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The strength of capitalism has largely been based on the way the economic system created and maintained a mechanism of accounting for economic value. Lorenzo Fioramonti argues that a new approach is emerging and could topple capitalism.

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Why capitalism wins. And how a simple accounting move can defeat it

Lorenzo Fioramonti, University of Pretoria

A new accounting system that goes beyond the capitalist understanding of value is bubbling under and could topple capitalism itself.

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