THE CAPITALISM PAPERS

Finally, internationally recognized social critic Jerry Mander researches, discusses, and exposes the momentous and unsolvable environmental and social problem of capitalism. He argues that capitalism, utterly dependent on never-ending economic growth, is an impossible absurdity on a finite planet with limited resources.

In the vein of his bestseller, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, Mander contends that may have worked in 1900 but it is calamitous in 2010. Climate change, together with global food, water, and resource shortages, is only the start. He draws attention to capitalism’s obsessive need to dominate and undermine democracy, as well as to diminish social and economic equity. Designed to operate free of morality, the system promotes permanent war as a key economic strategy. Worst of all, the problems of capitalism are intrinsic to the form. Many organizations are already anticipating the breakdown of the system and are working to define new hierarchies of democratic values that respect the carrying capacities of the planet. About the Author Called the patriarch of the anti-Globalization movement by The New York Times, Jerry Mander was Founder and is a Distinguished Fellow of the International Forum on Globalization. He also spent 15 years in the advertising business as president of Freeman, Mander & Gossage, including producing the famous Sierra Club campaigns of the 1960s that saved the Grand Canyon. With over 35 years of work in anti-globalization and ecology movements, critiquing both global economic failures and realizing the intrinsic impacts of economic growth, few are as well qualified as Mander to discuss the flaws of capitalism.