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Autore |
Di Muzio Tim |
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The 1% and the rest of us : a political economy of dominant ownership / / Tim Di Muzio |
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London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2015 |
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[London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2021 |
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ISBN |
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1-350-22291-7 |
1-78360-145-0 |
1-78360-142-6 |
1-78360-144-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (258 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Wealth |
Distribution (Economic theory) |
Political economy |
Sociology & anthropology |
International relations |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Cover; About the Author; Title Page; Copyright ; Contents ; Tables and Figures ; Dedication ; Introduction: Towards a Global Political Economy of the 1% ; Political Economy and the Elite ; The Main Arguments and Structure of the Book ; 1: The Unusual Suspects: Identifying the Global 1%; The Professor and the Prince ; Income and Wealth: A Primer; A Taxonomy of the Global 1% ; Holding Wealth ; The Geography of the 1% ; Billionaireville ; The Rest of Us ; 2: Capital as Power and the 1% ; A Brief Genealogy of the Term 'Capital' ; Corporate America and the Rise of Capitalisation. |
Capital as Power The Capitalist Mode of Power ; The Architecture of Capitalisation ; 3: Wealth, Money and Power ; A Brief History of Wealth before Political Economy ; Mercantilism ; The Birth of Classical Political Economy ; The General Theory of Money, Energy and Power ; 4: Differential Consumption: The Rise of Plutonomy; The Global Plutonomy ; Conspicuous Consumption in the First Gilded Age ; |
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Differential Consumption in the New Gilded Age ; 'The Rich are Destroying the Earth' ; 5: Society versus the Superman Theory of Wealth; From Hobbes to Locke's Theory of Ownership. |
Rousseau, Bentham and Mainstream Economics Veblen's Political Economy ; Unjust Deserts ; The Distribution of Wealth and Capital as Power ; 6: The Party of the 99%: Resistance and Future Prospects; Occupy in Context ; Five Reasons Why Present Trends Will Likely Continue ; Ten Priorities ; Creativity, Power and the Meaning of Life ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index ; Back Cover. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The first historically informed, theoretically rich and empirically detailed study of what Occupy has called the 1%. |
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