Escape From Capitalism

It is neither. Clara Mattei illustrates brilliantly its fragility and restores hope that everything could be different' Yanis VaroufakisEconomics is sold as pure and apolitical: scientific, neutral, exact. This urgent book exposes its true role: to convince us there s no alternative to capitalism. We live in a world dominated by the dogma that austerity is necessary, unemployment natural, endless wars inevitable and central banks all-powerful. It doesn t have to be this way.In her bold, ground-breaking manifesto, economist Clara E. Mattei tears the mask off our economic system. She unpacks key concepts like growth, inflation, unemployment and balanced budgets to show how they re weaponized to enforce market dependence, not freedom, stripping us of the power to shape the democratic decisions that govern our daily lives. Enduring problems such as poverty and inequality are not accidents or bugs in the economy, but core features justified