Wealth Supremacy
How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today's Crises
Published on 12. September 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-5230-0477-5 (ISBN)
Description
"Author of The Divine Right of Capital exposes the myths of capitalism today and calls for an end to wealth supremacy and capital bias. Wealth Supremacy makes a case that no one else is making: instead of pointing to billionaires as the sole problem or being another analysis of wealth inequality, it clearly articulates the pervasive, unnamed bias toward wealth that invisibly pervades the system. We know the system is rigged-what isn't commonly understood is how. Marjorie Kelly skillfully reveals how bias toward capital works, breaking down the pretenses that legitimize and obscure the deep operating system that drives large corporations and extractive investing"--
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 149 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
360 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5230-0477-5 (9781523004775)
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Persons
Marjorie Kelly is Distinguished Senior Fellow at The Democracy Collaborative, a national R&D lab for a democratic economy. She was named by Fast Company as one of “15 people at the forefront of reinventing our economic system.” Her classic book, The Divine Right of Capital, is credited by Jay Coen Gilbert, B Lab co-founder, as having “inspired the B Corp movement.” Her subsequent books, Owning Our Future and The Making of a Democratic Economy, won awards and acclaim. Formerly, Marjorie was a fellow at Tellus Institute, where she cofounded Corporation 20/20, after co-founding and editing Business Ethics magazine.