LEADER 04337nam 22006135 450 001 9910865247403321 005 20250808085139.0 010 $a9783031577543$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031577536 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-57754-3 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31360185 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31360185 035 $a(CKB)32213022900041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-57754-3 035 $a(EXLCZ)9932213022900041 100 $a20240601d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCapitalism in the Age of Catastrophe $eThe Newest Developments of Financial Capital in Times of Polycrisis /$fby Achim Szepanski 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (352 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Insights into Apocalypse Economics,$x2523-8116 311 08$aPrint version: Szepanski, Achim Capitalism in the Age of Catastrophe Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2024 9783031577536 327 $a1 The Ecstatic of the Excess in Bataille, Baudrillard, and Marx -- 2 Overaccumulation and Crisis -- 3 The Hypertrophy of the Excess: Speculative Capital and Derivatives -- 4 The Transformation of the Shareholder Concept and the New Asset Managers -- 5 Financial Capital. Leverage Power and Financial Infrastructure -- 6 The Financial Crisis as a Temporal Crash of the Excess -- 7 State and Financial Market -- 8 Central Banks as Crisis Actors of the Excess.-9 The Phenomenon of Stagflation -- 10 Debt as a Phenomenon of the Excess -- 11 Finance, World Market, and Imperialism -- 12 The Capitalization of Nature -- 13 The Capitalocene and the Fossil Capital (Overpollution) -- 14 The ecstasy of Information: Big Tech and Platforms -- 15 The Surplus Population. 330 $aThis book analyses contemporary and future conditions of global finance and capitalism in an age of catastrophe. It illuminates the links between various crises that have beset the world economy in recent decades and sets these in philosophical context, drawing on the work of Marx, Bataille and Baudrillard to forge new understandings of the impact of capitalist hegemony on society and nature. The book introduces the concept of the ?over? as a lens through which to reflect on capitalist excess and its negative consequences, such as over-accumulation of goods, over-pollution of the environment, and over-speculation of capital. In particular, it shines a light on the trends of financialization and stagflation, with chapters examining increasingly embedded features of the world economy such as hyper-inflation, the dominance of advanced economy central banks, the phenomenon of repurchase agreements, new asset managers for the ultra-wealthy and index funds to show how capitalist structures continue to drive inequality, ecological breakdown, and geopolitical precarity on a global scale. With a rigorous philosophical and theoretical framework, this book will appeal to political economists, Marxist economists and scholars interested in theories of capitalism. Achim Szepanski is the founder of the Electronic Music Labels Force Inc., and Mille Plateaux. His research focuses on speculative capital. He published Financial Capital in the 21st Century (Palgrave) and is the Editor of the online magazine NON. 410 0$aPalgrave Insights into Apocalypse Economics,$x2523-8116 606 $aEconomics 606 $aFinance 606 $aMarxian economics 606 $aInternational finance 606 $aPolitical Economy and Economic Systems 606 $aFinancial Economics 606 $aMarxist Economics 606 $aInternational Finance 615 0$aEconomics. 615 0$aFinance. 615 0$aMarxian economics. 615 0$aInternational finance. 615 14$aPolitical Economy and Economic Systems. 615 24$aFinancial Economics. 615 24$aMarxist Economics. 615 24$aInternational Finance. 676 $a330.122 700 $aSzepanski$b Achim$01259666 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910865247403321 996 $aCapitalism in the Age of Catastrophe$94168635 997 $aUNINA