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The New Capitalists: How Citizen Investors Are Reshaping the Corporate Agenda is a 2006 book by Stephen Davis, Jon Lukomnik and David Pitt-Watson. [1] It describes the increasing ownership of companies by collective investment schemes representing millions of savers. The millions of savers are called the "New Capitalists".
Velagapudi Ramakrishna CIE, (1896–1968) was an Indian Civil Service (ICS) officer, industrialist, and philanthropist. He started the KCP (Krishna Commercial Products) group of companies in 1941 with a co-operative sugar factory in Andhra Pradesh. [1] He was a pioneering industrialist in the erstwhile Madras State.
Raghuram Rajan, former governor of the Reserve Bank of India, has said: "One of the greatest dangers to the growth of developing countries is the middle income trap, where crony capitalism creates oligarchies that slow down growth. If the debate during the elections is any pointer, this is a very real concern of the public in India today". [46]
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power is a 2019 non-fiction book by Shoshana Zuboff which looks at the development of digital companies like Google and Amazon, and suggests that their business models represent a new form of capitalist accumulation that she calls "surveillance capitalism".
The book was generally met with favorable reviews, including Reason magazine, [2] The Economist, [10] Financial Times, [11] and The Spectator. [7]Some critics of the book included the New Statesman, [12] and Kristian Niemietz of IEA stated that the book was even-handed in its criticism of both left and right wing politically motivated anti-liberalism, "Some chapters are primarily aimed at the ...
The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age is a 2018 non-fiction book written by British author James Crabtree. The book is about wealth inequality in India, exploring Indian billionaires, the caste, and economic reform advocates. Crabtree is a journalist for Financial Times.
Shatakshee Ramesh Dhongde [1] is an associate professor at the School of Economics, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, Georgia Institute of Technology.She has provided research papers to the several institutions including the International Monetary Fund and the World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER).
Market fundamentalism, also known as free-market fundamentalism, is a term applied to a strong belief in the ability of unregulated laissez-faire or free-market capitalist policies to solve most economic and social problems. [1]