Grace Blakeley

Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom -- Grace Blakeley, Hardcover

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Longlisted for the 2024 Women's Prize for Nonfiction
A Next Big Idea Book Club Must-Read for March 2024

In the vein of The Shock Doctrine and Evil Geniuses, this timely manifesto from an acclaimed journalist illustrates how corporate and political power brokers have used planned capitalism to advance their own interests at the expense of the rest of us--and how we can take back our economy for all.

It's easy to look at the state of the world around us and feel hopeless. We live in an era marked by war, climate crisis, political polarization, and acute inequality--and yet many of us feel powerless to do anything about these profound issues. We've been assured that unfettered capitalism is necessary to ensure our freedom and prosperity, even as we see its corrosive effects proliferating daily. Why, in our age of unchecked corporate power, are most of us living paycheck to paycheck? When the economy falters, why do governments bail out corporations and shareholders but leave everyday people in the dust?

Now, economic and political journalist and progressive star on the rise Grace Blakeley exposes the corrupt system that is failing all around us, pulling back the curtain on the free market mythology we have been sold, and showing how, as corporate interests have taken hold, governments have historically been shifting away from competition and democracy and towards monopoly and oligarchy.

Tracing over a century of neoliberal planning and backdoor bailouts, Blakeley takes us on a deeply reported tour of the corporate crimes, political maneuvering, and economic manipulation that elites have used to enshrine a global system of "vulture capitalism"--planned capitalist economies that benefit corporations and the uber-wealthy at the expense of the rest of us--at every level, from states to empires. Blakeley exposes the cracks already emerging within capitalism, lighting a path forward for how we can democratize our economy, not just our politics, to ensure true freedom for all.

Author: Grace Blakeley
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 03/12/2024
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9781982180850

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/22/2024
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2024
Booklist 02/15/2024 pg. 10

About the Author
Grace Blakeley, one of the fiercest anti-capitalist advocates of her generation, is an author, journalist, and commentator. She attended University of Oxford where she graduated with a first-class honors degree in philosophy, economics, and politics and later obtained a masters in African studies. Her writing has appeared in Tribune and the New Statesman. She is the author of Stolen, The Corona Crash, and Vulture Capitalism, and edited Futures of Socialism. Find out more at GraceBlakeley.co.uk.

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Atria Books, Business & Economics, Business / Economics / Finance, Economic History, Free Enterprise & Capitalism, Grace Blakeley, Hardcover, Industries, Social responsibility of business

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