Capitalism and Its Critics A Battle of Ideas in the Modern World

Capitalism and Its Critics is everything we've come to expect from John Cassidy. He weaves an engaging and trenchant discussion of key critics of capitalism over its more than two hundred years into a history of capitalism itself. The battle is not only about economic ideas, but also about the VERY nature of our society. Especially now, when some see the failures of capitalism as more than a little responsible for the Trumpian oligarchy while others see its successes as ushering in a new era of AI-led prosperity, this is an illuminating and essential read Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences and author of The Road to Freedom