Capitalism In Chaos

Author : Máté Rigó
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501764660

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Capitalism in Chaos by Máté Rigó Pdf

Capitalism in Chaos explores an often-overlooked consequence and paradox of the First World War—the prosperity of business elites and bankers in service of the war effort during the destruction of capital and wealth by belligerent armies. This study of business life amid war and massive geopolitical changes follows industrialists and policymakers in Central Europe as the region became crucially important for German and subsequently French plans of economic and geopolitical expansion in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Based on extensive research in sixteen archives, five languages, and four states, Máté Rigó demonstrates that wartime destruction and the birth of "war millionaires" were two sides of the same coin. Despite the recent centenaries of the Great War and the Versailles peace treaties, knowledge of the overall impact of war and border changes on business life remains sporadic, based on scant statistics and misleading national foci. Consequently, most histories remain wedded to the viewpoint of national governments and commercial connections across national borders. Capitalism in Chaos changes the static historical perspective by presenting Europe's East as the economic engine of the continent. Rigó accomplishes this paradigm shift by focusing on both supranational regions—including East-Central and Western Europe—as well as the eastern and western peripheries of Central Europe, Alsace-Lorraine and Transylvania, from the 1870s until the 1920s. As a result, Capitalism in Chaos offers a concrete, lively history of economics during major world crises, with a contemporary consciousness toward inequality and disparity during a time of collapse.

Author : J. J. Rousso
Publisher : Vernon, B.C. : Vernon Publishers
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : OCLC:17586057

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Capitalism & Social Chaos by J. J. Rousso Pdf

Author : Reva Blau,Judith Blau
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781785275289

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Climate Chaos and its Origins in Slavery and Capitalism by Reva Blau,Judith Blau Pdf

Climate Chaos provides readers the latest consensus among international scientists on the cascading impacts of climate change and the tipping points that today threaten to irreversibly destroy the delicate balance of the Earth’s ecosystems. The book argues that deregulation and an expansion of fossil fuel extraction have already tipped the planet towards a climate that is out of control. This crisis will cause massive human suffering when extreme weather, pollution and disease lead to displacement, food and water shortages, war, and possibly species extinction. The repression of science creates an existential crisis for humanity that has reached crisis proportions in the twentieth-first century. The scale of the crisis has prompted a call for geoengineering, large interventions into the climate by technological innovation. However, the history of colonialism and slavery make the technological and monetary elites untrustworthy to solve this humanitarian and planetary crisis. While the elites have always cast certain groups of humanity as expendable, the climate crisis makes a true humanist and egalitarian movement based in human rights and dignity not only aspirational but also existentially mandatory. The crisis demands that we remake the world into a more just and safe place for all the world’s people.

Author : Robert P. Murphy
Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Anarchism
ISBN : 9781610165099

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Chaos Theory by Robert P. Murphy Pdf

Author : Arthur Jackson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-07-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780615151908

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Chaos, Synchronicity, and Capitalism: The Phases in the Evolution of a Natural System by Arthur Jackson Pdf

Anew look at the major global economic system, Capitalism. Discover its orgins, and where it may be leading us in the future.

Author : Samir Amin
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780853458449

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Empire of Chaos by Samir Amin Pdf

The poor and forgotten nations of the world can blame their downward spiral on an emerging world order that Samir Amin in this brilliant essay calls the empire of chaos. Comprised of the United States, Japan, and Germany, and backed by a weakened USSR and the comprador classes of the third world, this is an empire that will stop at nothing in its campaign to protect and expand its capitalist markets.

Author : Ludwig Von Mises
Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Economic policy
ISBN : 9781610163675

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Planned Chaos by Ludwig Von Mises Pdf

Author : Dambisa Moyo
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780465097470

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Edge of Chaos by Dambisa Moyo Pdf

From an internationally acclaimed economist, a provocative call to jump-start economic growth by aggressively overhauling liberal democracy Around the world, people who are angry at stagnant wages and growing inequality have rebelled against established governments and turned to political extremes. Liberal democracy, history's greatest engine of growth, now struggles to overcome unprecedented economic headwinds--from aging populations to scarce resources to unsustainable debt burdens. Hobbled by short-term thinking and ideological dogma, democracies risk falling prey to nationalism and protectionism that will deliver declining living standards. In Edge of Chaos, Dambisa Moyo shows why economic growth is essential to global stability, and why liberal democracies are failing to produce it today. Rather than turning away from democracy, she argues, we must fundamentally reform it. Edge of Chaos presents a radical blueprint for change in order to galvanize growth and ensure the survival of democracy in the twenty-first century.

Author : Jonathan Levy
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 945 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780812985184

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Ages of American Capitalism by Jonathan Levy Pdf

A leading economic historian traces the evolution of American capitalism from the colonial era to the present—and argues that we’ve reached a turning point that will define the era ahead. “A monumental achievement, sure to become a classic.”—Zachary D. Carter, author of The Price of Peace In this ambitious single-volume history of the United States, economic historian Jonathan Levy reveals how capitalism in America has evolved through four distinct ages and how the country’s economic evolution is inseparable from the nature of American life itself. The Age of Commerce spans the colonial era through the outbreak of the Civil War, and the Age of Capital traces the lasting impact of the industrial revolution. The volatility of the Age of Capital ultimately led to the Great Depression, which sparked the Age of Control, during which the government took on a more active role in the economy, and finally, in the Age of Chaos, deregulation and the growth of the finance industry created a booming economy for some but also striking inequalities and a lack of oversight that led directly to the crash of 2008. In Ages of American Capitalism, Levy proves that capitalism in the United States has never been just one thing. Instead, it has morphed through the country’s history—and it’s likely changing again right now. “A stunning accomplishment . . . an indispensable guide to understanding American history—and what’s happening in today’s economy.”—Christian Science Monitor “The best one-volume history of American capitalism.”—Sven Beckert, author of Empire of Cotton

Author : Robert Biel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004204294

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The Entropy of Capitalism by Robert Biel Pdf

Within the context of the ecological crisis of the twenty-first century, the book integrates Marxism and systems theory to reveal finance capital and the ‘war on terror’ as complementary responses of a capitalism reduced to parasitising upon symptoms of chaos.

Author : Giovanni Arrighi
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0816631514

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Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System by Giovanni Arrighi Pdf

In a period of dramatic transformation and upheaval, as we wonder what the future holds, this book reminds us that the world has undergone enormous changes before and that an understanding of those changes may tell us something about our own turbulent time. The authors look to two earlier periods that resemble the present in key respects -- the transition from Dutch to British world hegemony in the eighteenth century and the transition from British to U.S. world hegemony in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. In each case, a system wide expansion culminated in crisis and systemic chaos; eventually, a new hegemonic power reorganized the system to solve the problems and contradictions that underlay the chaos. The authors find recurrent characteristics in these transitions, such as the resurgence of finance capital and the intensification of interstate rivalries and social conflict. They also recognize, however, how the present transition differs from the previous patterns. Among the anomalies are the proliferation of transnational organizations and communities, increased social conflict in driving systemic change, a geographical split between military and financial powers, and a shift in the processes of capital accumulation away from the West. Chaos and Governance in the Modern Worm System addresses controversies affecting a range of fields -- political, economic, social, and cultural -- concerned with global change. Though written from a world-systems perspective, it emphasizes the instability and adaptability of world capitalism and the role played by hegemonic states in periodically reorganizing the system.

Author : Alec Reed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Capital market
ISBN : 0077103696

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Capitalism is Dead by Alec Reed Pdf

The aims of this text is to look at the acute challenges experienced by companies in the Peoplist era, and proffer solutions. It translates the impact of Peoplism into business strategy through original case studies and management tools.

Author : George Gilder
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781621570271

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Knowledge and Power by George Gilder Pdf

Ronald Reagan’s most-quoted living author—George Gilder—is back with an all-new paradigm-shifting theory of capitalism that will upturn conventional wisdom, just when our economy desperately needs a new direction. America’s struggling economy needs a better philosophy than the college student's lament: "I can't be out of money, I still have checks in my checkbook!" We’ve tried a government spending spree, and we’ve learned it doesn’t work. Now is the time to rededicate our country to the pursuit of free market capitalism, before we’re buried under a mound of debt and unfunded entitlements. But how do we navigate between government spending that's too big to sustain and financial institutions that are "too big to fail?" In Knowledge and Power, George Gilder proposes a bold new theory on how capitalism produces wealth and how our economy can regain its vitality and its growth. Gilder breaks away from the supply-side model of economics to present a new economic paradigm: the epic conflict between the knowledge of entrepreneurs on one side, and the blunt power of government on the other. The knowledge of entrepreneurs, and their freedom to share and use that knowledge, are the sparks that light up the economy and set its gears in motion. The power of government to regulate, stifle, manipulate, subsidize or suppress knowledge and ideas is the inertia that slows those gears down, or keeps them from turning at all. One of the twentieth century’s defining economic minds has returned with a new philosophy to carry us into the twenty-first. Knowledge and Power is a must-read for fiscal conservatives, business owners, CEOs, investors, and anyone interested in propelling America’s economy to future success.

Author : Andrés Solimano
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780190626273

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Global Capitalism in Disarray by Andrés Solimano Pdf

Global capitalism is affected by the malaises of stagnation, financial fragility, increased income inequality, growing wealth concentration at the top, and a vanishing fair social contract. This book focuses on the incidence of these phenomena in the US, UK, Greece, Spain, Chile, South Africa, Australia, China, and other countries. The book looks at the effects of IMF-ECB led austerity policies in Europe. The book examines concrete country and global conditions combining theory, country studies, historical evidence, and international comparative analysis. The book also proposes new policy priorities to restore stability, reduce inequality, and consolidate democracy in 21st century capitalism.

Author : Naomi Klein
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307371300

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The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein Pdf

From the bestselling author of No Logo—the gripping story of how America’s “free market” polices exploited crises and shock for three decades from Pinochet’s coup in Chile in 1973 to the "War on Terror." In her groundbreaking reporting, Naomi Klein introduced the term "disaster capitalism." Whether covering Baghdad after the U.S. occupation, Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, or New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed something remarkably similar. People still reeling from catastrophe were being hit again, this time with economic "shock treatment," losing their land and homes to rapid-fire corporate makeovers. The Shock Doctrine retells the story of one the most dominant ideologies of our time: Milton Friedman's free market economic revolution. In contrast to the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory, Klein shows how it has exploited moments of shock and extreme violence in order to implement its economic policies in so many parts of the world from Latin America and Eastern Europe to South Africa, Russia, and Iraq. At the core of disaster capitalism is the use of cataclysmic events to advance radical privatization combined with the privatization of the disaster response itself. Klein argues that by capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy, and is the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for fifty years.