| Description |
xiv, 290 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. Winners and Losers -- 2. What is Turbo-Capitalism? -- 3. Glories and Downfalls of the Global Economy -- 4. The Microsoft Mirage -- 5. The Return of Poverty -- 6. The Era of Unemployment -- 7. The Theory and Practice of Geo-Economics -- 8. The Industrial Policy Debate -- 9. Turbo-Capitalism Comes to Russia -- 10. Free Trade as Ideology -- 11. Money as Religion -- 12. Shopping as Therapy -- 13. The Great Dilemma -- App. The Global Advance of Turbo-Capitalism |
| Summary |
"In this critical analysis of today's free-market capitalism, Edward Luttwak shows how it is vastly different from the controlled capitalism that flourished so successfully from 1945 to the 1980s. Turbo-capitalism is private enterprise liberated from government regulation, unchecked by effective trade unions, unfettered by concerns for employees or investment restrictions, and unhindered by taxation."--BOOK JACKET. "The winners - the architects and acrobats of techno-organizational change - become much richer; the losers, the majority, become relatively or absolutely poorer and are forced by downsizing to take the traditional jobs of the underclass, more and more of whom end up in prison."--BOOK JACKET |
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"Led by the United States, closely followed by Britain, turbo-capitalism is spreading fast throughout Europe, Asia, and the rest of the world (only in France and Japan is there any resistance) without the two great forces that check its enormous power in the United States: a powerful legal system and the stringent rules of American calvinism. Acknowledging the great efficiency of turbo-capitalism, Luttwak provides no solutions but describes in powerful detail the major societal upheavals and inequities it causes and the broad dissatisfaction and anxiety that may result."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
'Originally published in Great Britain in 1998 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson'--T.p. verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Capitalism -- Social aspects.
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Capitalism.
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Economic history -- 1990-
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Free enterprise -- Social aspects.
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Free enterprise.
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International economic integration.
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| LC no. |
99177816 |
| ISBN |
0060193301 |
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006093137X (paperback) |
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