The wealth of (some) nations : imperialism and the mechanics of value transfer /

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In this provocative new study, Zak Cope makes the case that capitalism is empirically inseparable from imperialism, historically and today. Using a rigourous political economic framework, he lays bare the vast ongoing transfer of wealth from the poorest to the richest countries through the mechanism...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cope, Zak (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Pluto Press, 2019
Subjects:
Labor market > Political aspects.
Imperialism > Economic aspects.
Distribution (Economic theory)
Marché du travail > Aspect politique.
Impérialisme > Aspect économique.
Répartition (Théorie économique)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Economy.
Imperialism > Economic aspects
Labor market > Political aspects
Economics.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Value transfer
  • Colonial tribute
  • Monopoly rent
  • Unequal exchange
  • Imperialism and its denial
  • Measuring imperialist value transfer
  • Measuring colonial value transfer
  • Comparing value transfer to profits, wages and capital
  • Anti-imperialist Marxism and the wages of imperialism
  • The metropolitan labour aristocracy
  • The native labour aristocracy
  • Social imperialism before the First World War
  • Social imperialism after the First World War
  • Social-imperialist Marxism
  • Conclusion: imperialism and anti-imperialism today

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