ASIN: B011W1YOYI
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 398
The author tries to address the issues of global poverty, environmental deterioration, increasing work pressure, economic crises, exacerbating wealth concentration and social inequality through the lens of Karl Marx, Fernand Braudel, Immanuel Wallerstein, etc. and provides an answer called “the urge of capital". By analyzing the problems in a systematic and holistic approach, the author illustrates how this urge created our world as we know today, and how it will continue to affect our everyday life as well as the future of humanity. Towards the end, a range of suggestions are also put forward to counter the destructive trend of capitalistic expansion, so as to achieve a more just, harmonious and sustainable world. Some examples in the book are cited in reference to the context of Hong Kong and China, which provide Western readers an interesting glimpse of the political and economic ...
