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Alt-Finance
A clear analysis of the about-turn in the modern financial sector towards free market authoritarianism
Accumulating Capital Today
This book explores the renewal of forms of capital accumulation and the institutions that shape it. It focuses on three main sources of accumulation: the extraction of profit through labor and the commodification of nature, financial speculation and the ways in which profit is converted into wealth. It thus offers a new understanding of the economic and political logics of capital accumulation within capitalism in the 21st century. It shows the recomposition of the sources of profit, from the traditional mechanisms of labor exploitation to the contemporary logics of speculation and dispossession. Bringing together the work of scholars who study the social fabric of capitalist accumulation, Accumulating Capital Today goes beyond disciplinary frontiers to describe how capital is accumulating in a world threatened by social and environmental collapse. This book heralds the emergence of "accumulation studies" and will be of interest to researchers in sociology, anthropology, politics, political economy, geography and economics.
In the Mind But Not From There
Artists and critics explore the concept of Real Abstraction to help understand contemporary cultural production In the Mind, But Not From There: Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art considers how the Marxian concept of Real Abstraction--originally developed by Alfred Sohn Rethel, and recently updated by Alberto Toscano--might help to define the economic, social, political, and cultural complexities of our contemporary moment. In doing so, this volume brings together noted contemporary artists, literary critics, curators, historians, and social theorists who connect the concept of Real Abstraction with contemporary cultural production. Theoretical and artistic contributions from Benjamin Noy...
Counterrevolution
A thorough investigation of the current combination of austerity and extravagance that characterizes government spending and central bank monetary policy At the close of the 1970s, government treasuries and central banks took a vow of perpetual self-restraint. To this day, fiscal authorities fret over soaring public debt burdens, while central bankers wring their hands at the slightest sign of rising wages. As the brief reprieve of coronavirus spending made clear, no departure from government austerity will be tolerated without a corresponding act of penance. Yet we misunderstand the scope of neoliberal public finance if we assume austerity to be its sole setting. Beyond the zero-sum game of...
Finance at Work
In the collective psyche, a financier is a capitalist. In managerial capitalism, the notion of the ‘manager’ emerged, and the role of the manager was distinct from the role of the ‘owner’. Financial capitalism is similarly underpinned by financiers who are not the holders of the financial assets they buy, sell, trade or advise upon. Finance at Work explores the world of financiers, be they finance-oriented CEOs, CFOs, financial journalists, mergers and acquisitions’ advisors or wealth managers. Part I investigates the professional trajectories of members of corporate boards and financialisation as the dissemination of financial logic outside its primary ‘iron cage’; Part II res...
Healthcare Activism
Healthcare has undergone major changes in personalization, marketization, and digitalization in recent decades. Through conceptual and empirical studies from a variety of healthcare contexts, this book explores the role of activists and civil society in defining and defending the collective good in healthcare and its changing landscape.---
Private Equity and Financial Development in Latin America
Shallow capital markets are a key bottleneck for private sector development in Latin America. Still, there is not a large literature on capital markets and corporate governance, or on the politics of regulatory reform and business associations, focused on this region. To help address this gap, this new book introduces private equity into the financial development debate through a Latin American lens. The author looks at the cases of Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, and Argentina. And proposes a shift in the financial development discussion from institutional explanations focused only on rules to an actor-based argument centered on the role of institutional investors, in particular pension funds .
Ludwig dans le living
"MA MÈRE ÉPLUCHAIT DES CONCOMBRES DANS LA CUISINE ET JE LISAIS UN OUVRAGE DE PHILOSOPHIE ANALYTIQUE DANS LE SALON." Augustin Barthelme est le spécialiste incontesté du paragraphe 6.1203 du Tractatus logico-philosophicus, l’œuvre majeure de Ludwig Wittgenstein. Il est aussi responsable du rayon produits laitiers du Franprix la Villette. Un soir d’automne 2032, un événement étrange se produit : Ludwig Wittgenstein sonne à la porte du pavillon familial. Plus étrange encore, le philosophe autrichien ne donne aucune explication sur sa présence quatre-vingt-un ans après sa mort et se contente de réclamer des verres de lait. Mais quand bientôt les choses autour de lui se mettent à disparaître mystérieusement, Augustin Barthelme doit se rendre à l’évidence : Ludwig n’est pas revenu que pour boire du lait, il est là pour engloutir le monde. Polar métaphysique, roman absurde et hilarant, Ludwig dans le living raconte une course contre le néant et la formidable indifférence du monde face à la catastrophe.
