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The world is encountering multiple crises--climate, droughts, floods, energy, food, and pandemics, to name a few. We have a problem, this is the solution. Capitalism and Crises is about how capitalism can fix them--how it can solve not cause them. The reason why it has caused them is that we have misconceived the nature of our capitalist system. We have failed to understand the key institution at the heart of it--business--and as a result we have allowed it to cause as well as solve problems. This book describes why this has happened and what needs to change to address it. Drawing on history, philosophy, psychology, and biology as well economics, law, and finance, Mayer describes what has gone wrong, what needs to change, and how to fix it. He sets out the big challenges that capitalism must address and how it should set about doing that, and discusses how financial institutions should be at the heart of this, and how the public sector can work with the private on a common purpose of solving problems and creating shared prosperity. Capitalism and Crises provides an inspiring and motivational roadmap of how we as practitioners, policymakers, consumers, employees, communities, students, and citizens of the world can together tackle the challenges of the twenty-first century--to flourish and survive.

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Colin Mayer is Emeritus Professor of Management Studies and visiting professor at the University of Oxford. He is a fellow of the British Academy, the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and the European Corporate Governance Institute, an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, an honorary fellow of Oriel College and St Anne's College, Oxford, and he has an honorary doctorate from Copenhagen Business School. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Oxford Playhouse, and was cochair of the Scottish Government Business Purpose Commission, a member of the UK Government Natural Capital Committee, and the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal. Bob Souer has lent his talents to network television, the internet, and everywhere else a human voice is used. He enjoys narrating nonfiction audiobooks and often takes on eLearning projects for clients around the world.

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