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Property, Power and Politics : Why We Need to Rethink the World Power System /

This revolutionary work rethinks globalization as a power system feeding from, and in competition with, the state system. In illuminating how the concentration of property rights within corporations led to the rejection of democracy and to the rise in inequality, Robe offers a clear pathway to a fai...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Robe, Jean-Philippe (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2020.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Property. Introduction to Part I ; 1. The Meaning of Property ; 2. The Modern Constitutional Mode of Government ; 3. Sovereignty and Property ; 4. From Political Enterprise to the Modern State ; 5. The Mixing of Democracy and Despotism
  • Part II. Firms in the World Power System. Introduction to Part II ; 6. Firms ; 7. The Features of Business Corporations ; 8. The Spreading of the Corporate System and its Consequences ; 9. Coping with Firms ; 10. Towards a Sustainable World Power System
  • Epilogue.