03827nam 2200745 450 991082882700332120210311111955.01-350-22291-71-78360-145-01-78360-142-61-78360-144-210.5040/9781350222915(CKB)2670000000600719(EBL)1980702(SSID)ssj0001490923(PQKBManifestationID)11840935(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001490923(PQKBWorkID)11489074(PQKB)11287586(MiAaPQ)EBC1980702(MiAaPQ)EBC4708353(Au-PeEL)EBL1980702(CaPaEBR)ebr11029042(CaONFJC)MIL746107(OCoLC)904437693(CaBNVSL)9781350222915(EXLCZ)99267000000060071920210311h20212015 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrThe 1% and the rest of us a political economy of dominant ownership /Tim Di MuzioLondon, England :Zed Books,2015.[London, England] :Bloomsbury Publishing,20211 online resource (258 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-78360-143-4 1-336-14821-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 ; 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.The first historically informed, theoretically rich and empirically detailed study of what Occupy has called the 1%.One percent and the rest of usWealthDistribution (Economic theory)Political economybicsscSociology & anthropologybicsscInternational relationsbicsscWealth.Distribution (Economic theory)Political economySociology & anthropologyInternational relations330.16Di Muzio Tim863069NCaBNVSLCaBNVSLBOOK9910828827003321The 1% and the rest of us4048347UNINA