Harvard Book Store and the Cambridge Public Library welcome 
John Cassidy
—staff writer at 
The New Yorker
 and author of the books 
Dot.con: The Greatest Story Ever Sold 
and 
How Markets Fail
, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction—for a discussion of his new book 
Capitalism and Its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI
. He will be joined in conversation by 
Simon Johnson
—Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he is head of the Global Economics and Management group.
Ticketing
RSVP for free to this event or choose the "Book-Included" ticket to reserve a hardcover copy of 
Capitalism and Its Critics
 
and pick it up at the event. John Cassidy will sign copies of his new book after the presentation.
About 
Capitalism and Its Critics
A sweeping, dramatic history of capitalism as seen through the eyes of its fiercest critics.
At a time when artificial intelligence, climate change, and inequality are raising fundamental questions about the economic system, 
Capitalism and Its Critics
 provides a kaleidoscopic history of global capitalism, from the East India Company and Industrial Revolution to the digital revolution. But here John Cassidy, a staff writer at 
The New Yorker
 and a Pulitzer Prize finalist, adopts a bold new approach: he tells the story through the eyes of the system’s critics. From the English Luddites who rebelled against early factory automation to communists in Germany and Russia in the early twentieth century, to the Latin American 
dependistas
, the international Wages for Housework campaign of the 1970s, and the modern degrowth movement, the absorbing narrative traverses the globe. It visits with familiar names―Smith, Marx, Luxemburg, Keynes, Polanyi―but also focuses on many less familiar figures, including William Thompson, the Irish proto-socialist whose work influenced Marx; Flora Tristan, the French proponent of a universal labor union; John Hobson, the original theorist of imperialism; J. C. Kumarappa, the Indian exponent of Ghandian economics; Eric Williams, the Trinidadian author of a famous thesis on slavery and capitalism; Joan Robinson, the Cambridge economist and critic of the Cold War; and Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, the founding father of degrowth.
Blending rich biography, panoramic history, and lively exploration of economic theories, 
Capitalism and Its Critics 
is true big history that illuminates the deep roots of many of the most urgent issues of our time.
Bios
John Cassidy 
is a staff writer at 
The New Yorker
 and the author of 
Dot.con: The Greatest Story Ever Sold
 and 
How Markets Fail
, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction. He lives in New York City.
Simon Johnson
 is the Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he is head of the Global Economics and Management group. At MIT, he is also co-director of the Shaping the Future of Work Initiative and a Research Affiliate at Blueprint Labs. In 2024, Johnson received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Johnson’s most recent book 
Power and Progress: Our 1000-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
, co-written with Daron Acemoğlu, was published in 2023.
Masking Policy
Masks are encouraged but not required for this event.
Information Source: Harvard Book Store | eventbrite

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時間：	May 13, 2025 (UTC-4) 結束
地點：	Cambridge Public Library

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