How capitalism destroyed itself technology displaced by financial innovation

Capitalism has been sustained by inherited moral values that are now all but exhausted. A unique combination of a new belief in individualism and a long tradition of property rights had traditionally ensured that self-interested action also produced public benefit. However, these rights, including t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kingston, William
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Northampton, MA Edward Elgar Pub. 2017, 2017
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Collection: Edward Elgar eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 1. What capitalism was
  • 2. Where capitalism came from
  • 3. The capture of market power
  • 4. The fatal capture of money
  • 5. Could anything have saved it?
  • Epilogue: the centre could not hold
  • Index