The land of too much

american abundance and the paradox of poverty

The Land of Too Much presents a simple but powerful hypothesis that addresses three questions: Why does the United States have more poverty than any other developed country? Why did it experience an attack on state intervention starting in the 1980s, known today as the ...

Doing capitalism in the innovation economy

The innovation economy begins with discovery and culminates in speculation. Over some 250 years, economic growth has been driven by successive processes of trial and error: upstream exercises in research and invention and downstream experiments in exploiting the new economic space opened by innovation. Drawing ...

Adiós, capitalismo

15M-2031

El capitalismo no funciona: es socialmente injusto, políticamente antidemocrático, ecológicamente insostenible y estructuralmente violento. Pero, ¿existe una alternativa? El autor de Adiós, capitalismo. 15M-2031 piensa que sí, y por esta razón propone un esbozo de modelo social no capitalista que llama Ecodemocracia cooperativa, basado en ...

Capitalist development and democracy

It is a commonplace claim of Western political discourse that capitalist development and democracy go hand in hand. Cross-national statistical research on political democracy supports this claim. By contrast, comparative historical studies carried out within a political economy approach argue that economic development was and ...

Siria

guerra, clanes, Lawrence. El capitalismo de las familias y el desafío de la rebelión en el mundo Árabe-Musulmán

Este libro nos acercan a esa realidad intrincada y omnipresente en el mundo árabo-musulmán, una aproximación necesaria para entender la Siria desangrada por la guerra civil de hoy y la que mañana alumbrará, con todas sus contradicciones y conflictos, una nueva Primavera Árabe triunfante. Desde ...

El Decapital

tratado sobre el divino consumo

Mordaz sátira del mundo decapitado, de ese mundo ¿ficticio? donde hombres y mujeres han perdido su cabeza para ser remplazadas por bolsas de la compra. Esta sátira en tres actos recorre a través de breves historias los mandamientos, las parábolas del mundo decapitalista y sus ...

Ecosocialismo

la alternativa radical a la catástrofe ecológica capitalista

¿Qué es el ecosocialismo? Es una corriente de pensamiento y acción ecológica que hace suyos los fundamentos del marxismo pero eliminando sus escorias productivistas. La lógica del mercado y del beneficio es incompatible con las necesidades de salvaguarda del entorno natural. Los ecosocialistas critican la ...

Chavs

la demonización de la clase obrera

En la Gran Bretaña actual, la clase trabajadora se ha convertido en objeto de miedo y escarnio. Desde la Vicky Pollard de Little Britain a la demonización de Jade Goody, los medios de comunicación y los políticos desechan por irresponsable, delincuente e ignorante a un ...

The making of global capitalism

the political economy of american empire

Panitch and Gindin's monumental study offers a significant rethinking of the development of global capitalism. Transcending classical theories of interimperialist rivalry and the false dichotomy between states and markets in the neoliberal era, this book produces an exceptionally rich account of postwar global capitalism ...

Crisis of capitalism

compendium of applied economics

This title is a compendium of a comprehensive treatise of applied economics published in Italian by Jaca Books in 2007. The global economy is taken as the starting point for this unique analysis of the dynamics of capitalist development. Updated and expanded with a new ...

Public capitalism

the political authority of corporate executives

In modern capitalist societies, the executives of large, profit-seeking corporations have the power to shape the collective life of the communities, local and global, in which they operate. Corporate executives issue directives to employees, who are normally prepared to comply with them, and impose penalties ...

Better capitalism

renewing the entrepreneurial strenght of the american economy

In the wake of the Great Recession and America's listless recovery from it, economists, policymakers, and media pundits have argued at length about what has gone wrong with the American capitalist system. Even so, few constructive remedies have emerged. This welcome book cuts through ...

The road to freedom

how to win the fight for free enterprise

Entrepreneurship, personal responsibility, and upward mobility: These traditions are at the heart of the free enterprise system, and have long been central to America's exceptional culture. In recent years, however, policymakers have dramatically weakened these traditions--by exploding the size of government, propping up their ...

The making of the indebted man

The debtor-creditor relation, which is at the heart of this book, sharpens mechanisms of exploitation and domination indiscriminately, since, in it, there is no distinction between workers and the unemployed, consumers and producers, working and non-working populations, between retirees and welfare recipients. They are all ...

Freaks of fortune

the emerging world of capitalism and risk in America

Until the early nineteenth century, "risk" was a specialized term: it was the commodity exchanged in a marine insurance contract. Freaks of Fortune tells the story of how the modern concept of risk emerged in the United States. Born on the high seas, risk migrated ...

Imperialismo

la fase superior del capitalismo

Lenin elaboró este texto marxista enormemente influyente para explicar en detalle los defectos inevitables y el poder destructivo del capitalismo, que conduciría ineludiblemente al imperialismo, a los monopolios y al colonialismo. Profetizó que los países del Tercer Mundo usados meramente como mano de obra capitalista ...

An introduction to Capitalism

Embedded in an historical account of the development of U.S. capitalism up to the present day, this book gives the reader a thorough description of the major aspects of the U.S. economy, as well as a theoretical understanding of the overall economy. A ...

En el acuario de Facebook

el resistible ascenso del anarco-capitalismo

Facebook se aproxima a los 1.000 millones de usuarios. Es un extraordinario dispositivo capaz de aprovechar cada movimiento que acontezca en su plataforma. FB es la encarnación del despliegue de la informática de la dominación aplicada a la ingeniería social. FB ha operado en ...

L'impossible capitalisme vert

D'un côté, 3 milliards de gens vivent dans des conditions indignes de l'humanité. Enseignement, santé, énergie, eau, alimentation, mobilité, logement : individuellement leurs besoins sont modestes mais, au total, ils sont énormes. Comment les satisfaire sans augmenter la production ? De l'autre, deux cents ...

Capital

Pepys Road: an ordinary street in the Capital. Each house has seen its fair share of first steps and last breaths, and plenty of laughter in between. Today, through each letterbox along this ordinary street drops a card with a simple message: We Want What ...