Vulture Capitalism: How to Survive in an Age of Corporate Greed: Grace Blakeley: Bloomsbury Publishing

Vulture Capitalism

How to Survive in an Age of Corporate Greed

Vulture Capitalism

How to Survive in an Age of Corporate Greed

Description

* Longlisted for the inaugural Women's Prize for Non-Fiction *

'If you've ever wondered why you (and everyone you know) feel so out of control of the world around you, this book will give you the answer' ASH SARKAR
'A must-read for anyone keen to put the demos back in democracy' YANIS VAROUFAKIS

Everything you know about capitalism is wrong.

Free markets aren't really free. Record corporate profits don't trickle down to everyone else. And we aren't empowered to make our own choices – they're made for us every day.

Taking on the world's most powerful figures and corporations – from JP Morgan to Boeing, Jeff Bezos to Donald Trump – Vulture Capitalism uncovers the causes of our modern crisis to reveal the true motives of our capitalist system. Because it isn't broken: it's working exactly as planned.

This is the book you need to understand what is happening in the world around you – and what you can do to change it.

'Read this book if you want to make fundamental changes to the world' HA-JOON CHANG

Product details

Published	13 Jul 2025
Format	Paperback
Edition	1st
Extent	416
ISBN	9781526638069
Imprint	Bloomsbury Publishing
Dimensions	198 x 129 mm
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Author

Grace Blakeley

Grace Blakeley is a staff writer at Tribune magazi…

Vulture Capitalism is a vigorous rejection of the liberal idea that if only some enlightened government were to tweak its policies correctly, democratic capitalism would bring prosperity to all

Sam Leith, Guardian
Blakeley recasts capitalist democracies as "system[s] of pervasive unfreedom", a thesis she backs up with excoriating case studies

Vogue
Demolishes the idea that capitalism is dominated by the “freedom” of the market. Blakeley carefully goes over how businesses plan their own production and states coordinate society for profit

Socialist Worker
We should not assume that there's just one way to arrange a market economy in a democracy . . . This argument is having a bit of a public moment. The young economist Grace Blakeley's new book Vulture Capitalism makes the case that capitalism as we see it now offers none of the virtues (free enterprise, moral hazard, market discipline) that its PR department claims for it

Spectator
An insightful takedown of corporate excesses and shady dealings

Irish Independent
For evocative and transportive nonfiction to educate, inspire and expand your perspective, look no further than Vulture Capitalism, a book that dismantles the modern financial systems of capitalism

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