Tag: Capitalism

Free Download Wayne Hope, "The Anthropocene, Global Capitalism and Global Futures: Times Out of Joint "
English | ISBN: 303163599X | 2024 | 247 pages | EPUB, PDF | 487 KB + 6 MB
This book seeks to show that the Anthropocene epoch of the earth system has converged with the global epoch of capitalist history. Planetary warming and climate change are, therefore, unfolding rapidly. This enveloping process is driven forward by the mutual ruptures of a deteriorating earth system and fossil based global capitalism, as a fraught socioecological totality. Overlapping crises of time are the net result. They involve, the recurring, myopic volatility of financialised capitalism, the ecological impossibility of sustaining capitalist growth, the spreading arrhythmias of biotic, animal, bird, insect and marine life and the irremediable psychological stresses of climate change anxiety. The time crises of global capitalism originate from certain disjunctures of time associated with carbon extractivism, carbon emission markets and official climate change projections. The book sets out the counter constructions of time necessary to energise the climate justice movement and advance ecosocialist principles.

Free Download Marcel Boyer, "Social Democracy, Capitalism, and Competition: A Manifesto"
English | ISBN: 0228018897 | 2023 | 248 pages | PDF | 1266 KB
Our social democracies and welfare states face economic and governance challenges that threaten their very survival. Against this backdrop, Social Democracy, Capitalism, and Competition argues that a true social democracy requires a clear definition and a refocusing of the roles of the public and private sectors. Using his novel competition-based social democracy and new competition-based capitalism models, Marcel Boyer goes back to the basics. Returning to the foundational characteristics of what social democracy and capitalism are supposed to be, he reimagines how public and social goods and services – such as education, healthcare, and transport infrastructure – can be provided in a way that aligns with citizens’ best interests. Boyer shows how recent decades have witnessed a shift away from competition and competitive processes, toward more bureaucratic control of public and social goods and services and more ironclad protection of state providers against contestation by potentially competitive organizations. This crony capitalism results in loss of purpose, organizational inefficiency, and outcomes that increasingly deviate from their original objectives of social wellbeing. Boyer maintains that productivity gains, economic growth, and prosperity for all actually require a degree of income and wealth inequality. Written with a facility that will appeal to anyone interested in public policy and economic reform, Social Democracy, Capitalism, and Competition is a book all governments should have on their reading list.

Free Download Julia Cagé, "Saving the Media: Capitalism, Crowdfunding, and Democracy"
English | ISBN: 0674659759 | 2016 | 176 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The media are in crisis. Confronted by growing competition and sagging advertising revenue, news operations in print, on radio and TV, and even online are struggling to reinvent themselves. Many have gone under. For too many others, the answer has been to lay off reporters, join conglomerates, and lean more heavily on generic content. The result: in a world awash with information, news organizations provide citizens with less and less in-depth reporting and a narrowing range of viewpoints. If democracy requires an informed citizenry, this trend spells trouble.

Free Download John Bratton, "Capitalism and Classical Social Theory: Fourth Edition"
English | ISBN: 1487556314 | 2024 | 504 pages | PDF | 45 MB
Capitalism and Classical Social Theory offers a rigorous introduction to classical social theory, highlighting the enduring relevance of classical works for understanding the many crises of the contemporary world. This popular theory book introduces students to a selection of classical social thinkers and demonstrates the relevance of the classical canon in contemporary society – a society marked by social inequality, insecurity, transformative AI, and the climate emergency.

Free Download Business and Management in the Age of Intangible Capitalism
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1637427182 | 148 Pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The rise of intangible capitalism is a complex socio-economic phenomenon that has gained momentum in recent years, as 90% of the value of S&P 500 companies consists of intangible assets. The prevalence of intangible capitalism represents a paradigmatic shift, suggesting a departure from conventional business practices for multiple compelling reasons. The change affects fundamental aspects of business, including strategy, competitive advantage, organizational structure, investment practices, marketing approaches, and even business valuations. Furthermore, intangible assets, directly or indirectly, have substantial implications for society and our daily lives.

Free Download Dale Tomich Binghamton University, José Antonio Piqueras, Anthony E. Kaye, "Slavery and Historical Capitalism during the Nineteenth Century"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1498565832 | PDF | pages: 217 | 0.9 mb
This book examines the historiography of nineteenth century slavery from the perspective of the "second slavery." The concept of the second slavery emphasizes the relationship between local histories and world-economic transformations. It breaks with conventional narratives of slavery by emphasizing the expansion of reconfigured slaveries in extensive new zones of commodity production in Brazil, Cuba and the US South as part of world-economic processes of decolonization, industrialization, urbanization, and the creation of mass markets. Thus, slavery was not a moribund institution. Capitalist modernity, liberal ideology, and anti-slavery from above or from below, faced a vigorous foe that operated within the very economic, political, and cultural premises of the changing 19th century world. This perspective offers an original approach to the history of slavery. It has opened up vigorous debates over slavery and anti-slavery, Atlantic history and capitalism.

Free Download Ole Bjerg, "Poker: The Parody of Capitalism"
English | ISBN: 0472051636 | 2011 | 286 pages | AZW3 | 627 KB
Poker is an extraordinary worldwide phenomenon with major social, cultural, and political implications, and Poker: The Parody of Capitalism investigates the game of poker as a cultural expression of significance not unlike art, literature, film, or music. Tracing the history of poker and comparing the evolution of the game to the development of capitalism, Ole Bjerg complicates prevalent notions of "casino capitalism" and correspondingly facile and simplistic comparisons of late capitalism and poker. By employing Slavoj Žižek’s threefold distinction between imaginary-symbolic-real as a philosophical framework to analyze poker and to understand the basic strategies of the game, Bjerg explores the structural characteristics of poker in relation to other games, making a clear distinction between poker and other gambling games of pure chance such as roulette and craps. With its combination of social theory and empirical research,

Free Download Late Capitalism (Verso Classics) by Ernest Mandel
English | July 30, 2024 | ISBN: 1804294756 | True EPUB | 640 pages | 2.9 MB
Late Capitalism is the first major synthesis to have been produced by the contemporary revival of Marxist economics. It represents, in fact, the only systematic attempt so far ever made to combine the general theory of the "laws of motion" of the capitalist mode of production developed by Marx, with the concrete history of capitalism in the twentieth century.

Free Download Ian Klaus, "Forging Capitalism: Rogues, Swindlers, Frauds, and the Rise of Modern Finance "
English | ISBN: 0300181949 | 2014 | 287 pages | AZW3 | 726 KB
A riveting history of raw capitalism that exposes the unscrupulousness at its heart

Free Download Conor Heaney, "Contemporary Capitalism and Mental Health: Rhythms of Everyday Life"
English | ISBN: 1399529935 | 2024 | 328 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Rather than individualising mental health, Conor Heaney takes seriously the notion of a shared mental environment and the importance of theorising everyday life in our endeavours to grasp and transform our everyday experience. Drawing particularly on the work of Félix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze, Bernard Stiegler, and Henri Lefebvre, Heaney develops the idea of rhythmanalysis as an original and interdisciplinary approach to the politics of mental health. He offers both a renewed methodological and philosophical approach to rhythmanalysis (scaping) and deploys it with respect to the relationship between contemporary capitalism and mental health.