1. Capitalism for Beginners
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1981
   An amusing, soundly researched, and highly accessible illustrated book that tells you everything you want to know about capitalism.
2. A Chinese Alternative? Interpreting the Chinese New Left Politically
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2010
   In China, the terms 'left' and 'right' or 'radical' and 'conservative' produce somewhat different associations in the popular mind than what we are used to in the West. While in most capitalist countries 'left' and 'right' are understood largely in economic terms, in China these concepts tend to be deeply entangled within a framework defined by the state, the Communist Party, and nationalism. As a result, Chinese political debates have tended to presume a rigid dichotomy between 'left-wing' state socialism and 'right-wing' capitalist liberal democracy.
3. Chomsky on MisEducation
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2000
   Chomsky critiques the education system and discusses what education could be like in a democratic society.
4. Connexions Digest
   Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1989
   
5. Connexions Digest
   Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1992
   
6. Decolonization and Empire
   Contesting the Rhetoric and Reality of Resubordination in Southern Africa and Beyond
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2008
   John Saul scrutinizes the subjects of empire and the new neocolonialist states of Southern Africa funded by the International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization and World Bank. The gap between rich and poor continues to grow as the unequal opportunities and material outcomes of the free market entrench themselves. This hierarchy is in part self-creating and self-sustaining but also locked into place by these international institutions.
7. Democracy's Oxygen 
   How Corporations Control the News
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1997
   Winter shows that far from providing "democracy's oxygen," the news media legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informated, news organizations manufacture public consent for policies which favour the corporate elite.
8. Hegemony or Survival 
   America's Quest for Global Dominance
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2003   Published: 2004
   Chomsky documents how, for more than half a century, the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of dominating the globe.
9. Interview with Ulli Diemer
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1990
   Jeff Orchard interviews Ulli Diemer about socialism, capitalism, life, and social change.
10. Killing the Host 
    How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2015
    In Killing the Host, economist Michael Hudson exposes how finance, insurance, and real estate (the FIRE sector) have seized control of the global economy at the expense of industrial capitalism and governments.
11. Market Democracy in a Neoliberal Order
    Doctrines and Reality
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1997
    Noam Chomsky illustrates the importance of considering doctrine against the background of reality. He reveals that the political and economic principles that have prevailed are often remote from those that are proclaimed.
12. Melbourne: WEF Meets Real World
    Against The Current vol. 89
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    Over 15 000 people from all corners of Australia and farther afield blockaded the Asia-Pacific summit of the World Economic Forum (W.E.F.) in Melbourne between September 11 and 13 in the latest expression of the mood of anti-capitalist action around the world.
13. The Myth of the Market
    Promises and Illusions
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Advocates expelling the market from all those spaces it has inappropriately invaded.
14. The New Protectionism
    Protecting the Future Against Free Trade
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    This book analyses the powers behind the free trade argument to present an outline of what a viable and more just future could be.
15. Parasites in the Body Economic: the Disasters of Neoliberalism 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Michael Hudson discusses his new book, "Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy."
16. The Passion for Free Markets
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1997
    Chomsky discusses the reasons for being skeptical of the WTO and its use as the forum for the export of American values.
    
17. A People's History of the World 
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
18. The Price of A Bargain
    The Quest for Cheap and the Death of Globalization
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    Describes a world where the economy's collateral damage includes oil spills and the poisoning of developing nations' working poor; the low wages and illegal labour practices of corporations leading to the ultimate collapse of a system based on minimizing costs, high volume sales and low profit margins; and a world where debt is the cornerstone of the economy.
19. Profit over People
    Neoliberalism and Global Order
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Chomsky confronts neoliberalsim: the pro-corporate system of economic and political policies presently waging a form of class war worldwide.
20. Radical Digressions 2
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 1981   Published: 2000
    
21. Radical economics, Marxist economics and Marx's economics
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    The major global crises of the mid-1970s and 2008-9 provoked debates among the ruling class about the best economic policies to manage capitalism. For socialists and activists the question was different, and debates about whether and to what extent capitalism could be reformed to avert crisis and instil a more humane and fair system became even sharper.
22. The Shock Doctrine
    The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Klein chronicles free-market disasters of recent years and advances a theory that we are living in the age of 'disaster capitalism'.
23. The Socialist Register 1979
    Volume 16: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
    A series of essays on the state of the global economy.
24. The Socialist Register 1985/1986
    Volume 22: Social Democracy and After
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1986
    
25. The Socialist Register 1987
    Volume 23: Conservatism in Britain and America: Rhetoric and Reality
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    
26. The Trouble With Billionaires 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    The glittering lives of billionaires may seem to be a harmless source of entertainment, but authors Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks argue that such financial power not only threatens everyone's economic and social well-being but also upsets the very functioning of democracy. Our society tends to regard great wealth as evidence of exceptional talent or accomplishment. Yet spectacular fortunes are often attributable to luck, ruthlessness, cheating, or advantageous positioning that allow some to build on the work and insights of others who have paved the way.
27. Unequal Freedoms
    The Global Market as an Ethical System
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    McMurtry's central argument in this work is the global market can be an ethical thing if a civil commons is put into place. The civil commons is a economic system in which individuals, not a handful of corporations, take part in a equal opporutinity framework of supply and demand.
    
28. Vietnam: From National Liberation to Trans-Pacific Vassalage 1975-2015
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    In 1975 the people of Vietnam successfully ended one of the longest and bloodiest anti-colonial wars in world-history – defeating the US, the world's biggest imperial power, after 20 years of struggle.
29. What Difference Could a Revolution Make?
    Food and Farming in The New Nicarauga
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982   Published: 1983
    Reports on the dramatic changes brought by the first three years of the Sandinista revolution.
30. When Corporations Rule the World
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1995   Published: 2001
    Kortens' book is an examination of the growth of corporate power from its beginnings in the 17th and 18th to its entrenchment in American society in the 19th.
31. The X-Rated Free Market
    On Pornography, Royal Spermatozoa and the Free Market
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Is the pornography market the only free one? The question might seem provocative. Or a gross oversimplification. But it might also shed some light on certain points, namely those related with the political shaping of markets.

Experts on Wirtschaft/Freier Markt in the Sources Directory

1. World Bank