Capital as power : a study of order and creorder / / Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler
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| Autore: |
Nitzan Jonathan
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| Titolo: |
Capital as power : a study of order and creorder / / Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler
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| Pubblicazione: | Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, NY, : Routledge, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (465 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 332.04 |
| 332/.04 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Capitalism |
| Power (Social sciences) | |
| Altri autori: |
BichlerShimshon
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1 Why write a book about capital?; Part I: Dilemmas of political economy; 2 The dual worlds; 3 Power; 4 Deflections of power; Part II: The enigma of capital; 5 Neoclassical parables; 6 The Marxist entanglement I: Values and prices; 7 The Marxist entanglement II: Who is productive, who is not?; 8 Accumulation of what?; Part III: Capitalization; 9 Capitalization: A brief anthropology; 10 Capitalization: Fiction, mirror or distortion?; 11 Capitalization: Elementary particles; Part IV: Bringing power back in |
| 12 Accumulation and sabotage13 The capitalist mode of power; Part V: Accumulation of power; 14 Differential accumulation and dominant capital; 15 Breadth; 16 Depth; 17 Differential accumulation: Past and future; References; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Conventional theories of capitalism are mired in a deep crisis: after centuries of debate, they are still unable to tell us what capital is. Liberals and Marxists both think of capital as an 'economic' entity that they count in universal units of 'utils' or 'abstract labour', respectively. But these units are totally fictitious. Nobody has ever been able to observe or measure them, and for a good reason: they don't exist. Since liberalism and Marxism depend on these non-existing units, their theories hang in suspension. They cannot explain the process that matters most - the accumulation of |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Capital as power |
| ISBN: | 1-134-02230-1 |
| 1-282-15145-2 | |
| 9786612151453 | |
| 0-203-87632-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9911038528803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
RIPE series in global political economy.