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The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America—and How to Undo His Legacy
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than be slaves to market forces (Du Bois 1933b).
Jessica Gordon Nembhard • Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice
Marx...was among the very first to recognize that the fever-fits of financial crisis and depression that afflict modern market economies were not a passing phase or something that could be easily cured, but rather a deep disability of the system...
Noah Smith • Should economists read Marx?
In this process, Marx saw the seeds of a society that would eventually be reduced to two classes—owners and workers.
Matthew Wizinsky • Design after Capitalism: Transforming Design Today for an Equitable Tomorrow
Schumpeter agreed with Marx on two important points: that the ever-increasing efficiency of capitalist exploitation inevitably decreases the rate of profit, and that decreased rate of profit leads to monopolies.
Adrian Daub • What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley (FSG Originals x Logic)
Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class (Forerunners: Ideas First)
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A peak predator of capitalism is a system which produces some useful output at the lowest possible marginal cost.
Mike Goldin • Token-Curated Registries 1.0
when undertakings on the verge of bankruptcy, having sacked a host of workmen and working at a third or a quarter of their productive capacity, preserve almost intact a managerial staff composed of a few directors drawing fat fees and clerks who are ill-paid,