Accumulating Capital Today: Contemporary Strategies of Profit and Dispossessive Policies

ISBN-13: 9780367545017 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 236 str.

Benquet, Marlène

Opis

This book explores the potential renewal of capital accumulation and the institutions that underlie it, offering a new understanding of the way in which 21^st century capitalist accumulation combines the traditional logic of profit through labour exploitation with the logic of profit through speculation and dispossession.

Spis treści

Introduction  PART 1: Accumulating through the Exploitation of Labour and Nature  1. The dynamics of capital accumulation in managerial capitalism: the United States since World War II  2. Dispossessive wage labour: understanding accumulation and its crisis in contemporary Cameroon large-scale plantations  3. Between green growth and de-growth: locating the roots of climate change in capitalist accumulation  4. Exploring accumulation in the New Green Revolution for Africa. Ecological crisis, agrarian development and bio-capitalism  PART 2: Accumulating through Financial Investment  5. Constructing a favourable environment for financial accumulation: the case of the City of London Corporation  6. Collective effort, private accumulation: constructing the Luxembourg investment fund, 1956–2019  7. Financial accumulation and exploitation: the case of leveraged buy-outs  8. Philanthrocapitalist accumulation and financial inclusion  PART 3: Accumulating through Digital Technologies  9. Struggling to reform data capitalism: blockchain and the pipe dream of paying up  10. Predation in the age of algorithms: the role of intangible assets  11. Ghost management as a central feature of accumulation in corporate capitalism: the case of the global pharmaceutical sector  PART 4: Accumulating Through the Transformation of Profit into Personal Wealth  12. The role of the owner in new capitalist accumulation processes: the case of Finland  13. Wealth managers, guardians of enrichment: the case of wealth managers in France  14. Accumulation and tax professionals: the case of tax consultants in Germany  15. Why do women accumulate less wealth than men?