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Capitalism unleashed : finance globalization and welfare

Free enterprise is off the leash and chasing new opportunities for profit making across the globe. This book aims to challenge the notion of the capitalist destiny. Focusing on the history of the industrialized economies, it questions whether capitalism really has brought the levels of economic growth and prosperity that were hoped for.
Print Book, English, 2006
Oxford University, Oxford, UK, 2006
xv, 234 p. : il
9780199291991, 0199291993
427453911
1. Challenges to Capitalism; 2. Austerity, Privatization, and Deregulation; 3. Finance and Ownership; 4. Globalization and International Economic Relations; 5. Labour's Retreats; 6. Growth and Stability; 7. Welfare and Income Inequality