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One that you might like is a People's Guide to Capitalism,

an introduction to Marxist economics,

by Hadass Tere.

Economists regularly promote capitalism as the greatest system ever to grace the planet.

In the same breath, they implore us to leave the job of understanding the magical powers of the market to the experts.

Despite the efforts of these mainstream commentators to convince us otherwise,

many of us have begun to question why the system has produced

such vast inequality and want and disregard for its own environmental destruction.

This book offers answers to exactly these questions on their own terms

in the form of a radical economic theory. As Kianga Yamada Taylor says of the book

quote Ariadite and Sharp As Kieanga Yamada Taylor says of the book,

quote, Ariadite and Sharp,

Tier unpacks the mystery of capitalist inequality

with lucid and accessible prose.

As we all enter into a world of new realities, we will need books like a

people's guide to help us make sense of the root causes of the financial crises

that shape so many of our struggles today.

A People's Guide to Capitalism, an Introduction to Marxist Economics,

by Hadas Teer, out now from Haymarket Books. Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm

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