On Capitalism and Inequality: Progress and Poverty Revisited

by Ayres

Capitalism is under attack. Defenders say that capitalism has raised billions of people from poverty. But a central activity of capitalism today, Wall Street style, is speculation (gambling), using other people's money, and privatizing the profits while socializing the debts. Skeptics argue that capitalism has redistributed the wealth of the planet in favor of a very few, meanwhile leaving the planet in bad shape and leaving billions of people...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030396509
• ISBN13: 9783030396503
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"