The capitalist mode of power : critical engagements with the power theory of value / / edited by Tim Di Muzio

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910790581203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2014
• ISBN: 1-138-49016-4; 0-203-79876-7; 1-135-10584-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (200 p.)
• Collana: RIPE series in global political economy ; ; 37
• Altri autori (Persone): Di MuzioTim
• Disciplina: 338.5/21
• Soggetti: Capitalism - Political aspects; Capital - Political aspects; Economics - Political aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; The Capitalist Mode of Power; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Glossary; 1 The provocations of capital as power; A brief introduction to capital as power; Part I: the provocation of history; Part II: the provocation of a new theory; Part III: the provocation of critique; Part I The provocation of history; 2 Historicizing capital as power: energy, capitalization and globalized social reproduction; The emergence of capital as power; Fossil fuels, social reproduction and the rise of capital as power; The capitalization-energy-social reproduction nexus and the next great transformationConclusion; Part II The provocation of a new theory; 3 The power of investment banks: surplus absorption or differential capitalization?; Monopoly capital and investment bank power; Finance: surplus absorption?; Capital as power; Investment banks: differential accumulation; Diversified power and neoliberal regulation; Conclusion; 4 NAFTA, investiture and distribution: the power underpinnings of trade and investment liberalization in Canada; Capital as a power institution; Contextualizing trade and investment liberalization in CanadaSome animals are more equal than others; Investment, investitura and ; distribution; The institutional reorganization of power; Conclusion; 5 'A degree of control': corporations and the struggle against South African apartheid; Background: the sullivan principles and the anti-apartheid movement; Differential accumulation as a theoretical and analytical tool; Corporate interest in S.A.: understanding the differential struggle; Divisions within the collective; Constructing control and the differential struggle; Conclusion(s); Appendix; Part III The provocation of critique6 Fighting the power? Struggle and resistance in Capital as Power; Differential accumulation; Conclusion; 7 State and capital: false dichotomy, structural super-determinism and moving beyond; I Situating the state of capital; II Critiquing the state of capital; III Moving beyond: towards a reconceptualization of the state; 8 Differential accumulation and the political economy of power; Accumulation and the logic of capitalist power; An economic conception of power; Finance and the commodification of power; Taking power seriously as a social relation; Conclusion9 From provocation to interrogation: the global political economy of the 1%, exploitation and the unfashionable problematic of 'capital' in IPE; The global political economy of the 1%; Exploitation and the capitalist mode of power; IPE and the unfashionable problematic of 'capital'; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This edited volume offers the first critical engagement with one of the most provocative and controversial theories in political economy: the thesis that capital can be theorized as power and that capital is finance and only finance. The book also includes a detailed introduction to this novel thesis first put forward by Nitzan and Bichler in their Capital as Power.Although endorsing the capital as power argument to varying extents, contributors to this volume agree that a new understanding of capital that radically departs from Marxist and Neoclassical theories cannot be ignored. Offering the