The entropy of capitalism [[electronic resource] /] / by Robert Biel

• Autore: Biel Robert <1945->
• Pubblicazione: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (401 p.)
• Disciplina: 330.12/2
• Soggetto topico: Capitalism; Marxian economics
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The entropy of capitalism
• ISBN: 1-283-31058-9; 9786613310583; 90-04-20429-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910457411403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in critical social sciences ; ; v. 39.