The 1% and the rest of us : a political economy of dominant ownership / / Tim Di Muzio

• Autore: Di Muzio Tim
• Pubblicazione: London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2015; [London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (258 p.)
• Disciplina: 330.16
• Soggetto topico: Wealth; Distribution (Economic theory); Political economy; Sociology & anthropology; International relations
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: The first historically informed, theoretically rich and empirically detailed study of what Occupy has called the 1%.
• Altri titoli varianti: One percent and the rest of us
• Titolo autorizzato: The 1% and the rest of us
• ISBN: 1-350-22291-7; 1-78360-145-0; 1-78360-142-6; 1-78360-144-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910788171603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II