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Keystroke Capitalism
Why society needs to reclaim the power to create money At the heart of capitalism lies the ability of private banks to create money at the stroke of a key. Why have we ignored this unique privilege for so long – and at what cost? Aaron Sahr attributes the lack of attention paid to money creation to the core of popular theories of capitalism, which equate economic power with capital ownership. This conceptual framework obscures the real drivers of capitalist dynamics as well as the causes of increasing inequality. By exploring the transformation of banking over the last half century, Sahr shows how the creation of money has driven the rise of finance as well as splitting incomes from wealth...
Capital Claims: Power and Global Finance
Capital Claims: Power and Global Finance analyses how global financialized capitalism operates and reproduces itself, exploring the remarkable ability of the financial sector to maintain its dominance through even the most severe economic crises. The book defines international financialization as a process by which the number and value, the tradability, and the enforceability of cross-border financial claims increase and are successfully defended against competing social or political agendas. By focusing on financial claims, the volume develops a conceptual toolkit for the study of the political economy of global finance and the inequalities it sustains. The book brings together leading rese...
Inventing Value
Value is central to the market sectors of the contemporary economy, yet the best-established theories of value fail to expose how it operates and how it is manipulated for profit. This book begins to reconstruct the theory of value. In one sense, it argues, value is a personal assessment of worth, but those assessments draw deeply on normative standards. The book examines those standards and how they are formed, transformed and supported by the construction of new social structures. The empirical evidence comes from contemporary financial examples: the mortgage-backed securities that caused the global crash of 2008, how venture capitalists secure outrageous valuations for so-called unicorn companies, and the rise of Bitcoin. The result is a theory that shows how value is invented by value entrepreneurs in pursuit of their interests and thus provides a new basis for criticising the role of value in the commodity economy and the finance sector.
Capital and Ressentiment
The proliferation of social media has provided ideal conditions in which feelings of anger and frustration can be expressed and shared, forming a deep pool of ressentiment that is being drawn upon and exploited by populist and authoritarian leaders. In his new book, Joseph Vogl shows how this dynamic is rooted in the fusing of finance capital and information in a new form of information capitalism that is reshaping the affective economy of our societies. The capital accumulation strategies of powerful new platforms and social media are pushing people into fragmented, opposing, and conflictual communities where ressentiment is nurtured and grows. The feelings of grievance and rejection genera...
Athletic Activism
Rooted in a global, transnational perspective, Athletic Activism: Global Perspectives on Social Transformation demonstrates how athletic activism can not only impact global discourse about inequity across various social location, but foster institutional change that advances social justice.
Germany's Hidden Crisis
How neoliberalism is causing a crisis in Germany Upward social mobility represented a core promise of life under the “old” West German welfare state, in which millions of skilled workers upgraded their Volkswagens to Audis, bought their first homes, and sent their children to university. Not so in today’s Federal Republic, where the gears of the so-called “elevator society” have long since ground to a halt. In the absence of the social mobility of yesterday, widespread social exhaustion and anxiety have emerged across mainstream society. Oliver Nachtwey analyses the reasons for this social rupture in postwar German society and investigates the conflict potential emerging as a result. He concludes that although the country has managed to muddle through thus far, simmering tensions beneath the surface nevertheless threaten to undermine the German system’s stability in the years to come. Recipient of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation 2016 Hans-Matthöfer-Preis for Economic Writing.
Corporate Crime and Punishment
"Over the last decade, many of the world's biggest companies have been embroiled in legal disputes over corruption, fraud, environmental damage, taxation issues, or sanction violations, ending either in convictions or settlements of record-breaking fines that have surpassed the billion-dollar mark. For critics of globalisation, this turn towards corporate accountability is a welcome change, showing that multinational companies are not above the law. In this book, Cornelia Woll considers how far this turn toward negotiated corporate justice, and the United States' legal action against multinationals in particular, is motivated by geopolitical and geoeconomic concerns. Woll analyses the evolut...
Keystroke-Kapitalismus
Das Weltvermögen beträgt derzeit ca. 256 Billionen US-Dollar und ist damit gut 800 Mal so groß wie der Staatshaushalt der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Dagegen steht der Rekordbestand von gut 152 Billionen Dollar Privatschulden. Beide, Schulden wie Vermögen, sind zunehmend ungleich verteilt. Aaron Sahr beleuchtet das Dreieck von Privatvermögen, Schulden und ökonomischer Ungleichheit und stößt dabei im "Maschinenraum des Kapitalismus" auf eine paraökonomische Quelle der Vermögensbildung: das Geldschöpfungsprivileg privater Banken. Private Banken produzieren Geld aus dem Nichts durch einfachen Tastendruck. Von diesem Privileg, so die These Sahrs, profitiert vor allem eine Minderheit, ...
Deleuze - seine philosophischen Welten für Einsteiger 3. Band
Zwei großartige und labyrinthische Werke, Höhepunkte des gemeinsamen Schaffens von Deleuze und Guattari: Die zwei Bände "Kapitalismus und Schizophrenie" werden in diesem Einsteigerband verständlich kommentiert und LeserInnen nahe gebracht. Beispiele aus verschiedenen Bereichen machen die philosophischen Einsichten anschaulich. Dabei werden auch die Gedanken der beiden Philosophen mit neuen Werken aus Philosophie, Wirtschaft, Politologie und Recht weitergedacht (z. B. Braidotti, Pistor, Krastev, Sahr) Dies ist, 51 Jahre nach der Veröffentlichung von Anti-Ödipus, der erste deutsche Kommentar zu diesem beeindruckenden philosophischen Doppelwerk, das in Deutschland bis jetzt zu wenig beachtet wurde.
Magazin Buchkultur 200
Alexander Kluge feiert seinen 90. Geburtstag und ist nach wie vor hochproduktiv: Wir sprechen mit dem vielseitigen Intellektuellen über seine vier neuen Bücher, die Gegenwärtigkeit von Erinnerung und über die Mauerdurchbrüche zur Zukunft; Die Geschichte jener Mauer, die seit 1989 bereits durchbrochen ist, wird bis heute meist vom Westen her erzählt – wir beleuchten andere Perspektiven in vier Neuerscheinungen; und Nadire Biskin berichtet in ihrem vielschichtigen Debüt "Ein Spiegel für mein Gegenüber" über die sozialen Zusammenhänge und das Erwachsenwerden einer jungen Frau zwischen Bucak in der Türkei und dem gegenwärtigen Berlin, während in einem weiteren, ebenfalls beachten...
