The 1% and the rest of us : a political economy of dominant ownership / / Tim Di Muzio
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Di Muzio Tim
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| Titolo: |
The 1% and the rest of us : a political economy of dominant ownership / / Tim Di Muzio
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| Pubblicazione: | London : , : Zed Books, , 2015 |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (258 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 339.2 |
| Soggetto topico: | Wealth |
| Distribution (Economic theory) | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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%. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The 1% and the rest of us |
| ISBN: | 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.: | 9910463693803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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