Who on earth is Elon Musk and what is he doing? Is he a hero, a villain, or does he swing constantly between those two poles? According to the constant media gush driven by his every act and pronouncement, Musk is best understood in personal terms. This book argues differently. Rather than seeing Musk as an individual, it sees him as an avatar of something called Muskism: a playbook for our new postliberal age.It’s not that Musk himself holds a coherent set of beliefs; you co...
Każdy ma swoje zdanie na temat Elona Muska. Dla jednych jest geniuszem, dla innych zagrożeniem albo klaunem. Opinie są skrajne, ale łączy je jedno: traktują Muska jako jednostkę. Autorzy tej książki proponują radykalnie inną perspektywę: Elon Musk nie jest wyjątkiem, lecz zwiastunem nowej ery współczesnego kapitalizmu. Jeśli gospodarkę XX wieku zdefiniował fordyzm, XXI wiek należy do muskizmu – doktryny, która łączy kapitał, technologię i władzę w niespotykanej dotą...
After the end of the Cold War, neoliberalism, with its belief in the virtues of markets and competition, seemed to have triumphed. Communism had been defeated – and Friedrich Hayek, the spiritual father of neoliberal economics, had just about lived to see it. But in the decades that followed, Hayek’s disciples knew that they had a problem. The rise of social movements, from civil rights and feminism to environmentalism, were now proving roadblocks in the road to freedom, nurt...
