Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Subir Ghosh, Jyotirmoy Chaudhuri, "GAS WARS: Crony Capitalism and the Ambanis"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 8192855120, 8192855155 | 590 pages | EPUB | 5.5 MB
The two brothers had fought over many issues, but what sometimes got lost in the din of the battle cries was a simple fact: much of the tussle was over India's natural resources, about how the resources were intended to be mined, marketed and monetised.' Paranjoy Guha Thakurta shows how the simmering controversy over the rich natural gas reserves in the Krishna-Godavari Basin boiled over into a primetime storm on gas pricing involving the office of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas as well as the Prime Minister's Office, even as he introduces new dimensions to it. While many reasons have been attributed to the split in the powerful Indian business family, the Ambanis, this book argues that the battle between the Ambani brothers was largely about wresting control over reserves of natural gas that are below the ocean bed along the basin of the two greatest rivers of southern India. With painstaking research, a meticulous perusal of press reports, as well as a few surprising exclusives, Gas Wars highlights cases of crony capitalism that allowed the Reliance group to blatantly exploit loopholes which were consciously retained in the system to benefit it. Even as the book tells the story of how the country's largest corporate conglomerate has benefited from the way government policies are structured, it lays bare the alarming facts of a natural disaster waiting to happen due to the ruthless exploitation of the country's natural resources in order to swell the fortunes of a few.

Jennifer L. Morgan, "Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic"
English | ISBN: 1478014148 | 2021 | 312 pages | PDF | 5 MB
In Reckoning with Slavery Jennifer L. Morgan draws on the lived experiences of enslaved African women in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to reveal the contours of early modern notions of trade, race, and commodification in the Black Atlantic. From capture to transport to sale to childbirth, these women were demographically counted as commodities during the Middle Passage, vulnerable to rape, separated from their kin at slave markets, and subject to laws that enslaved their children upon birth. In this way, they were central to the binding of reproductive labor with kinship, racial hierarchy, and the economics of slavery. Throughout this groundbreaking study, Morgan demonstrates that the development of Western notions of value and race occurred simultaneously. In so doing, she illustrates how racial capitalism denied the enslaved their kinship and affective ties while simultaneously relying on kinship to reproduce and enforce slavery through enslaved female bodies.

The Failure and Feasibility of Capitalism in Africa (International Political Economy Series)
English | 2021 | ISBN: 3030751694 | 311 Pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book argues that capitalism has practically failed to deliver the long-desired economic transformation and inclusive development in postcolonial Africa. The principal factor that accounts for this failure is the prolific non-productive forms of capitalism that tend to be dominant in the African continent and their governance dimensions. The research explores how and why capitalism has failed in the African context and the feasibility of turning it around. The book meets the demands of diverse audiences in the fields of International Political Economy, Development Economics, Political Science, and African Studies. The author adopts an unconventional narrativist approach that makes the book amenable to general readership.

Nine Visions of Capitalism by Charles Hampden-Turner
English | July 20, 2015 | ISBN: 1908984406 | 352 pages | AZW3 | 2.98 Mb

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Crony Capitalism in US Health Care: Anatomy of a Dysfunctional System by Naresh Khatri
English | Jul 14, 2021 | ISBN: 0367631172 | 136 pages | PDF | 5 MB
The US political system has come to depend upon money too much. The US health care industry spends the most on political lobbying among all the 13 industrial sectors in the US economy. The government regulatory agencies at both federal and state levels have been "captured" by the health industry interest groups meaning that the regulatory agencies respond to the interests of the industry but not those of citizens.

Klaus Schwab Stakeholder Capitalism A Global Economy that Works for Progress People and Planet Wiley 2021
epub | 1.35 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B08SJPC1XC | Author: Klaus Schwab | Year: 2021

The Crafts and Capitalism - Handloom Weaving Industry in Colonial India
pdf | 3.66 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B08465RK37 | Author: Tirthankar Roy | Year: 2020

English | ASIN: B0973BK8KY | 2021 | 8 hours and 17 minutes |MP3|M4B | 228 MB
In Britain alone, more than 20 per cent of the adult population take a psychiatric drug in any one year. This is an increase of over 500 per cent since 1980 and the numbers continue to grow. Yet, despite this prescription epidemic, levels of mental illness of all types have actually increased in number and severity.
Using a wealth of studies, interviews with experts and detailed analysis, Dr James Davies argues that this is because we have fundamentally mischaracterised the problem. Rather than viewing most mental distress as an understandable reaction to wider societal problems, we have embraced a medical model which situates the problem solely within the sufferer and their brain. Urgent and persuasive, Sedated systematically examines why this individualistic view of mental illness has been promoted by successive governments and big business - and why it is so misplaced and dangerous.

English | ASIN: B097YW7JR9 | 2021 | 3 hours and 48 minutes |kbps | 104 MB
What is capitalism? Is capitalism the same everywhere? Is there an alternative? The word capitalism is one that is heard and used frequently, but what is capitalism really all about, and what does it mean? This Very Short Introduction audiobook addresses questions such as, "what is capital?" before discussing the history and development of capitalism through several detailed case studies, ranging from the tulipomania of 17th-century Holland, the Great Depression of the 1930s, and, in this new edition, the impact of the global financial crisis that started in 2007-08.
James Fulcher looks at the different forms that capitalism takes in Britain, Japan, Sweden, and the United States, and explores whether capitalism has escaped the nation-state by going global. It ends by asking whether there is an alternative to capitalism, discussing socialism, communal and cooperative experiments, and the alternatives proposed by environmentalists.

Capitalism's Crisis Deepens by Richard D Wolff
epub | 804.07 KB | English | Isbn:4596390 | Author: Wolff, Richard D.; | Year: 2016