Beyond consumer capitalism

media and the limits to imagination

Consumer capitalism dominates our economy, our politics and our culture. Yet there is a growing body of research from a range of disciplines that suggests that consumer capitalism may be past its sell-by date. Beyond Consumer Capitalism begins by showing how, for people in the ...

People over capital

the co-operative alternative to capitalism

Scientists are pointing to increasingly dangerous levels of climate change and habitat destruction, Europe and America are facing their worst economic problems for a generation, and social movements around the world are calling for sweeping reforms. Do co-operatives offer an alternative model of social organisation ...

Anti-capitalism

a beginner's guide

The financial crisis, bank bailouts, and the dash to austerity have breathed new life into protest movements across the globe, and brought anti-capitalist ideas to the mainstream. But what does it mean to be anti-capitalist? And where is anti-capitalism going - if anywhere? Simon Tormey explores ...

The making of global capitalism

the political economy of american Empire

The all-encompassing embrace of world capitalism at the beginning of the twenty-first century was generally attributed to the superiority of competitive markets. Globalization had appeared to be the natural outcome of this unstoppable process. But today, with global markets roiling and increasingly reliant on state ...

Financialization in crisis

The ongoing economic crisis commenced in the sphere of finance, spread to production, and then became a world recession. In this important and timely volume several well-known political economists draw on the insights of Marxist and other heterodox economics to argue that the turmoil of ...

Making capitalism fit for society

El capitalismo contemporáneo

El capitalismo realmente existente ha evolucionado hasta constituir hoy, en palabras de Samir Amin, el capitalismo de los monopolios generalizados. Un sistema que implosiona ante nuestros ojos, y que es visiblemente incapaz de superar sus cada vez mayores contradicciones internas. Incapaz de reformarse, está condenado ...

Capitalism reassessed

Capitalism Reassessed provides a broad view of different types of advanced capitalist economic systems and is based on an empirical analysis of twenty-one OECD nations. The book looks at why capitalism developed in Western Europe rather than elsewhere. It shows the close influences of the ...

Industria cultural, información y capitalismo

Durante las últimas décadas, la globalización y la revolución de las nuevas tecnologías han marcado un antes y un después en las formas de articulación del poder. Se confirma así la hipótesis avanzada por Marx, donde el propio sujeto pasa a ser el capital fijo ...

The pirate organization

lessons from the fringes of capitalism

In this book, Whole Foods Market cofounder John Mackey and professor and Conscious Capitalism, Inc. co-founder Raj Sisodia argue for the inherent good of both business and capitalism. Featuring some of today's best-known companies, they illustrate how these two forces can--and do--work most powerfully ...

The left hemisphere

mapping critical theory today

As the crisis of capitalism unfolds, the need for alternatives is felt ever more intensely - the struggle between radical movements and the forces of reaction will be merciless. A crucial battlefield, where the outcome of the crisis will in part be decided, will be that ...

The cancer stage of capitalism

from the crisis to cure

The Cancer Stage of Capitalism is a modern classic of critical philosophy and political economy, renowned for its depth and comprehensive research. It provides a step by step diagnosis of the continuing economic collapse in the US and Europe and has had an enormous influence ...

La balada de Al Capone

mafia y capitalismo

Ésta es la historia de una ciudad y del mayor de sus mitos: Chicago y Al Capone, los años 20, la guerra de bandas, la corrupción policial, el mercado ilegal del alcohol, el juego y la prostitución. Pero Enzensberger nos recuerda que la sangrienta historia ...

Los financieros

¿destruirán el capitalismo?

¿Es posible evitar una crisis aún más grave que la que casi precipitó en 2008 el derrumbe de la economía estadounidense y del sistema internacional? Con el tiempo, muchos parecen olvidar que los capitalismos sin control de la sociedad van de crisis en crisis. Es ...

Capitalism's last stand?

deglobalization in the age of austerity

Walden Bello is the world's leading no-nonsense revolutionary.' - Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine In this eye-opening and often scathing book, Walden Bello provides a forensic dissection of contemporary capitalism's multiple crises. Trenchant but constructive, Bello's analysis of the collapse of ...

Human capitalism

how economic growth has made us smarter--and more unequal

What explains the growing class divide between the well educated and everybody else? Noted author Brink Lindsey, a senior scholar at the Kauffman Foundation, argues that it's because economic expansion is creating an increasingly complex world in which only a minority with the right ...

The great deformation

the corruption of capitalism in America

The controversial businessman and former Director of the Office of Management and Budget under Ronald Reagan condemns the corruption of capitalism, especially over the last 30 years, sparing no one in his feisty and brilliant depiction of how government and finance has all but ruined ...

Free market revolution

how Ayn Rand's ideas can end big government

A look at how our current crises are caused by too much government, and how Ayn Rand's bold defense of free markets can help us change course. " " The rise of the Tea Party and the 2010 election results revealed that tens of millions of ...

Historia del capitalismo

de 1500 a nuestros días

Tras cinco siglos de expansión y desarrollo, el capitalismo se enfrenta a los retos que le plantea la gran crisis global que azota al mundo. Un capitalismo que ha dejado de ser el efecto de la economía de occidente sobre el resto de países para ...

La utopía capitalista

y otros ensayos

El texto, ingenioso y humorístico, tiene la inconfundible marca chestertoniana. La utopía capitalista y otros ensayos, publicado en 1917 e inédito en español, es un agudo, e irónico análisis del capitalismo que, a pesar del tiempo trascurrido, conserva gran actualidad y vigor. Denuncia el servilismo ...