Finance-Led Capitalism is a lively and provocative read, challenging some of the core beliefs behind modern finance and our world economy. Its rigorous balance of theory and real-world issues will generate debate and prove a popular read for anyone interested in the topic.
Here bestselling author and economist Robert Guttmann provides a new conceptual framework to assess the dominate role of modern finance within the workings of our contemporary economic system. He asserts that the notion of finance-led capitalism captures two additional dimensions through which finance gets...

Our planet faces a systemic threat from climate change, which the world community of nations is ill-prepared to address, and this book argues that a new form of ecologically conscious capitalism is needed in order to tackle this serious and rising threat.

History teaches us important lessons, provided we can discern its patterns.Multi-Polar Capitalismapplies this insight to the crucial, yet often underappreciated issue of international monetary relations. When international monetary systems get first put into place successfully, such as the “classic” gold standard in 1879, Bretton Woods in 1945, or the dollar standard in 1982, they structure relations between the system’s centre and the rest of the world so that others can catch up to the leader. But this growth-promoting constellation, a vector for accelerating globalization, runs its...