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John Cassidy is a British-American journalist who has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1995, where he covers economics, finance, and politics. He is the author of Dot.con, a history of the internet stock bubble, and How Markets Fail, a Pulitzer Prize finalist on the economics of the 2008 crisis.
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2025
Cassidy tells the history of capitalism through its critics — from the Luddites and early socialists to Marx, Luxemburg, Keynes, and today's degrowth and AI skeptics — tracing two centuries of dissent from the Industrial Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence.
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