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020 _a9781803414300
082 _a 330.122 FIS
100 _aFisher, Mark
245 _aCapitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
260 _bZero Books
_c2008
_aLondon
300 _a87
520 _aAfter 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system - a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. The book analyses the development and principal features of this capitalist realism as a lived ideological framework. Using examples from politics, films, fiction, work and education, it argues that capitalist realism colors all areas of contemporary experience. But, it will also show that, because of a number of inconsistencies and glitches internal to the capitalist reality program capitalism in fact is anything but realistic
650 _aCapitalism
650 _aEconomics
942 _cBK
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999 _c51761
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