Capitalism And A New Social Order

Author : Joyce Appleby
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1984-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0814705839

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Capitalism and a New Social Order by Joyce Appleby Pdf

Examines the vision of Jeffersonian Republicans and their impact on early American politics In 1800 the Jeffersonian Republicans, decisive victors over what they considered elitist Federalism, seized the potential for change in the new American nation. They infused in it their vision of a society of economically progressive, politically equal, and socially liberated individuals. This book examines the fusion of ideas and circumstances which made possible this triumph of America's first popular political movement. When the Federalists convened in New York to form the "more perfect union" promised by the new United Sates Constitution, they expected to build a strong central government led by the revolutionary members of the old colonial elite. This expectation was dashed by the emergence of a vigorous opposition led by Thomas Jefferson but manned by a new generation of popular politicians: interlopers, émigrés, polemicists—what the Federalists called the "mushroom candidates." They turned the 1790s into an age of passion by raising basic questions about the characters of the American experiment in government. When the Federalists defenders of traditional European notions of order and authority came under attack, they sought to discredit the radical beliefs of the Jeffersonians. Although the ideas that fueled the Jeffersonian opposition came from several strains of liberal and libertarian thought, it was the specific prospect of an expanding commercial agriculture that gave substance to their conviction that Americans might divorce themselves from the precepts of the past. Thus, capitalism figured prominently in the Jeffersonian social vision. Aroused by the Federalists' efforts to bind the nation's wealthy citizens to a strengthened central government, the Jeffersonians unified ordinary men in the southern and middle states, mobilizing on the national level the power of the popular vote. Their triumph in 1800 represented a new sectional alliance as well as a potent fusion of morality and materialism.

Author : Giannēs Mēlios
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 1138036706

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The Origins of Capitalism as a Social System by Giannēs Mēlios Pdf

Capitalism as a social system emerged from the encounter of the "money owner" and the proletarian which shaped a society based on class domination and exploitation. This book focuses on the monetary theory of value and capital developed by Karl Marx and explores the ideas of "primordial profit" and the respective "money owner".

Author : Shoshana Zuboff
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781610395700

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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff Pdf

The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior. In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance capitalism. The stakes could not be higher: a global architecture of behavior modification threatens human nature in the twenty-first century just as industrial capitalism disfigured the natural world in the twentieth. Zuboff vividly brings to life the consequences as surveillance capitalism advances from Silicon Valley into every economic sector. Vast wealth and power are accumulated in ominous new "behavioral futures markets," where predictions about our behavior are bought and sold, and the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new "means of behavioral modification." The threat has shifted from a totalitarian Big Brother state to a ubiquitous digital architecture: a "Big Other" operating in the interests of surveillance capital. Here is the crucible of an unprecedented form of power marked by extreme concentrations of knowledge and free from democratic oversight. Zuboff's comprehensive and moving analysis lays bare the threats to twenty-first century society: a controlled "hive" of total connection that seduces with promises of total certainty for maximum profit -- at the expense of democracy, freedom, and our human future. With little resistance from law or society, surveillance capitalism is on the verge of dominating the social order and shaping the digital future -- if we let it.

Author : Pedro M. Rey-Araujo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05
Category : Social change
ISBN : 0367567229

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Capitalism, Institutions and Social Orders by Pedro M. Rey-Araujo Pdf

Capitalism, Institutions and Social Orders develops a novel political economy approach by establishing a dialogue between the Social Structures of Accumulation (SSA) theory and Ernesto Laclau's post-Marxism theory. Using this synthesis, it provides an in-depth analysis of Spain's recent socio-economic evolution since the early 1990s. The book develops a theoretical framework capable of appraising capitalist dynamics together with their relationship to the institutional environment surrounding and structuring them. This is in order to explore the interrelation between the historical development of the capitalist mode of production, on the one hand, and the various co-existing social processes, social consensuses and political identities, on the other. Contemporary Spain provides an interesting case study: until the onset of the Great Recession, Spain had an impressive macroeconomic record supported by several contradictory social processes, such as a massive real estate bubble, an upsurge in private indebtedness and a deteriorating manufacturing sector. However, the accumulation of internal imbalances during those years led inevitably to the sudden disintegration of this institutional and social environment in the years after 2008, thus resulting into a breakdown of capitalist activity accompanied by widespread social contestation. The book also explores the ensuing political scenario, including the emergence of the 'indignados' movement and the anti-austerity party Podemos. This work is of significant interest to critical political economy and discourse-theory scholars, critical theorists in general, and social scientists concerned with the recent Spanish experience.

Author : Murray E.G. Smith,Jonah Butovsky,Josh J. Watterton
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01T00:00:00Z
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781773634586

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Twilight Capitalism by Murray E.G. Smith,Jonah Butovsky,Josh J. Watterton Pdf

Twenty-first-century capitalism has little more to offer than a menu of despair: pandemics, deepening inequality, worsening depression, runaway climate change, intensifying authoritarianism and escalating militarism. Twilight Capitalism offers a wide-ranging analysis of the origins, implications and scope of the “combined” social crisis of 2020 and beyond. A compelling case is made that Karl Marx’s critical analysis of capitalism, along with his program of class-struggle socialism, is essential to understanding and addressing the most important social, economic and ecological problems of our time.

Author : Daniel Bell
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1996-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0465014992

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The Cultural Contradictions Of Capitalism by Daniel Bell Pdf

With a new afterword by the author, this classic analysis of Western liberal capitalist society contends that capitalism—and the culture it creates—harbors the seeds of its own downfall by creating a need among successful people for personal gratification—a need that corrodes the work ethic that led to their success in the first place. With the end of the Cold War and the emergence of a new world order, this provocative manifesto is more relevant than ever.

Author : Matthew Wizinsky
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780262543569

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Design after Capitalism by Matthew Wizinsky Pdf

How design can transcend the logics, structures, and subjectivities of capitalism: a framework, theoretical grounding, and practical principles. The designed things, experiences, and symbols that we use to perceive, understand, and perform our everyday lives are much more than just props. They directly shape how we live. In Design after Capitalism, Matthew Wizinsky argues that the world of industrial capitalism that gave birth to modern design has been dramatically transformed. Design today needs to reorient itself toward deliberate transitions of everyday politics, social relations, and economies. Looking at design through the lens of political economy, Wizinsky calls for the field to transcend the logics, structures, and subjectivities of capitalism—to combine design entrepreneurship with social empowerment in order to facilitate new ways of producing those things, symbols, and experiences that make up everyday life. After analyzing the parallel histories of capitalism and design, Wizinsky offers some historical examples of anticapitalist, noncapitalist, and postcapitalist models of design practice. These range from the British Arts and Crafts movement of the nineteenth century to contemporary practices of growing furniture or biotextiles and automated forms of production. Drawing on insights from sociology, philosophy, economics, political science, history, environmental and sustainability studies, and critical theory—fields not usually seen as central to design—he lays out core principles for postcapitalist design; offers strategies for applying these principles to the three layers of project, practice, and discipline; and provides a set of practical guidelines for designers to use as a starting point. The work of postcapitalist design can start today, Wizinsky says—with the next project.

Author : Paul A. Baran
Publisher : Monthly Review Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1966-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0853450730

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Monopoly Capital by Paul A. Baran Pdf

This landmark text by Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy is a classic of twentieth-century radical thought, a hugely influential book that continues to shape our understanding of modern capitalism. “This book… deals with a vital area of economics, has a unique approach, is stimulating and well written. It represents the first serious attempt to extend Marx’s model of competitive capitalism to the new conditions of monopoly capitalism.” — Howard J. Sherman, American Economic Review

Author : Carsten Freitag
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political science
ISBN : 9783640885602

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Zu Joyce Appleby: "Capitalism and a New Social Order" by Carsten Freitag Pdf

Rezension / Literaturbericht aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Politik - Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte, Note: 1,0, Helmut-Schmidt-Universität - Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg (Institut für Politikwissenschaft), 2 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Dieser Literaturbericht beschäftigt sich mit dem Buch "Capitalism and a New Social Order" von Joyce Appleby. Es handelt sich dabei um die vier sogenannten "Phelps"1 Vorlesungen die 1982 gehalten wurden. Die hier verwendete Ausgabe ist 1984 im Verlag der New York University erschienen. Joyce Appleby war von 1981 bis 2001 Professorin für Geschichte an der Universität von Los Angeles. Sie beschäftigte sich mit der frühen modernen Periode Englands, Frankreichs und Amerikas. Ihr Schwerpunkt lag dabei auf Fragen, die liberale Werte und Institutionen betrafen.2 Die vorliegende wissenschaftliche Untersuchung befasst sich mit diesem Themenbereich. Die Autorin betrachtet das politische Amerika im Zeitraum von 1790 bis 1800. Im Mittelpunkt der Analyse steht die liberale Bewegung der Republikaner, deren Leitfigur Thomas Jefferson war. Diese Bewegung hatte neue Ideen bezüglich der Werte, der Gesellschaft und des wirtschaftlichen Systems. Ihre Ziele waren die freie Entfaltung des Individuums, politische Mitbestimmung und ein kapitalistisches Wirtschaftssystem. Die herrschende Gruppe der Föderalisten stand in der Tradition der englischen Aristokratie. Sie hatten eine starke Zentralregierung geschaffen, die von der föderalistischen Elite geleitet wurde. Die Republikaner jedoch kritisierten den Aufbau eines britisch-aristokratischen Herrschaftssystems in Amerika. So kam es zur Auseinandersetzung der ersten politischen Bewegung mit der führenden Schicht. Diesen politischen Konflikt entschieden letztlich die Republikaner für sich. Im Jahre 1800 wurde Thomas Jefferson Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika. Damit hatten sich die Republikaner nicht nur durchgesetzt, sie waren nun auch in der Lage,

Author : Todd Gordon
Publisher : Halifax, N.S. : Fernwood Pub.
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Begging
ISBN : 1552661857

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Cops, Crime and Capitalism by Todd Gordon Pdf

Framed within a Marxist class analysis, this study locates law and order policing as a central moment of capitalist state power. He argues that, as with policing historically, crime-fighting is not the principal aim of contemporary law and order policing -- rather the aim is the production of a new social order based on the severely diminished expectations of working people. Crime fighting matters only insofar as it helps in this process. Law and order policing is not really a fight against rampant and escalating crime; rather it is aimed at forcefully limiting any possibilities the able-bodied poor may try to pursue to avoid the worst forms of wage labour.

Author : Paul Collier
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062748669

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The Future of Capitalism by Paul Collier Pdf

Bill Gates's Five Books for Summer Reading 2019 From world-renowned economist Paul Collier, a candid diagnosis of the failures of capitalism and a pragmatic and realistic vision for how we can repair it. Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of the United States and other Western societies: thriving cities versus rural counties, the highly skilled elite versus the less educated, wealthy versus developing countries. As these divides deepen, we have lost the sense of ethical obligation to others that was crucial to the rise of post-war social democracy. So far these rifts have been answered only by the revivalist ideologies of populism and socialism, leading to the seismic upheavals of Trump, Brexit, and the return of the far-right in Germany. We have heard many critiques of capitalism but no one has laid out a realistic way to fix it, until now. In a passionate and polemical book, celebrated economist Paul Collier outlines brilliantly original and ethical ways of healing these rifts—economic, social and cultural—with the cool head of pragmatism, rather than the fervor of ideological revivalism. He reveals how he has personally lived across these three divides, moving from working-class Sheffield to hyper-competitive Oxford, and working between Britain and Africa, and acknowledges some of the failings of his profession. Drawing on his own solutions as well as ideas from some of the world’s most distinguished social scientists, he shows us how to save capitalism from itself—and free ourselves from the intellectual baggage of the twentieth century.

Author : Todd McGowan
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231542210

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Capitalism and Desire by Todd McGowan Pdf

Despite creating vast inequalities and propping up reactionary world regimes, capitalism has many passionate defenders—but not because of what it withholds from some and gives to others. Capitalism dominates, Todd McGowan argues, because it mimics the structure of our desire while hiding the trauma that the system inflicts upon it. People from all backgrounds enjoy what capitalism provides, but at the same time are told more and better is yet to come. Capitalism traps us through an incomplete satisfaction that compels us after the new, the better, and the more. Capitalism's parasitic relationship to our desires gives it the illusion of corresponding to our natural impulses, which is how capitalism's defenders characterize it. By understanding this psychic strategy, McGowan hopes to divest us of our addiction to capitalist enrichment and help us rediscover enjoyment as we actually experienced it. By locating it in the present, McGowan frees us from our attachment to a better future and the belief that capitalism is an essential outgrowth of human nature. From this perspective, our economic, social, and political worlds open up to real political change. Eloquent and enlivened by examples from film, television, consumer culture, and everyday life, Capitalism and Desire brings a new, psychoanalytically grounded approach to political and social theory.

Author : Anthony Giddens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1973-02-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781107268043

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Capitalism and Modern Social Theory by Anthony Giddens Pdf

Giddens's analysis of the writings of Marx, Durkheim and Weber has become the classic text for any student seeking to understand the three thinkers who established the basic framework of contemporary sociology. The first three sections of the book, based on close textual examination of the original sources, contain separate treatments of each writer. The author demonstrates the internal coherence of their respective contributions to social theory. The concluding section discusses the principal ways in which Marx can be compared with the other two authors, and discusses misconceptions of some conventional views on the subject.

Author : Fredric Jameson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1992-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822310902

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Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric Jameson Pdf

Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ”postmodernism”. Jameson’s inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from “high” art to “low” from market ideology to architecture, from painting to “punk” film, from video art to literature.

Author : John D. Stephens
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1979-09-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349161713

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The Transition from Capitalism to Socialism by John D. Stephens Pdf