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The Capitalist Mode of Power : Critical Engagements with the Power Theory of Value.
This edited volume offers the first critical engagement with one of the most provocative and controversial theories in political economy: the thesis that capital can be theorized as power and that capital is finance and only finance. The book also includes a detailed introduction to this novel thesi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Colección: | RIPE series in global political economy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; The Capitalist Mode of Power; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Glossary; 1 The provocations of capital as power; A brief introduction to capital as power; Part I: the provocation of history; Part II: the provocation of a new theory; Part III: the provocation of critique; Part I The provocation of history; 2 Historicizing capital as power: energy, capitalization and globalized social reproduction; The emergence of capital as power; Fossil fuels, social reproduction and the rise of capital as power.
- The capitalization-energy-social reproduction nexus and the next great transformationConclusion; Part II The provocation of a new theory; 3 The power of investment banks: surplus absorption or differential capitalization?; Monopoly capital and investment bank power; Finance: surplus absorption?; Capital as power; Investment banks: differential accumulation; Diversified power and neoliberal regulation; Conclusion; 4 NAFTA, investiture and distribution: the power underpinnings of trade and investment liberalization in Canada; Capital as a power institution.
- Contextualizing trade and investment liberalization in CanadaSome animals are more equal than others; Investment, investitura and distribution; The institutional reorganization of power; Conclusion; 5 'A degree of control': corporations and the struggle against South African apartheid; Background: the sullivan principles and the anti-apartheid movement; Differential accumulation as a theoretical and analytical tool; Corporate interest in S.A.: understanding the differential struggle; Divisions within the collective; Constructing control and the differential struggle; Conclusion(s); Appendix.
- Part III The provocation of critique6 Fighting the power? Struggle and resistance in Capital as Power; Differential accumulation; Conclusion; 7 State and capital: false dichotomy, structural super-determinism and moving beyond; I Situating the state of capital; II Critiquing the state of capital; III Moving beyond: towards a reconceptualization of the state; 8 Differential accumulation and the political economy of power; Accumulation and the logic of capitalist power; An economic conception of power; Finance and the commodification of power; Taking power seriously as a social relation.
- Conclusion9 From provocation to interrogation: the global political economy of the 1%, exploitation and the unfashionable problematic of 'capital' in IPE; The global political economy of the 1%; Exploitation and the capitalist mode of power; IPE and the unfashionable problematic of 'capital'; Bibliography; Index.