Capitalism and Its Alternatives

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The Global Economic Crisis has catalysed debates about the merits of capitalism as a system for organising production, distribution, and exchange. Capitalism, political elites have argued, is not a fundamentally pernicious or crisis prone system, and can be successfully reformed if the right set of policies are found. Conversely, groups such as Occupy have argued a wholesale change of attitude towards the status and creation of wealth in contemporary society is required if crises of this kind are to be prevented in the future.

In Capitalism and Its Alternatives, Chris Rogers provides a critical introduction to theories of capitalism, the forms of its crises in historical and contemporary contexts, as well as reflecting on the practice of anti-capitalism and the ways that economic and social relations can be shaped in a period of globalisation. Crucially, the book puts forward two key questions: What alternatives to capitalism exist? And by what processes and through what institutions might they be achieved?