A Pause in the Storm: Episode 2 with Hadas Thier

Published: Nov. 23, 2021, 7 a.m.

b"A Pause in the Storm is a new series from Haymarket Books and Gargi Bhattacharyya.\\n\\nJoin Gargi Bhattacharyya and one Haymarket author every month to explore ways of collectively rebuilding our crumbling world. Short and accessible, these conversations encourage us to pause and reflect on how to change everything.\\n\\nOur chat this month features Hadas Thier, author of A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics (Haymarket Books, 2020). \\n\\nEconomists regularly promote Capitalism as the greatest system ever to grace the planet. With the same breath, they implore us to leave the job of understanding the magical powers of the market to the \\u201cexperts.\\u201d Despite the efforts of these mainstream commentators to convince us otherwise, many of us have begun to question why this system has produced such vast inequality and wanton disregard for its own environmental destruction. This book offers answers to exactly these questions on their own terms: in the form of a radical economic theory.\\n\\nGargi Bhattacharyya is one of the UK\\u2019s leading scholars on race and capitalism. She is the author of Rethinking Racial Capitalism (2018), Dangerous Brown Men (2008), Traffick (2005) and co-author of Empire\\u2019s Endgame (2020)."