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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: To early economists, workers created value, while landlords merely extracted it all.
Chapter 3: In neoclassical economics, value hinges on consumers, rather than on workers.
Chapter 4: Despite broad acceptance, GDP remains deeply flawed as a measure of value.
Chapter 5: Financial sector growth isn’t as beneficial for the broader overall economy as many people imagine.
Chapter 6: In recent decades, financialization has dominated the entire economy, not only the financial sector itself.
Chapter 7: Governments have enabled booming innovation economy to extract value.
Chapter 8: We must stop assuming the private sector is always better than public.
Chapter 9: We must focus more on value, and less on price instead.
Description
The Value of Everything (2018) presents an argument for redefining value in the economy so that we can better understand who really creates value, and who extracts it.
Who Should Listen
- Economists eager for new ideas
- Fans of politics in search of change
- Lovers of radical ideas and ambitious visions