Bøger af Grace Blakeley

A readable polemic on the growing dominance of the finance industry over the UK economy, and what the left can do to challenge it.

Free market, competitive capitalism is dead. The separation between politics and economics can no longer be sustained.

Denne bog vender op og ned på alt, hvad du ved om kapitalisme. At vestens velstand beror på kapitalismens frie markeder for eksempel. Grace Blakeley tager verdens mest magtfulde virksomheder under kærlig behandling og viser, at Boeing, Amazon og hele den amerikanske bilindustri opererer under alt andet end frie markedskræfter. De er tværtimod godt og grundigt viklet ind i statsapparaternes økonomi. Det kunne jo minde lidt om den regulerede økonomi, vi kender fra socialistiske stater – forskellen er blot, at det ikke er de mennesker, der arbejder for de store virksomheder, der nyder godt af statens beskyttende hånd, men selve virksomhederne og deres aktionærer. Rovdyr kapitalisme er et manifest til vores senkapitalistiske tidsalder fra én af de skarpeste intellektuelle i en ny generation af økonomiske tænkere.Grace Blakeley (f. 1993, Storbritannien) er økonom, aktivist og politisk kommentator, uddannet fra Oxford University. Hun er skribent på Tribune Magazine og forfatter til bøgerne Stolen (2019) og The Corona Crash (2020). Og så bidrager hun til at udvikle Labour-partiets politiske linje som del af The National Policy Forum.

"It's easy to look at the state of the world around us and feel hopeless. We live in an era marked by war, climate crisis, political polarization, and acute inequality-and yet many of us feel powerless to do anything about these profound issues. We've been assured that unfettered capitalism is necessary to ensure our freedom and prosperity, even as we see its corrosive effects proliferating daily. Why, in our age of unchecked corporate power, are most of us living paycheck to paycheck? When the economy falters, why do governments bail out corporations and shareholders but leave everyday people in the dust? Now, economic and political journalist and progressive star on the rise Grace Blakeley exposes the corrupt system that is failing all around us, pulling back the curtain on the free market mythology we have been sold, and showing how, as corporate interests have taken hold, governments have historically been shifting away from competition and democracy and towards monopoly and oligarchy. Tracing over a century of neoliberal planning and backdoor bailouts, Blakeley takes us on a deeply reported tour of the corporate crimes, political maneuvering, and economic manipulation that elites have used to enshrine a global system of "vulture capitalism"-planned capitalist economies that benefit corporations and the uber-wealthy at the expense of the rest of us-at every level, from states to empires. Blakeley exposes the cracks already emerging within capitalism, lighting a path forward for how we can democratize our economy, not just our politics, to ensure true freedom for all"--]cProvided by publisher.