| Capitalism vs. Freedom: The Toll Road to Serfdom Contributor(s): Larson, Rob (Author) |
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ISBN: 1785357336 ISBN-13: 9781785357336 Publisher: Zero Books OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Free Enterprise & Capitalism - Political Science | Political Freedom - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism |
| Dewey: 306.342 |
| LCCN: 2017940002 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.5" (0.66 lbs) 248 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For years, we've been taught that capitalism is good for freedom. Dominant right-wing talk radio hosts to this day recommend "libertarian" classics like Hayek's Road to Serfdom and Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom that claim markets free us, and this picture still dominates the schools and the political spectrum. Well get bent, one percent, because Rob Larson's Capitalism vs. Freedom: The Toll Road to Serfdom puts big business under a microscope. This book debunks the conservative classics while demonstrating that the marketplace has its own great centers of power, which the libertarian tradition itself claims is a limit to freedom. In fact, Larson illustrates how capitalism fails both this and other concepts of human liberty--not just failing to establish a right to a share of society's production, but also leaving us subject to the great power plays of the one percent's corporate property. |