The Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring on the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World
by Paul Gilding · 28 Mar 2011 · 337pp · 103,273 words
in the first month I was writing that the Dow soared from 11,800 back up to 13,000. Many saw this whole period as the triumph of globalized capitalism. The shakiness in the financial markets in 2007 and early 2008 was seen as a minor blip in an endless boom and an era of
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World
by Vincent Bevins · 18 May 2020 · 393pp · 115,178 words
Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact countries lost, and lost big. But what about their citizens, the regular, suffering peoples of the communist world? Did the triumph of global capitalism mean victory for them too? Were they rewarded with prosperity and democracy? Economist Branko Milanovic, one of the world’s foremost experts on global inequality
The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning
by Jeremy Lent · 22 May 2017 · 789pp · 207,744 words
the global rich and poor. As the twentieth century began, the richest countries in the world were about ten times wealthier than the poorest. With the triumph of global capitalism, the twenty-first century began with the richest countries seventy-one times wealthier than the poorest. The statistics describing the chasm between rich and poor
Barefoot Into Cyberspace: Adventures in Search of Techno-Utopia
by Becky Hogge, Damien Morris and Christopher Scally · 26 Jul 2011 · 171pp · 54,334 words
wealth into a structure which is immune, not totally but mostly, from political sanctions.” It seems to me that what Julian is talking about is the triumph of global capitalism over Western democracy, the slow-knit of the corporate ethos into civic life. “In the West,” he continues, “Perhaps speech is free because it actually