I am assuming that the video is similar to your review that I happily just read. I liked your analogies and overall take on the life and death of what I and many other neo-Marxist criminologists refer to as sustainable capitalism.
I have always enjoyed listening to folks interviewing you about economics, politics, and policy, but has not read anything by you until your review of Cassidy's Capitalism and Its Critics. Nice style and touch!
So as a criminologist, a political economist, and social historian -- I would say, Jared, say hello to a fellow traveler who would like to turn you on to or share with you two of my award winning books on these subject matters that I imagine you have not run across.
Theft of a Nation: Wall Street Looting and Federal Regulatory Colluding (2012) and Unchecked Corporate Power: Why the Crimes of Multinational Corporations are Routinized Away and What We Can Do About It (2017). Links below:
What about capitalism and living wages? Continue free market and growth, but share the wealth. Perhaps instead of the "owner" banking $50 million annual salary, $10 million might suffice? And the rest distributed into better salaries and working conditions.
That was great! Thanks for having an accessible yet well informed conversation between experts on the idea of capitalism. Paradigms are moving all around us and it is important to see the water that you are swimming in.
I’m reading “Less is More” by Jason Hickel. I’m recommending this book to everyone especially Jared. Jared has recently wrote about the stagnation of GDP and warning of its possible seriousness. I’m reading that GDP is also a marker for using the Earth’s resources and diminishing the health of the natural world. Hickel makes plausible arguments that the only fix for capitalism is an economic system that isn’t based on compounded growth which means more and more energy use and resource extraction. I can’t do the book justice here, but would be highly interested in Jared’s take. Interview Hickel or write a critique. I think it will make for a great discussion.
I am assuming that the video is similar to your review that I happily just read. I liked your analogies and overall take on the life and death of what I and many other neo-Marxist criminologists refer to as sustainable capitalism.
I have always enjoyed listening to folks interviewing you about economics, politics, and policy, but has not read anything by you until your review of Cassidy's Capitalism and Its Critics. Nice style and touch!
So as a criminologist, a political economist, and social historian -- I would say, Jared, say hello to a fellow traveler who would like to turn you on to or share with you two of my award winning books on these subject matters that I imagine you have not run across.
Theft of a Nation: Wall Street Looting and Federal Regulatory Colluding (2012) and Unchecked Corporate Power: Why the Crimes of Multinational Corporations are Routinized Away and What We Can Do About It (2017). Links below:
https://www.amazon.com/Theft-Nation-Looting-Regulatory-Colluding/dp/1442207795
https://www.amazon.com/Unchecked-Corporate-Power-Crimes-Powerful/dp/1138951447
What about capitalism and living wages? Continue free market and growth, but share the wealth. Perhaps instead of the "owner" banking $50 million annual salary, $10 million might suffice? And the rest distributed into better salaries and working conditions.
1. There's no such thing as a free market.
2. As to "living wages," I think we need to enact a maximum wage law for CEOs.
That was great! Thanks for having an accessible yet well informed conversation between experts on the idea of capitalism. Paradigms are moving all around us and it is important to see the water that you are swimming in.
I’m reading “Less is More” by Jason Hickel. I’m recommending this book to everyone especially Jared. Jared has recently wrote about the stagnation of GDP and warning of its possible seriousness. I’m reading that GDP is also a marker for using the Earth’s resources and diminishing the health of the natural world. Hickel makes plausible arguments that the only fix for capitalism is an economic system that isn’t based on compounded growth which means more and more energy use and resource extraction. I can’t do the book justice here, but would be highly interested in Jared’s take. Interview Hickel or write a critique. I think it will make for a great discussion.