Consequences of Capitalism by Noam Chomsky - ISBN: 9780241482612
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Capitalism’s hidden costs revealed: can we build a just future?

Consequences of Capitalism

Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance

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    416 pages

  • Release Date

    5 January 2021

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Summary

An essential primer on capitalism, politics, and how the world works, based on the hugely popular undergraduate lecture series ‘What is Politics?’

Is there an alternative to capitalism? In this landmark text, Chomsky and Waterstone chart a critical map for a more just and sustainable society.

“Covid-19 has revealed glaring failures and monstrous brutalities in the current capitalist system. It represents both a crisis and an opportunity. Everything depends on the actions that …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241482612
ISBN-10:0241482615
Author:Noam Chomsky, Marv Waterstone
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Hamish Hamilton Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:416
Release Date:5 January 2021
Weight:537g
Dimensions:234mm x 153mm x 29mm
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Critics Review

Noam Chomsky is indispensable. Just as it is impossible to imagine appreciating the dramatic arts without learning Shakespeare, or loving jazz trumpet without an appreciation of Louis Armstrong, it is inconceivable that one might study contemporary political thought without reading Chomsky * Los Angeles Review of Books *

About The Author

Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky is the bestselling author of over 100 influential political books, including Hegemony or Survival, Imperial Ambitions, Failed States, Interventions, What We Say Goes, Hopes and Prospects, Making the Future, On Anarchism, Masters of Mankind and Who Rules the World. He has also been the subject of numerous books of biography and interviews and has collaborated with journalists on books such as Perilous Power, Gaza in Crisis, and On Palestine. Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor (emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Laureate Professor of Linguistics and Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in the Program in Environment and Social Justice at the University of Arizona.

Marvin Waterstone is Professor Emeritus in the School of Geography and Development at the University of Arizona, where he has been a faculty member for over 30 years. He is also the former director of the University of Arizona Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies. His research and teaching focus on the Gramscian notions of hegemony and common sense, and their connections to social justice and progressive social change. His most recent books are Wageless Life (co-authored with Ian Shaw) and Geographic Thought (co-edited with George Henderson).

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