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 ...

The pricing of progress

Eeonomic indicators and the capitalization of american life

How did Americans come to quantify their society's well-being in units of money? In our GDP-run world, prices are the measure of not only goods and commodities but our environment, communities, nation, even self-worth. Eli Cook shows how, and why, we moderns lost sight ...

The paradox of vulnerability

states, nationalism and financial crisis

Why are small and culturally homogeneous nation-states in the advanced capitalist world so prosperous? Examining how Denmark, Ireland, and Switzerland managed the 2008 financial crisis, The Paradox of Vulnerability shows that this is not an accident. John Campbell and John Hall argue that a prolonged ...

Malas prácticas de los fondos buitre en España

y cómo tutelar los derechos del deudor en las cesiones de crédito

Hablar de los “Fondos Buitre” es hablar de la mala fe, del abuso del derecho y del fraude de ley en grados superlativos. Este libro evidencia las infinitas malas prácticas de este tipo de entidades financieras, cuyos fondos tienen su origen en actividades, muchas de ...

Ser posmoderno

dilemas culturales del capitalismo financiero

El autor analiza el modelo de producción cultural contemporánea denominado «posmodernidad» que actúa bajo las premisas del capitalismo financiero. Así, algunas de las manifestaciones más sobresalientes de esta fase de posmodernidad pasan por el beneficio instaurado como principio único de la economía, la implantación de ...

How much inequality is fair?

mathematical principles of a moral, optimal, and stable capitalist society

Many in the United States feel that the nation’s current level of economic inequality is unfair and that capitalism is not working for 90% of the population. Yet some inequality is inevitable. The question is: What level of inequality is fair? Mainstream economics has ...

Reforzar los cimientos

En Reforzar los cimientos se reúne la obra ensayística que Ngugi wa Thiong'o ha escrito durante tres décadas, una muestra del poder del pensamiento de un hombre que nunca ha renunciado a su lucha. Durante más de sesenta años, Ngugi wa Thiong'o ha ...

Las contradicciones culturales del capitalismo en el siglo XXI

una respuesta a Daniel Bell

El siglo XXI se ha iniciado con contradicciones y paradojas. La globalización económica genera una desigualdad imparable, el planeta se ha empequeñecido ante la tecnología y la demanda de recursos, la política parece colapsada sin ser capaz de garantizar el logro de los Derechos Humanos ...