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Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists Unleashing the Power of Financial Markets to Create Wealth and Spread Opportunity

Raghuram G. Rajan

Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists Capitalism’s biggest problem is the executive in pinstripes who extols the virtues of competitive markets with every breath while attempting to extinguish them with every action.

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Freakonomics Radio

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Freakonomics Radio

It was mentioned as Rajan's first book, and was the reason he got an interview for his first job at the IMF, as he had a finance background, something the IMF felt it lacked at the time.

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I sent her my first book, Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists.

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It was mentioned as Rajan's first book, and was the reason he got an interview for his first job at the IMF, as he had a finance background, something the IMF felt it lacked at the time.

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I sent her my first book, Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists.

Behind the Bastards

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Behind the Bastards

This book was mentioned in the context of the transformation problem, a debate about how to move from dollars as a unit of measurement to dollars from time.

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If you want to go read more about it, I have wasted probably four years of my life reading about it. I don't recommend it. But the answer is you can sort of kind of get it to work if you fuck with the...

— Episode: It Could Happen Here Weekly 40

Episode: It Could Happen Here Weekly 40

This book was mentioned in the context of the transformation problem, a debate about how to move from dollars as a unit of measurement to dollars from time.

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If you want to go read more about it, I have wasted probably four years of my life reading about it. I don't recommend it. But the answer is you can sort of kind of get it to work if you fuck with the numbers a lot. But it's if you do, it's unclear if they mean anything. You can also bypass it entirely by arguing that only works in the level of the entire world economy, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I don't care. If you do care about this, don't yell at me. Go read chapter six of Bickler and Nielsen's Capitalist Power, Paul Maddox's Theory of Critique, Fred Mosley's Money in Totality and Kilman and McGlure's Temporal Single System Interpretation of Marx's Value Theory.

Episode: It Could Happen Here Weekly 40

This book was mentioned as a reference for the transformation problem in Marxist economic theory.

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Go read chapter six of Bickler and Nielsen's Capitalist Power, Paul Maddox's Theory of Critique, Fred Mosley's Money in Totality and Kilman and McGlure's Temporal Single System Interpretation of Marx's Value Theory.

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