Escape From Capitalism

Economics is presented as neutral and scientific, but here it is recast as a force that helps sustain capitalism and limit democratic choice. Key ideas such as growth, inflation, unemployment and balanced budgets are stripped of their authority and shown as instruments of market dependence.

The result is a forceful case against treating poverty and inequality as natural or unavoidable. Readers drawn to political economy, contemporary capitalism and arguments about economic power will find a sharp challenge to familiar orthodoxies and a call to imagine something different.