Capitalism: A Graphic Guide
by Sharron Shatil (Author), Dan Cryan (Author), Piero (Illustrator)

About the Author
Dan Cryan has degrees in philosophy from UCL and now works as a market analyst in San Francisco.
Sharron Shatil is a philosophy lecturer at the Open University in Israel. Together they are also the authors of Introducing Logic: A Graphic Guide.
Piero is an illustrator, artist and graphic designer. He has illustrated over ten books in the Introducing Graphic Guide series.

About this book
Capitalism shapes every aspect of our world, beyond just our economic structures; it moulds our values and influences the way we write laws, wage wars and even conduct personal relationships.
From its beginnings to the present day, Capitalism: A Graphic Guide tells the story of capitalism’s remarkable and often ruthless rise, evolving through strife and struggle as much as innovation and enterprise.
This non-fiction graphic novel explores the key developments that have shaped our modern world, from early banking to the Opium Wars, financial crashes, the rise of service economies and concerns about sustainability. It also introduces us to the leading proponents and critics of capitalism, providing both a theoretical and practical understanding of this fascinating subject.

Brief contents

• Capital and Capitalism
• Capitalism vs. Feudalism
• The Crusades
• The Knights Templar
• Dissolution of the Templars
• Opening up the Trade Routes
• Expansionism
• The Birthplace of Capitalism
• The Dutch East India Company
• English Pirates
• The Power of Private Investment
• Hobbes, the First Capitalist Thinker
• The Power of thelndividual
• The State of Nature
• Leviathan and the Social Contract
• Natural Reason and Private Property
• Labour = Ownership?
• Locke and Civil Government
• Locke and Colonialism
• The Wealth of Nations
• Self-interest
• The Invisible Hand
• Specialization of Skills
• Free Trade
• The Scottish Enlightenment
• The Slave Trade
• The Rothschilds
• Industrialization
• The Opium Wars
• The Rise of Social Sciences
• David Ricardo
• The Cost of Labour
• The Workers’ Straitjacket
• John Stuart Mill
• Utilitarianism
• The Pleasures of Freedom
• Rules of Nature and Society
• Distribution of Wealth
• Supply and Demand
• Humane Capitalism?
• Life in the Slums
• The Great Famine
• Movements for Reform
• The Chartists
• The Birth of Socialism
• Control of the Means of Production
• Bakunin and Anarchism
• Marx, the anti-Utopian
• Marx and Hegel
• Resolving the Contradictions
• Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis
• The End of History?
• Historical Materialism
• The History of Class Struggles
• Das Kapital
• Value = Human Labour
• Surplus Value
• Marx’s Prediction
• Capitalism Without Imperialism
• The Rise of the US and Germany
• The Production Line
• The “Empires of Trade”
• The Roaring Twenties
• The Crash and the Great Depression
• The New Deal
• Keynes and Liberal Economics
• A Healthy Circulation
• The Cycles of Capitalism
• Beating Inflation
• Fighting Depression
• State Capitalism
• “Economic Miracles”
• The Marshall Plan
• Monetarism vs. Keynesianism
• How to Ensure Rising Consumption?
• Post-industrial Society
• Post Fordism
• The Rise of Intangible Assets
• Finance Capitalism
• Global Shifts in Production
• Cultural Effects of Capitalism
• Max Weber and the Protestant Spirit
• Catholic and Protestant Ethics
• The Rise of Rationality
• Making Organizations Work for People
• Neo-Marxism and the Frankfurt School
• The Adoration of the New
• Unmasking Consumer Culture
• Adorno and the Media
• The Construction of Consciousness
• Seeing Beyond the System
• The Situationists
• Debord and the Spectacle
• Every Choice a Pseudo-choice
• Right-wing Critiques of Capitalism
• Knowing Your Place
• Feminist Critiques of Capitalism
• Unpaid Work
• Sustainability
• Liberty and Difference
• Nozick and Right-wing Libertarianism
• Taxation as Forced Labour?
• Fukuyama and the End of History
• Directional History
• The Struggle for Recognition
• Challenging the Free Market
• The Developing World: Free Trade … ?
• … or State Capitalism?
• Islam and Capitalism
• Sharia Banking
• Bursting the Bubble
• All Things Not Being Equal
• Further Reading
• Acknowledgements
• Index
  

Pages: 208 pages
Publisher: Icon Books (September 11, 2019)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1785785141
ISBN-13: 978-1785785146