People's Guide to Capitalism

300 pages

English language

Published 2020 by Haymarket Books.

ISBN:: 978-1-64259-169-9

(4 reviews)

Economists regularly promote Capitalism as the greatest system ever to grace the planet. With the same breath, they implore us to leave the job of understanding the magical powers of the market to the “experts.”

Despite the efforts of these mainstream commentators to convince us otherwise, many of us have begun to question why this system has produced such vast inequality and wanton disregard for its own environmental destruction. This book offers answers to exactly these questions on their own terms: in the form of a radical economic theory.

3 editions

Mark reviewed A People's Guide to Capitalism by Hadas Thier

A good introduction

4 stars

I thought this book was a good introduction to Marxist economics with a focus on the Great Recession as a source for examples. I'm pretty new to socialist capital T Theory and having bounced off of Capital a couple of times, was looking for something a littler more straight forward. This fit the bill nicely. I'm sure that people already intimately familiar with Marx's work will find this pretty simplistic (and it probably is) but even for them, the focus on modern examples could be interesting.