What is this nonsense? Understanding modern capitalism

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21 participants (18 books)

Overview

I have a lot of books about capitalism in all its guises and a desire to get to them all, so here we go. Join me if you're interested in approaching this beefy topic with a new lens.

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Necropolitics by Achille Mbembe

Necropolitics

Achille Mbembe

224 pages • hardcover • 2016

nonfiction philosophy politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Capital Volume III: The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole by Karl Marx

Capital Volume III: The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole

Capital #3

Karl Marx

1152 pages • paperback • 1894

nonfiction economics philosophy politics challenging informative slow-paced
Capital Volume II: The Process of Circulation of Capital by Karl Marx

Capital Volume II: The Process of Circulation of Capital

Capital #2

Karl Marx

624 pages • paperback • 1885

nonfiction economics philosophy politics informative slow-paced
Capital Volume I: The Process of Production of Capital by Karl Marx

Capital Volume I: The Process of Production of Capital

Capital #1

Karl Marx

1141 pages • paperback • 1867

nonfiction economics philosophy politics challenging informative slow-paced
Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea by Darrin M. McMahon

Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea

Darrin M. McMahon

528 pages • hardcover

nonfiction
The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism by Clara E. Mattei

The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism

Clara E. Mattei

480 pages • hardcover • 2022

nonfiction economics politics challenging informative medium-paced
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Siddharth Kara

288 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction business history politics emotional informative sad medium-paced
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Updated and Expanded) by David Graeber

Debt: The First 5,000 Years (Updated and Expanded)

David Graeber

542 pages • paperback • 2011

nonfiction economics history challenging informative slow-paced
Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind the Food That Isn't Food by Chris van Tulleken

Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind the Food That Isn't Food

Chris van Tulleken

376 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction food and drink health science informative medium-paced
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber

Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

David Graeber

333 pages • paperback • 2018

nonfiction business economics politics informative reflective medium-paced