Experimental Capitalism

Author : Steven Klepper
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400873753

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Experimental Capitalism by Steven Klepper Pdf

For much of the twentieth century, American corporations led the world in terms of technological progress. Why did certain industries have such great success? Experimental Capitalism examines six key industries—automobiles, pneumatic tires, television receivers, semiconductors, lasers, and penicillin—and tracks the highs and lows of American high-tech capitalism and the resulting innovation landscape. Employing "nanoeconomics"—a deep dive into the formation and functioning of companies—Steven Klepper determines how specific companies emerged to become the undisputed leaders that altered the course of their industry's evolution. Klepper delves into why a small number of firms came to dominate their industries for many years after an initial period of tumult, including General Motors, Firestone, and Intel. Even though capitalism is built on the idea of competition among many, he shows how the innovation process naturally led to such dominance. Klepper explores how this domination influenced the search for further innovations. He also considers why industries cluster in specific geographical areas, such as semiconductors in northern California, cars in Detroit, and tires in Akron. He finds that early leading firms serve as involuntary training grounds for the next generation of entrepreneurs who spin off new firms into the surrounding region. Klepper concludes his study with a discussion of the impact of government and the potential for policy to enhance a nation’s high-tech industrial base. A culmination of a lifetime of research and thought, Experimental Capitalism takes a dynamic look at how new ideas and innovations led to America’s economic primacy.

Author : Banu Bargu,Chiara Bottici
Publisher : Springer
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319523866

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Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique by Banu Bargu,Chiara Bottici Pdf

This edited collection examines the relationship between three central terms—capitalism, feminism, and critique—while critically celebrating the work and life of a thinker who has done the most to address this nexus: Nancy Fraser. In honor of her seventieth birthday, and in the spirit of her work in the tradition of critical theory, this collection brings together scholars from different disciplines and theoretical approaches to address this conjunction and evaluate Fraser’s lifelong contributions to theorizing it. Scholars from philosophy, political science, sociology, gender studies, race theory and economics come together to think through the vicissitudes of capitalism and feminism while also responding to different elements of Nancy Fraser’s work, which weaves together a strong feminist standpoint with a vibrant and complex critique of capitalism. Going beyond conventional disciplinary distinctions and narrow debates, all the contributors to this project share a commitment to critically understanding the connection between capitalism, exploitation, and the viable roads for emancipation. They recover insights provided by classical traditions of political and social thought, but they also open new research directions adapted to the global challenges of our time.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004300293

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Capitalism's Future by Anonim Pdf

In Capitalism's Future: Alienation, Emancipation and Critique, sociologists, philosophers and cultural theorists critique economic and political dynamics of contemporary capitalism. An agenda for 21st century critical social theory emerges in conjoined critique of political economyand critique of political psychology.

Author : Eugene N. Shelton
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Capital
ISBN : 1611225477

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Capitalism in Business, Politics and Society by Eugene N. Shelton Pdf

The iconic economist-philosopher Adam Smith lauded capitalism as a system for distributing opportunity and prosperity widely, and for freeing populations from the oppression they suffered under the European aristocracy of his time. This book presents current research in the study of capitalism and its relation to business, politics and society. Topics discussed herein include experimental capitalism in the former USSR; industrial design in capitalism through development experiences of newly industrialising countries; dysmorphic capitalism and the aberrant development of creative intelligence; capital accumulation and equilibrium interest rates in stochastic production economies with the concern of social status; and surplus allocation and development under global capitalism.

Author : George Gilder
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 41,6 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 : Robert Kleinberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429722264

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China's Opening to the Outside World by Robert Kleinberg Pdf

This book is an attempt towards developing an understanding of China's "policy of opening up to the outside." It includes a study that focuses on three important Chinese foreign economic policies: policies that concern foreign investment, international trade, and Special Economic Zones.

Author : Matali
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781452509754

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Manifesting Paradise by Matali Pdf

A Divinely Guided Manual for Personal, Global and Planetary Healing Paradise was and still is The Divine plan Manifesting Paradise, the book of The Manifesting Paradise Teachings is one of the most important books ever written. Everybody needs to read this book! The scope of The Manifesting Paradise Teachings is all encompassing; A divinely guided A-Z of personal and planetary healing. The Manifesting Paradise Teachings, were divinely channeled and written down by Matali. The Manifesting Paradise Teachings are the urgently required divine guidance that humanity needs in order to avert devastating social, and environmental catharsis. Globally, humanity is now facing cathartic social and environmental collapse. Humanity is rapidly creating dystopia; the opposite to utopia or paradise. The human population is expected to double within twenty-five years, while climate instability and population pressures are expected to cause severe water and food shortages. Manifesting Paradise identifies the underlying causes that have brought humanity to this point and offers the simple solutions that can empower us to easily manifest personal, global, and planetary paradise.

Author : Silvia Edling,Sheila Macrine
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350174474

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Transnational Feminist Politics, Education, and Social Justice by Silvia Edling,Sheila Macrine Pdf

Written by an international group of feminist scholars and activists, the book explores how the rise in right-wing politics, fundamentalist religion, and radical nationalism is constructed and results in gendered and racial violence. The chapters cover a broad range of international contexts and offer new ways of combating assaults and oppression to understand the dangers inherent within the current global political and social climate. The book includes a foreword by the distinguished critical activist, Antonia Darder, as well as a chapter by renowned feminist-scholar, Chandra Talpade Mohanty.

Author : Tomás Vergara
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031399244

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Alterity and Capitalism in Speculative Fiction by Tomás Vergara Pdf

Speculative fiction has been traditionally studied in Marxist literary criticism, following Darko Suvin’s paradigmatic model of science fiction, according to a hierarchical division of its multiple subgenres in terms of their assumed inherent political value. By drawing on an alternative genealogy of Marxist criticism, this book presents a non-hierarchical understanding of the estrangement connecting all varieties of speculative fiction, outlining the political potential shared across the spectrum of speculative fiction, along with the specific narrative strategies by which it critically engages with its historical context of production. This study’s main point of contention is that speculative fiction performs an estrangement effect on historical reality that can potentially render visible the role of fantasies in the organisation of capitalist social practice. This narrative effect enables an estranged perspective by which the novel interprets and conceptualises historical reality in a totalising manner.

Author : Glenn Morgan,Richard Whitley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199694761

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Capitalisms and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century by Glenn Morgan,Richard Whitley Pdf

This interdisciplinary book examines comparative business systems, institutions, and practices by looking at current developments between firms, nations, and markets in an increasingly globalized world and in the context of the recent financial crises.

Author : Richard D. Wolff
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781608466559

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Capitalism's Crisis Deepens by Richard D. Wolff Pdf

“The leading socialist economist in the country” explores the roots of the Great Recession and its immense impact on working people (Cornel West). While most mainstream commentators view the crisis that provoked the Great Recession as having passed, these essays from Richard Wolff paint a far less rosy picture. Drawing attention to the extreme downturn in most of capitalism’s old centers, the unequal growth in its new centers, and the resurgence of a global speculative bubble, Wolff—in his uniquely accessible style—makes the case that the crisis should be grasped not as a passing moment, but as an evolving stage in capitalism’s history. Praise for Richard Wolff and Democracy at Work “Probably America’s most prominent Marxist economist.” —The New York Times Magazine “Richard Wolff’s constructive and innovative ideas suggest new and promising foundations for much more authentic democracy and sustainable and equitable development, ideas that can be implemented directly and carried forward. A very valuable contribution in troubled times.” —Noam Chomsky “Wolff offers a rich and much-needed corrective to the views of mainstream economists and pundits. It would be difficult to come away from this with anything but an acute appreciation of what is needed to get us out of this mess.” —Stanley Aronowitz “Bold, thoughtful, transformative—a powerful and challenging vision that takes us beyond both corporate capitalism and state socialism. Richard Wolff at his best!” —Gar Alperovitz

Author : Naomi Klein
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 51,8 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.

Author : Raymond Craib
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781629639277

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Adventure Capitalism by Raymond Craib Pdf

Imagine a capitalist paradise. An island utopia governed solely by the rules of the market and inspired by the fictions of Ayn Rand and Robinson Crusoe. Sound far-fetched? It may not be. The past half century is littered with the remains of such experiments in what Raymond Craib calls “libertarian exit.” Often dismissed as little more than the dreams of crazy, rich Caucasians, exit strategies have been tried out from the southwest Pacific to the Caribbean, from the North Sea to the high seas, often with dire consequences for local inhabitants. Based on research in archives in the US, the UK, and Vanuatu, as well as in FBI files acquired through the Freedom of Information Act, Craib explores in careful detail the ideology and practice of libertarian exit and its place in the histories of contemporary cap­italism, decolonization, empire, and oceans and islands. Adventure Capitalism is a global history that intersects with an array of figures: Fidel Castro and the Koch brothers, American segregationists and Melanesian socialists, Honolulu-based real estate speculators and British Special Branch spies, soldiers of fortune and English lords, Orange County engineers and Tongan navigators, CIA operatives and CBS news executives, and a new breed of techno-utopians and an old guard of Honduran coup leaders. This is not only a history of our time but, given the new iterations of privatized exit—seasteads, free private cities, and space colonization—it is also a history of our future.

Author : Dijana Jelača,Maša Kolanović,Danijela Lugarić
Publisher : Springer
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319474823

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The Cultural Life of Capitalism in Yugoslavia by Dijana Jelača,Maša Kolanović,Danijela Lugarić Pdf

This edited volume explores the cultural life of capitalism during socialist and post-socialist times within the geopolitical context of the former Yugoslavia. Through a variety of cutting edge essays at the intersections of critical cultural studies, material culture, visual culture, neo-Marxist theories and situated critiques of neoliberalism, the volume rethinks the relationship between capitalism and socialism. Rather than treating capitalism and socialism as mutually exclusive systems of political, social and economic order, the volume puts forth the idea that in the context of the former Yugoslavia, they are marked by a mutually intertwined existence not only on the economic level, but also on the level of cultural production and consumption. It argues that culture—although very often treated as secondary in the analyses of either socialism, capitalism or their relationship—has an important role in defining, negotiating, and resisting the social, political and economic values of both systems.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rex Bookstore, Inc.
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 971232866X

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College Scence Technology and Socety by Anonim Pdf