The Invisible Handcuffs of Capitalism: How Market Tyranny Stifles the Economy by Stunting Workers

by Michael Perelman

Book Overview

Mainstream, or more formally, neoclassical, economics claims to be a science. But as Michael Perelman makes clear in his latest book, nothing could be further from the truth. While a science must be rooted in material reality, mainstream economics ignores or distorts the most fundamental aspect of this reality: that the vast majority of people must, out of necessity, labor on behalf of others, transformed into nothing but a means to the end of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158367229X
• ISBN13: 9781583672297
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Monthly Review Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.2"