03238nam 2200649 a 450 991045741140332120200520144314.01-283-31058-9978661331058390-04-20429-610.1163/9789004204294(CKB)2550000000058127(EBL)793267(OCoLC)758336000(SSID)ssj0000554685(PQKBManifestationID)11392541(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000554685(PQKBWorkID)10513705(PQKB)11091539(MiAaPQ)EBC793267(nllekb)BRILL9789004204294(PPN)170756947sudoc(PPN)174548427(Au-PeEL)EBL793267(CaPaEBR)ebr10506432(CaONFJC)MIL331058(EXLCZ)99255000000005812720110715d2011 uy 0engurun| uuuuatxtccrThe entropy of capitalism[electronic resource] /by Robert BielLeiden ;Boston Brill20111 online resource (401 p.)Studies in critical social sciences,1573-4234 ;v. 39Description based upon print version of record.90-04-20430-X Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Understanding the Limits and Decay of the Capitalist Mode of Production -- Capitalism as an Adaptive System -- The ‘Systemic Turn’ in Capitalist Political Economy -- The Era of Feedback from Entropy -- Militarism and State Terrorism as a Response to Crisis -- Organisation of the Twenty-First Century International System -- Contradictions in the Contemporary Phase of Imperialist Governance, and the Forces for Change within It -- References -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.The project of applying general systems theory to social sciences is crucial in today’s crisis when social and ecological systems clash. This book concretely demonstrates the necessity of a Marxist approach to this challenge, notably in asserting agency (struggle) as against determinism. It similarly shows how Marxism can be reinvigorated from a systems perspective. Drawing on his experience in both international systems and low-input agriculture, Biel explores the interaction of social and physical systems, using the conceptual tools of thermodynamics and information. He reveals the early twenty-first century as a period when capitalism starts parasitising on the chaos it itself creates, notably in the link between the two sides of imperialism: militarism (the ‘war on terror’) and speculative finance capital.Studies in critical social sciences ;v. 39.CapitalismMarxian economicsElectronic books.Capitalism.Marxian economics.330.12/2Biel Robert1945-936545MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457411403321The entropy of capitalism2109619UNINA