Capitalism
A Ghost Story
by Arundhati Roy
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Finance, Politics, and Social Sciences.
From the poisoned rivers, barren wells, and clearcut forests, to the hundreds of thousands of farmers who have committed suicide to escape punishing debt, to the hundreds of millions of people who live on less than two dollars a day, there are ghosts nearly everywhere you look in India. India is a nation of 1.2 billion, but the country?s 100 riche...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Finance, Politics, and Social Sciences.
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Imani Perry
“My favorite books defining/critiquing Neoliberalism: Dardot & Laval?s The New Way of the World, Arundhati Roy?s Capitalism A Ghost Story, Wendy Brown?s Undoing the Demos. There are many more but those are clear & beautifully argued.”
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