- Yanis Varoufakis In Western
societies, the capitalist system is facing a level of distrust not
seen in decades. Economic inequality is rampant. Life expectancy is
falling. The environment is being destroyed for profit. Political
power is wielded by wealthy elites and big business. For
capitalism's critics, it is clear that the system is not designed
to help average people. Their solution is a top-to-bottom reform of
the "free market" along more socialist and democratic lines. For
proponents of capitalism, however, this system has been the
greatest engine of economic and social progress in history. Not
only has capitalism made all of us materially better off, its
ideals are responsible for everything from women's rights to a
cleaner environment to political freedoms. The answer to society's
current ills is more capitalism, more economic freedom, and more
free markets. The twenty-fifth semi-annual Munk Debate, held on
December 4, 2019, pits editorial director and publisher of the
Nation Katrina vanden Heuvel and former finance minister of Greece
Yanis Varoufakis against Harvard professor Arthur Brooks and New
York Times columnist David Brooks to debate whether the capitalist
system is broken.
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Matteo Bandello, Arthur Brooke, Luigi Da Porto
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R661
Discovery Miles 6 610
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We all know we should give to charity, but who really does? In his
controversial study of America's giving habits, Arthur C. Brooks
shatters stereotypes about charity in America-including the myth
that the political Left is more compassionate than the Right.
Brooks, a preeminent public policy expert, spent years researching
giving trends in America, and even he was surprised by what he
found. In "Who Really Cares," he identifies the forces behind
American charity: strong families, church attendance, earning one's
own income (as opposed to receiving welfare), and the belief that
individuals-not government-offer the best solution to social ills.
But beyond just showing us who the givers and non-givers in America
really are today, Brooks shows that giving is crucial to our
economic prosperity, as well as to our happiness, health, and our
ability to govern ourselves as a free people.
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