The passions and the interests

political arguments for capitalism before its triumph

In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pursuit of material interests - so long condemned as the deadly sin of avarice - was assigned the role of containing the ...

Ego

las trampas del juego capitalista

Vivimos en un estado permanente de subasta. Toda nuestra biografía, los logros conseguidos, nuestros sentimientos… todo se evalúa en un constante “me gusta”. Los modelos mentales económicos han conquistado al resto de ciencias sociales, y la absurda idea de que “el ser humano es egoísta ...

El cambio social en la era de la incertidumbre

una reflexión sobre teoría social

Los problemas surgidos en las últimas décadas en las democracias occidentales proporcionan suficientes argumentos como para caracterizar la época que estamos viviendo como era de la incertidumbre. Las teorías son importantes para explicar la realidad y para comprender los comportamientos sociales. A pesar de la ...

Et le marché devint roi

essai sur l'éthique du capitalisme

Le marché est-il utile ? Est-il légitime ? Est-il nécessaire ? Ces questions occupent aujourd’hui une telle place dans le débat public qu’elles semblent nées de la crise actuelle ; et pourtant, elles n’ont cessé d’être posées depuis l’apparition des premiers échanges marchands. D ...

Summary of the thesis

Essays on financial stability and corporate finance

Capital wars

the new East-West challenge for entrepreneurial leadership and economic

Just a few years is all it took for the debt crisis to bring down the mighty 'twin towers' of American and European capitalism and undo two centuries of Western dominance on the world's economic and political stage. Daniel Pinto offers a unique insight ...

Realizing hope

life beyond capitalism

Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism. Michael Albert would disagree. Realizing Hope offers a speculative vision of a future beyond capitalism - an alternative to the exploitation of human labour, the ...

The implosion of capitalism

In The Implosion of Capitalism world-renowned political economist Samir Amin connects the key events of our times - financial crisis, Eurozone implosion, the emerging BRIC nations and the rise of political Islam - identifying them as symptoms of a profound systemic crisis. In light of these major ...

Una teoría sobre el capitalismo global

producción, clase y Estado en un mundo transnacional

Presenta una teoría de la globalización fundamentada en el surgimiento de una clase capitalista transnacional y un estado transnacional. Robinson demuestra cómo la movilidad de capital le ha permitido a este reorganizar los procesos productivos a lo ancho del mundo de acuerdo con una amplia ...

The poverty of capitalism

economic meltdown and the struggle for what comes next

Capitalist growth is widely heralded as the only answer to the crisis still sweeping the global economy. Yet the era of corporate globalisation has been defined by unprecedented levels of inequality and environmental degradation. A return to capitalist growth threatens to exacerbate these problems, not ...

Free market revolution

how Ayn Rand's ideas can end big government

Already a National Bestseller, in Free Market Revolution, the keepers of Ayn Rand's legacy argue that the answer to our current economic woes lies not in "trickle-down government" but in Rand's inspiring philosophy of capitalism and self-interest - a philosophy that more and more ...

Nature for sale

the commons versus commodities

Nature for Sale uncovers the rich heritage of common ownership which existed before the dominance of capitalist property relations. Giovanna Ricoveri argues that the subsistence commons of the past can be reinvented today to provide an alternative to the current destructive economic order. Ricoveri outlines ...

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 ...