Prosperity Without Greed ─ How to Save Ourselves from Capitalism

It is time to leave capitalism behind. In Prosperity without Greed, Sahra Wagenknecht shows that we live in a system of economic feudalism that has nothing to do with a free market economy, where the innovations we require to solve myriad important societal problems are not forthcoming. How can it be, Wagenknecht asks, that technological developments financed by the taxpayer end up enriching private companies even if those companies’ activities violate public interests? Through clear analysis and concrete proposals, Wagenknecht suggestss new forms of ownership and sketches the outlines of an innovative and just economy that instead promotes and rewards talent, real performance, and start-ups with groundbreaking ideas.

Sahra Wagenknecht is a German economist, journalist, and politician. Since October 2015, she has been the parliamentary leader of the party Die Linke in the German Bundestag. She is the author of The Limits of Choice: Saving Decisions and Basic Needs in Developed Countries, also published by Campus Verlag. Andreas Pickel is professor of global politics at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. Among his translated books is Karl Popper’s The Two Fundamental Problems of the Theory of Knowledge.