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200 14$aThe entropy of capitalism$b[electronic resource] /$fby Robert Biel
210   $aLeiden ;$aBoston $cBrill$d2011
215   $a1 online resource (401 p.)
225 1 $aStudies in critical social sciences,$x1573-4234 ;$vv. 39
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a90-04-20430-X 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
327   $aPreliminary 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.
330   $aThe project of applying general systems theory to social sciences is crucial in today?s crisis when social and ecological systems clash. This book concretely demonstrates the necessity of a Marxist approach to this challenge, notably in asserting agency (struggle) as against determinism. It similarly shows how Marxism can be reinvigorated from a systems perspective. Drawing on his experience in both international systems and low-input agriculture, Biel explores the interaction of social and physical systems, using the conceptual tools of thermodynamics and information. He reveals the early twenty-first century as a period when capitalism starts parasitising on the chaos it itself creates, notably in the link between the two sides of imperialism: militarism (the ?war on terror?) and speculative finance capital.
410  0$aStudies in critical social sciences ;$vv. 39.
606   $aCapitalism
606   $aMarxian economics
608   $aElectronic books.
615  0$aCapitalism.
615  0$aMarxian economics.
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