World in crisis

a global analysis of marx's Law of profitability

Most mainstream economists view capitalism's periodic breakdowns are nothing more than temporary aberrations from another wise unbroken path toward prosperity. For Marxists, this fundamental flaw has long been acknowledged as a central feature of the free market system. This groundbreaking volume brings together Marxist ...

The future of capitalism

facing the new anxieties

From world-renowned economist Paul Collier, a candid diagnosis of the failures of capitalism and a pragmatic and realistic vision for how we can repair it. Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of the United States and other Western societies: thriving cities versus rural ...

The power of capitalism

a journey through recent history across five continents

"The market has failed, we need more government intervention." That's the mantra politicians, the media, and intellectuals have been reiterating ever since the outbreak of the 2008 financial crisis. By taking the reader on a journey across continents and through recent history, Rainer Zitelmann ...

Capitalism in America

a history

'An inspiring, rip-roaring read - like the astonishing story it describes' Liam Halligan, Daily Telegraph Where does prosperity come from, and how does it spread through a society? What role does innovation play in creating prosperity and why do some eras see the fruits of innovation ...

Capitalism without capital

the rise of the intangible economy

Early in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design, branding, and software, than in tangible assets, like machinery, buildings, and computers. For all sorts of businesses, the ability ...

La clase trabajadora

¿sujeto de cambio en el siglo XXI?

La crisis económica que sacude el mundo desde 2008 y sus respuestas sociales a lo largo del planeta han demostrado la necesidad política de contar con una clase trabajadora huérfana del proceso de cambio, cuyos problemas raras veces aparecieron en los debates televisivos o en ...

The types of economic policies under capitalism

Kozo Uno is widely recognised as one of the most important Marxist economists of the 20th century, and yet most of his work remains untranslated and thus unavailable to the Anglo-Saxon world. This English language edition of his influential Keizai-Seisakuron introduces Uno's argument for ...

Political capitalism

how economic and political power is made and maintained

Problems associated with cronyism, corporatism, and policies that favor the elite over the masses have received increasing attention in recent years. Political Capitalism explains that what people often view as the result of corruption and unethical behavior are symptoms of a distinct system of political ...

Overripe economy

American capitalism and the crisis of democracy

Capitalism is in crisis. Overripe Economy uses a historical view to explain how we got here and why. Taking readers through the history of American capitalism--from the ruthless competition of the nineteenth century to the maturation of industrial capitalism in the early part of the ...

Capitalism

a conversation in critical theory

In this important new book, Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi take a fresh look at the big questions surrounding the peculiar social form known as “capitalism,” upending many of our commonly held assumptions about what capitalism is and how to subject it to critique. They ...

City of debtors

a century of fringe finance

Since the rise of the small-sum lending industry in the 1890s, people on the lowest rungs of the economic ladder in the United States have been asked to pay the greatest price for credit. Again and again, Americans have asked why the most fragile borrowers ...

Capitalismo Big Tech

¿Welfare o neofeudalismo digital?

Las grandes empresas tecnológicas se encuentran en una posición envidiable: durante casi dos décadas han utilizado las más extravagantes fórmulas de extracción de datos a bajo precio, y en este momento pocas instituciones, incluidas las gubernamentales, pueden competir con ellas. Paradójicamente, han recibido numerosas ayudas ...

Marx after Marx

history and time in the expansion of capitalism

This book deprovincializes Marx and the West's cultural turn by returning to the theorist's earlier explanations of capital's origins and development, which followed a trajectory beyond Euro-America to Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Marx's expansive view shows how local circumstances, time ...

Narcocapitalism

life in the Age of Anaesthesia

What do the invention of anaesthetics in the middle of the 19th century, the Nazis' use of cocaine, and the development of Prozac have in common? The answer is that they're all products of the same logic that defines our contemporary era: "the age ...

Do we need economic inequality?

Although economic inequality provokes widespread disquiet, its supposed necessity is rarely questioned. At best, a basic level of inequality is seen as a necessary evil. At worst, it is seen as insufficient to encourage aspiration, hard work and investment - a refrain sometimes used to advocate ...

Hacer negocios con palabras

el fracaso del lenguaje como clave para entender el capitalismo financiero

Los críticos del capitalismo financiero lo presentan como una bestia negra y destructora, que genera ganancias extraordinarias mientras toda la estructura de la "economía real" (dueños del capital, trabajadores, mercancías, salarios) pasa a segundo plano. Y sin embargo, lo sepamos o no, esa bestia negra ...

Capitalism without capital

the rise of the intangible economy

The first comprehensive account of the growing dominance of the intangible economy Early in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design, branding, R&D, and software, than in ...

Explotación y transformación

análisis crítico del capitalismo y sus alternativas en el siglo XXI

En su permanente transmutación, el capitalismo desarrolla nuevas formas de apropiarse de los recursos y de las riquezas que se producen con ellas. Esto conlleva la necesidad de repensar y ampliar el concepto clásico de la explotación. Pienso que deberían considerarse e integrarse sistémicamente cuatro ...

Is capitalism obsolete?

a journey through alternative economic systems

Giacomo Corneo presents a refreshingly antidogmatic review of economic systems, in the form of a fictional dialogue between a daughter indignant about economic injustice and her father, a professor of economics. They tour hypothetical systems in which production and consumption obey noncapitalistic rules and test ...

The rise and fall of neoliberal capitalism

“Whereas [others] suggest that the downfall of the postwar system in Europe and the United States is the result of the triumph of ideas, Kotz argues persuasively that it is actually the result of the exercise of power by those who benefit from the capitalist ...