Capitalism and Its Critics

by John Cassidy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Nonfiction

This rigorous survey of economic history was conceived as a primer and a response to a rising discontentment with capitalism in America and elsewhere. By cataloguing capitalism’s critics—interpreted broadly to include everyone from the Luddites to Karl Marx to dependency theorists—Cassidy, a staff writer at the magazine, documents watershed moments in our past, allowing readers to imagine alternatives. An excerpt appeared in the magazine.

From The New Yorker