Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts and the Death of Freedom

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Everything you know about capitalism is wrong. Free markets arent really free. Record corporate profits dont trickle down to everyone else. And we arent empowered to make our own choices theyre made for us every day. In Vulture Capitalism, acclaimed journalist Grace Blakeley takes on the worlds most powerful corporations by showing how the causes of our modern crisis are the intended result of our capitalist system. Its not broken, its working exactly as planned. From Amazon to Boeing, Henry Ford to Richard Nixon, Blakeley shows us exactly where late-stage capitalism has gone wrong. Searing, explosive and timely, Vulture Capitalism is the book you need to understand what is happening in the world around you and what you can do to change it.

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Grace Blakeley is a staff writer at Tribune magazine and author of Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation and The Corona Crash. She previously worked as a research fellow for the Institute for Public Policy Research and as the New Statesmans economic commentator. She appears regularly in the media as a political and economic commentator, including appearances on Question Time, BBC This Week, and BBC Breakfast.