The history of the dot-com stock rise and fall from an economics reporter and staff writer for The New Yorker .The Internet stock bubble wasn't just about goggle-eyed day traders trying to get rich on the Nasdaq and goateed twenty-five-year-olds playing wannabe Bill Gates. It was also about an America that believed it had discovered the secret of eternal prosperity: it said something about all of us, and what we thought a...

A Financial Times Most Anticipated Book of 2025A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book of 2025A sweeping, dramatic history of capitalism as seen through the eyes of its fiercest critics.Capitalism has long been understood as a driving force behind the biggest political, economic, and social dislocations of our time. But in this sweeping, kaleidoscopic history of the economic system that has shaped our world, the Pulitzer Pr...

Wie lässt sich eine gerechtere, zukunftsfähige Gesellschaft denken?Diese zentrale Frage eint Kapitalismuskritiker durch die Jahrhunderte. Rasant und gewinnbringend porträtiert John Cassidy die wichtigsten Denker und Denkerinnen, deren Ideen für die Gegenwart genauso relevant sind wie vor 250 Jahren.Von Adam Smiths Kolonialkritik über Rosa Luxemburgs sozialistischer Utopie bis zu den ökologischen Visionen des indischen Ökonomen J. C. Kumarappa entfaltet er i...

Brought to you by Penguin.A sweeping history of capitalism as seen through the eyes of its fiercest criticsAt a time when we are faced with fundamental questions about the sustainability and morality of the economic system, Capitalism and Its Critics provides a kaleidoscopic history of global capitalism, from colonialism and the Industrial Revolution to the ecological crisis and artificial intelligence.John Cassidy adopts a...

An overview of witchcraft in Ireland over seven centuries

A Financial Times Most Anticipated Book of 2025A sweeping, dramatic history of capitalism as seen through the eyes of its fiercest critics.At a time when artificial intelligence, climate change, and inequality are raising fundamental questions about the economic system, Capitalism and Its Critics provides a kaleidoscopic history of global capitalism, from the East India Company and Industrial Revolution to the digital revo...

When a little girl gets trapped within a terrible storm, the mouse size creatures of Willow Creek risk paw and tail to rescue her as they are bombarded by ravenous crows, hampered by a battalion of ants, besieged by angry bees, attacked by a gruesome mole, flooded by a raging sprinkler system, and still they have yet to travel a single block. Welcome to Willow Creek, home of the rarest pups on earth; they also happen to be the most self-absorbed, neurotic, ill-mannered, chatterboxes this s...

How did we get to where we are? John Cassidy shows that the roots of our most recent financial failure lie not with individuals, but with an idea - the idea that markets are inherently rational. He gives us the big picture behind the financial headlines, tracing the rise and fall of free market ideology from Adam Smith to Milton Friedman and Alan Greenspan. Full of wit, sense and, above all, a deeper understanding, How Markets Fail argues for the end of 'utopian' economics, and th...

In "The Life and Times of Gen. John Graves Simcoe," D. B. Read deftly intertwines biography with historical narrative, crafting a vivid portrayal of one of Canada's most pivotal figures. The book employs a meticulous chronological structure, allowing readers to traverse Simcoe's life from his military exploits during the American Revolution to his tenure as the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada. Read's literary style is characterized by eloquent prose, well-researched anecdotes, an...

It was a fateful night for more than a few people once the White Event struck. It was the night that Bass Reeves Jr. lost his old job, and gained a new one. It was the night that changed the lives of many of the residents of the fast-growing town of Cassidy. The town was already in the midst of change, as it was slowly migrating from a cattle drive town, to a mining one. The White Event simply brought even more change to Cassidy, much of which was unexpected and not for the better.

It was a fateful night for more than a few people once the White Event struck. It was the night that Bass Reeves Jr. lost his old job, and gained a new one. It was the night that changed the lives of many of the residents of the fast-growing town of Cassidy. The town was already in the midst of change, as it was slowly migrating from a cattle drive town, to a mining one. The White Event simply brought even more change to Cassidy, much of which was unexpected and not for the better.

This book gathers the European reception of John. D. Caputo's proposal for a radical theology of our time. Philosophers and theologians from within Europe respond to Caputo's attempt to configure a less rigid, less dogmatic form of religion. These scholars, in turn, receive responses by Caputo. This volume so aims to strengthen the development of radical theology in Europe and abroad.