Inequality and the 1%

Since the great recession hit in 2008, the 1% has only grown richer while the rest find life increasingly tough. The gap between the haves and the have-nots has turned into a chasm. While the rich have found new ways of protecting their wealth, everyone ...

Reinventing capitalism in the age of big data

A provocative look at how data is reinventing the market: where big firms will no longer be dominant. Markets have long been acknowledged to be a superior mechanism for managing resources but until the advent of big data, they largely functioned better in theory than ...

¿Alguien dijo crisis del marxismo?

Axel Honneth y Slavoj Zizek y las nuevas teorías críticas de la sociedad

Este libro trata de las teorías críticas de la sociedad que han irrumpido en la escena intelectual en respuesta a la última crisis del marxismo. En una primera parte de análisis contextual, se examina la cuestión de la crisis, los principales desafíos planteados al marxismo ...

Communists constructing capitalism

state, market, and the Party in China’s financial reform

Why has China's 'transition' to a market economy not catalysed corresponding political transformation? In an era of deepening synergy between authoritarian politics and capitalist economics, this book offers a novel perspective on this central dilemma of contemporary Chinese development, shedding light on how the ...

Capitalismo

crisis y reinvención

Prólogo a la Segunda edición: Ángel Gurría Secretario General de la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económico (OCDE) Presentación a la Primera edición: Enrique V. Iglesias Primer Secretario General Iberoamericano. Ex Presidente del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID) Prólogo a la Primera Edición ...

La reinvención de la economía

el capitalismo en la era del big data

BlaBlaCar, Amazon, Uber, eBay, Airbnb... Las nuevas empresas solo manejan datos (sobre el producto, los usuarios, los vendedores) y de ese modo han cambiado nuestra forma de ver el transporte, el alojamiento, la comida o el consumo en general. En definitiva, han transformado el mercado ...

Come on!

capitalismo, cortoplacismo, población y destrucción del planeta

Las tendencias globales actuales no son sostenibles. Así lo ha venido advirtiendo durante largo tiempo el Club de Roma, uno de los laboratorios de ideas más respetados y vibrantes del mundo. Cuando se publicó, hace casi cincuenta años, Los límites del crecimiento, su llamada de ...

Capitalismo

crimen perfecto o emancipación

Hay que seguir apostando por encontrar una apertura en el horizonte de la Emancipación, anhelando que el pensamiento materialista del siglo XXI, en forma de Otra izquierda, pueda encontrar un lugar para hacer su duelo, despidiéndose definitivamente de la metafísica de la Revolución y propiciando ...

People, power, and profits

progressive capitalism for an age of discontent

From Nobel Prize-winning economist and bestselling author Joseph Stiglitz, this account of the dangers of free market fundamentalism reveals what has gone so wrong, but also shows us a way out. We all have the sense that our economy tilts toward big business, but as ...

Capitalismo, consumo y autenticidad

las emociones como mercancía

Este libro espera arrojar nueva luz sobre los modos en que la economía moral de las relaciones sociales organiza intercambios económicos a través de emociones. También nos ayuda a comprender cómo la economía moldea el tejido de nuestros mundos emocionales de una manera que muestra ...

Will the gig economy prevail?

Increasingly, employees are being falsely treated as 'self-employed.' This phenomenon - the 'gig economy' - is seen as the inevitable shape of things to come. In this book, Colin Crouch takes a step back and questions this logic. He shows how the idea of an employee - a ...

The age of surveillance capitalism

the fight for a human future at the new frontier of power

The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior. Shoshana Zuboff's interdisciplinary breadth and depth enable her to come ...

Democracy and prosperity

reinventing capitalism through a turbulent century

A groundbreaking new historical analysis of how global capitalism and advanced democracies mutually support each other It is a widespread view that democracy and the advanced nation-state are in crisis, weakened by globalization and undermined by global capitalism, in turn explaining rising inequality and mounting ...

La batalla por el paraíso

Puerto Rico y el capitalismo del desastre

Entre los escombros del huracán María, los puertorriqueños y los «Puertopians» multimillonarios están atrapados en una batalla campal para decidir cómo reconstruir la isla. En esta vital y asombrosa investigación, Naomi Klein revela cómo las fuerzas de las políticas del shock y del capitalismo del ...

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 ...