Since the fall of the Berlin Wall we have been told that no alternative to Western capitalism is possible or desirable. This book challenges this view with two arguments. First, the above premise ignores the enormous variety within capitalism itself. Second, there are enormous forces of...

Soziale Ungleichheit und ökonomische Stagnation auf den freien Märkten sind die zentralen Probleme unserer Zeit. Die Lösung: den Markt endlich zügeln, oder? Die Querdenker Posner und Weyl stellen dieses Denken - und so ziemlich alles konventionelle Denken über Wirtschaft - buchstäblich auf...

In this book, economist and evolutionary game theorist Daniel Freidman demonstrates that our moral codes and our market systems, while often in conflict, are really devices evolved to achieve similar ends, and that society functions best when morals and markets are in balance with each other.

Is there a feasible and desirable alternative to capitalism? Challenging capitalism has been somewhat taboo for academic economists since the collapse of communism. And yet it remains a hot question, not just because nine years after the outbreak of the financial crisis, unemployment is still...