The Death of Homo Economicus: Work, Debt and the Myth of Endless Accumulation

Love it, though you do feel angry as you read. Well written (few typos) & gets the point across well.

If you want to understand more the state of our working society, read this book.

Very good read.

No problems!!

The radio interview with the author that prompted me to buy this showed a very different tone so the somewhat strident and very, very repetitive style of this book came as a surprise. I have left it for a while because it's hard work wading through the repetitions before there's anything new and thought-provoking. Bearing in mind I mostly agree with the author, it's pretty faint praise.

Would use again

I bought this book having read a review in a newspaper by a reviewer whose columns I usually like. The first couple of chapters were good: a dissection and criticism of neoliberal economics that made sense to me, and echoed much that I had been reading in that same newspaper. But after that, it degenerates (as another reviewer says) into a strident and repetitive rant, which reminded me sometimes of the Sokal affair: there were whole sentences that were syntactically sound, but to me they made no sense. I sometimes got to the bottom of a page not having a clue of what the page was about. What is "capitalism's ontological precedence"? At one point, the author quotes Oscar Wilde's "price of everything and value of nothing". He is right to do so, but little of the last 5 chapters adds much to the sentiment, and left me with no answer at all as to what we might be able to do about the 1%-99% divide, the gig economy, the slow dissolution of civic society, and all the other ills that flow from what Fleming terms wreckage economics.

Like other anti-capitalist books, I have taken up the general message and so I will not buy this book. I encourage as many people as possible to do the same! Terry Eagleton had such an impact on me with his pro-communist views that I am encouraging everyone: never buy his books! The same applies to this book. Do not buy it. If you do buy it, you are disrespecting its essential message.

This book is gripping, informative and frightening. For people who have known instinctively that things in western societies just aren’t working out for ordinary people, and who fear for the futures of their children, reading this is a must. The author also demystifies much of the current economics blather that castes a fog over much of what we need to know.

I've been very interested in the idea of economic man, and found many of Fleming's arguments to be quite good and, in some spots, insightful. I was willing to overlook the leftward tone, to get to the ideas. But eventually, its just tiresome. The undisguised leftism eventually starts to grate on the senses. Its not even edgy, or entertaining leftism. Its more boomer trope stuff. Complaining about George W. Bush, Tony Blair, Trump and "evil CEOs." It started to feel like Joy Reid or some other low IQ talking head co-wrote it.

Un libro excelente. Esperaré la versión en español y creo que compraré la versión impresa.

It’s a good book but need to do my own research to understand fully. It’s expanding my knowledge and forcing me to learn new terms and concepts.

This book is very realistic --and, I should add, scary-- look at several issues of our time. It makes us realize that the présent is not pleasant; however, the future is really horrifying. Especially the younger générations who are anxiously looking at the coming years and décades, will not find too much comfort and hope after reading it.