"The book aims to counter the normative functioning of creativity in contemporary capitalism with a plethora of alternatives to radical creative practices. In the first part, titled 'Creative Capitalism', five authors analyze the forms of contemporary capitalism: on the one hand, there are new...

The power of entrepreneurship -- The power of institutions: economic regimes and the permanent renewal of capitalism -- The power of ideas and inventions -- Pioneering companies -- From the rise of industrial cities to post-industrial suburbanization -- Bubbles, great depressions: economic cycles

"In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a local economy made up of settlers, loggers, and business people from Lower Canada, New Brunswick, and New England developed on the banks of the Upper Saint John River in an area known as the Madawaska Territory. This emergent economy was...

"The Future of Capitalism After the Financial Crisis: The Varieties of Capitalism Debate in the Age of Austerity contains thirteen world leading political economists writing from within eight different countries who critically analyze the current crisis tendencies of capitalism both globally and...