Vulture Capitalism

How to Survive in an Age of Corporate Greed

By: Grace Blakeley

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Paperback | 10 October 2025

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*A Foyles Top 10 Read for March and one of Glamour''s Best Books of March*
Longlisted for the inaugural Women''s Prize for Non-Fiction

''A galvanising takedown of neoliberalism''s "free market" logic, one rooted in as much history as it is in current events'' NAOMI KLEIN
''A must-read for anyone keen to put the demos back in democracy'' YANIS VAROUFAKIS

Everything you know about capitalism is wrong.

Free markets aren't really free. Record corporate profits don't trickle down to everyone else. And we aren't empowered to make our own choices - they're made for us every day.

In Vulture Capitalism, acclaimed journalist Grace Blakeley takes on the world's most powerful corporations by showing how the causes of our modern crisis are the intended result of our capitalist system. It's not broken, it's working exactly as planned. From JPMorgan to Boeing, Henry Ford to Richard Nixon, Blakeley shows us exactly where late-stage capitalism has gone wrong.

Searing, explosive and timely, Vulture Capitalism is the book you need to understand what is happening in the world around you - and what you can do to change it.

''Read this book if you want to make fundamental changes to the world'' HA-JOON CHANG
''If you''ve ever wondered why you (and everyone you know) feel so out of control of the world around you, this book will give you the answer'' ASH SARKAR

About the Author

Grace Blakeley is a staff writer at Tribune magazine and author of Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation and The Corona Crash. She previously worked as a research fellow for the Institute for Public Policy Research and as the New Statesman's economic commentator. She appears regularly in the media as a political and economic commentator, including appearances on Question Time, BBC This Week and BBC Breakfast.

Industry Reviews

Vulture Capitalism is a vigorous rejection of the liberal idea that if only some enlightened government were to tweak its policies correctly, democratic capitalism would bring prosperity to all -- Sam Leith * Guardian *

Blakeley recasts capitalist democracies as "system[s] of pervasive unfreedom", a thesis she backs up with excoriating case studies * Vogue *

Demolishes the idea that capitalism is dominated by the "freedom" of the market. Blakeley carefully goes over how businesses plan their own production and states coordinate society for profit * Socialist Worker *

We should not assume that there's just one way to arrange a market economy in a democracy . . . This argument is having a bit of a public moment. The young economist Grace Blakeley's new book Vulture Capitalism makes the case that capitalism as we see it now offers none of the virtues (free enterprise, moral hazard, market discipline) that its PR department claims for it * Spectator *

An insightful takedown of corporate excesses and shady dealings * Irish Independent *

For evocative and transportive nonfiction to educate, inspire and expand your perspective, look no further than Vulture Capitalism, a book that dismantles the modern financial systems of capitalism -- Best New Books of March * Glamour *

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