23 things they don't tell you about capitalism /
Challenges popular misconceptions while making startling revelations about free-market practices, explaining the author's views on global capitalism dynamics while making recommendations for reshaping capitalism to humane ends.
| Основен автор: | Chang, Ha-Joon. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
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New York :
Bloomsbury Press,
2011.
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Съдържание:
- There is no such thing as a free market
- Companies should not be run in the interest of their owners
- Most people in rich countries are paid more than they should be
- The washing machine has changed the World more than the Internet has
- Assume the worst about people and you get the worst
- Greater macroeconomic stability has not made the world economy more stable
- Free-market policies rarely make poor countries rich
- Capital has a nationality
- We do not live in a post-industrial age
- The US does not have the highest living standard in the world
- Africa is not destined for underdevelopment
- Governments can pick winners
- Making rich people richer doesn't make the rest of us richer
- US managers are over-priced
- People in poor countries are more entrepreneurial than people in rich countries
- We are not smart enough to leave things to the market
- More education in itself is not going to make a country richer
- What is good for General Motors is not necessarily good for the United States
- Despite the fall of communism, we are still living in planned economies
- Equality of opportunity may not be fair
- Big government makes people more open to change
- Financial markets need to become less, not more, efficient
- Good economic policy does not require good economists
- Conclusion: How to rebuild the world economy.