Book Reviews: ‘Bleakonomics’, ‘Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That’s OK’, ‘Shelley at Oxford’ & ‘The Lovely Horrible Stuff’

Capitalisms diminishing returns

‘Bleakonomics’, by Rob Larson. (Pluto Press. 2012)

Larson has written an engaging polemic against free-market capitalism and its proponents, focusing on the role of ‘externalities’such as environmental destruction and the inadequate consideration of these by conventional economics.