Capitalism

About: Capitalism is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 27714 publications have been published within this topic receiving 858042 citations.

Political economy discourses of globalization and feminist politics

Abstract: here seems to be general agreement that global capitalism is here to * stay. The rapid integration of the world into one economic space through Ithe internationalization of goods, capital, and money markets is more often than not represented as an inevitable and irreversible phase of capitalist development. The globalization of production and consumption by transnational corporations (with the assistance of intergovernmental organizations such as the World Bank and World Trade Organization [WTO]) is characterized as a force that shapes and transforms all of the economic, political, and cultural forms it encounters. Triumphalist accounts that celebrate the victory of the market over all other economic forms produce such descriptions of the so-called reality of globalization. But so, too, do globalization's critics, who tend to emphasize the dark side of the new world order.

The Social Structures of the Economy, Pierre Bourdieu, Cambridge: Polity Press, 2005

Abstract: This paper is divided into two sections. The first section presents a concise survey of the intellectual itinerary of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu in the French intellectual field. Then, after a short presentation of Bourdieu’s The Social Structures of the Economy , I proceed to a broader discussion of his economic sociology. After a presentation of Bourdieu’s key conceptual contributions, I question some aspects of Bourdieusian sociology with regard to its ambition of historicising the ‘economic field’. I identify the limitations of this historicising project in the extension of the metaphor of the market to virtually all fields of human activities and in a concept of capital which fails to grasp a social relation specific to the historical development of capitalism.

The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy

Abstract: WINNER OF THE 2019 MADAME DE STAEL PRIZE AND THE 2018 LEONTIEF PRIZE FOR ADVANCING THE FRONTIERS OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 Who really creates wealth in our world? And how do we decide the value of what they do? At the heart of today's financial and economic crisis is a problem hiding in plain sight. In modern capitalism, value-extraction is rewarded more highly than value-creation: the productive process that drives a healthy economy and society. From companies driven solely to maximize shareholder value to astronomically high prices of medicines justified through big pharma's 'value pricing', we misidentify taking with making, and have lost sight of what value really means. Once a central plank of economic thought, this concept of value - what it is, why it matters to us - is simply no longer discussed. Yet, argues Mariana Mazzucato in this penetrating and passionate new book, if we are to reform capitalism - radically to transform an increasingly sick system rather than continue feeding it - we urgently need to rethink where wealth comes from. Which activities create it, which extract it, which destroy it? Answers to these questions are key if we want to replace the current parasitic system with a type of capitalism that is more sustainable, more symbiotic - that works for us all. The Value of Everything reigniteS a long-needed debate about the kind of world we really want to live in.

The Politics of Subversion: A Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century

Abstract: Part 1:Paris 1986, 26 November - 10 December the end of the century from the mass worker to the socialized worker - and beyond rom the factory to the ecological machine the world economy of the socialized worker expropriation in mature capitalism the antagonistic production of subjectivity autonomy, from clandestinity to the party. Part 2:letter to Felix Guttari on "social practice' journeys through civil society (in memory of Peter Bruckner) state and class in the phase of real subsumption some notes on the concept of the nuclear state postmodern towards new values?.