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Capitalism: A Broad Critical Approach
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1. The Fountainhead (Penguin Modern Classics) by Ayn Rand

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	"Nietzsche meets Adam Smith: a political novel on "objectivism," or laissaiz faire economics (or socialism for the rich)."

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2. Wealth of Nations: A Selected Edition (Oxford World's Classics) by Adam Smith

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	"The abridged version of the capitalist-utopian Wealth of Nations."

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3. Capital: An Abridged Edition (Oxford World's Classics) by Karl Marx

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	"Oft-forgotten and/or repressed: in Capital I Marx accepts all Smith's premises, he simply charts a very different route down which the hidden hand pushes us."

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4. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by John Maynard Keynes

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	"Capitalism has potential blockages: one is effective demand, that is, being able to sell commodities produced. From the 1920s-1930s this was the key problem: Keynes "solved" it."

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5. The Road to Serfdom (Routledge Classics) by F.A. Hayek

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	"Hayek asserts that central planning, as advocated by many labour movements, creates serfs. Of course large companies centrally plan too..."

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6. Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman

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	"Friedman's myths of rational consumers and the benefits of market forces in public (or common) concerns provides perfect Randian terrain."

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7. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Routledge Classics) by Max Weber

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	"A kind of idealist, or "mental conceptions" approach to capitalism."

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8. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

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	"Marx called it "primitive accumulation"; Klein calls it the shock doctrine: making money without creating value, neo-liberalism's speciality."

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9. Limits to Capital by David Harvey

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	"Far from vulgar economic determinism, Marx cited six semi-autonomous "variables" in capitalist society. Harvey runs with this elaborate model."

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10. The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy by Anthony Giddens

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	"Neither socialism, nor capitalism; except New Labour proved the "third way" was just capitalism with slightly sanded corners."

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11. The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time by Karl Polanyi

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	"How dropping the gold standard lead to the Great Depression. An interesting lesson post-Bretton Woods."

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12. Liquid Times: Living in an Age of Uncertainty by Zygmunt Bauman

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	"The increasing revolutionary and deconstructionary movement of capitalism linked to the increasing precariousness of everyday life. This is post-Fordism."

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13. The Revenge of Gaia (Penguin Celebrations) by James Lovelock

The list author says:
	"Another capitalist problem is limited planetary resources/space. Nobody has a solution, and Lovelock thinks the planet will probably begin fighting back (or at least equilibriating)."

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14. The Entropy Law and the Economic Process by Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen

The list author says:
	"Constant 3% compound per annum growth is one more problem for capital: how to do it in a finite world, and where to invest/absorb your new money? Proposal: "de-growth"."

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