Flawed Capitalism by David Coates

Flawed Capitalism by David Coates

A major statement on the Anglo-American economic model from a leading theorist of contemporary capitalism and a call for a new social settlement based on greater income equality and social justice.

Anybody seeking to understand why Donald Trump is president and why the UK voted for Brexit should read David Coates’s important new bookIt explains the flaws in the Anglo-Saxon economic model; even better, it suggests ways of putting things right.

-- Larry Elliott, Economics Editor, The Guardian
With this provocative book and its bold examination of the past fifty years of political and economic change in the United States and the UK, David Coates makes an essential contribution to our understanding of the enormous challenges facing both sides of the Atlantic today. Beyond that, it lays bare the choices people and their leaders must make if future generations are to have a semblance of the opportunities we have had. -- Judy Woodruff, PBS NewsHour
This excellent book not only shows us how the model of capitalism operating in the US and the UK is flawed, it also tells us why, through an original and engaging account of imperialist politics and ideological hubris in American and British statecraft. Coates's writing combines both depth and breadth – a very rare feat – and this book deserves to be widely read. -- Craig Berry, SPERI, University of Sheffield
An outstanding study of the Anglo-American condition: Coates combines a powerful moral impulse with impeccable research and a fine grasp of the differences and the similarities between the two nations. -- Michael Moran, Emeritus Professor of Government, University of Manchester
Our economic system feels like it's natural: it’s not and it’s not working. In Flawed Capitalism David Coates tells us what’s going wrong and why. More importantly the book sets out the alternatives. Flawed Capitalism is a route map out of crisis and towards a good society. -- Neal Lawson, Chair of Compass
An erudite diagnosis of what Coates terms the ‘Anglo-American condition’, a deep malaise which threatens to destabilise the global order. Panoramic in its perspective and meticulous in its empirical detail, this is required reading for anyone interested in the entrenched pathologies of capitalism’s Anglophone heartlands. -- Scott Lavery, speri.comment: the political economy blog

David Coates (1946–2018) held the Worrell Chair in Anglo–American Studies in the Department of Political Science at Wake Forest University, North Carolina.

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ISBN 13	9781911116332
ISBN 10	1911116339
Title	Flawed Capitalism
Author	David Coates
Series	Building Progressive Alternatives
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Agenda Publishing
Year published	2018-04-30
Number of pages	328
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