Cognitive Capitalism, Welfare and Labour: The Commonfare Hypothesis

ISBN-13: 9780367728090 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 178 str.

Andrea Fumagalli; Alfonso Giuliani; Stefano Lucarelli

Opis

This book deals with the transformations of both accumulation process and labour in the transition from a Fordist to a cognitive capitalism paradigm, with specific regard to Western economies. It outlines the advent, after industrial capitalism, of a new phase of the capitalist system in which the value of cognitive labour becomes dominant.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. An introduction to Cognitive Capitalism: A Marxist Approach  2. Metamorphosis of the Theory of Value and Becoming-rent of Profit: An Attempt to Clarify the Terms of a Debate  3. Twenty Thesis on Contemporary Capitalism (Bio-cognitve Capitalism) 4. New Forms of Exploitation in Bio-cognitive Capitalism: Towards Life Subsumption  5. A Financialized Monetary Economy of Production  6. Cognitive Capitalism, an Empirical and Theoretical Analysis  7. Common and Commons in the Contradictory Dynamics between Knowledge-based Economy and Cognitive Capitalism  8. Postface

O autorze

Andrea Fumagalli is Associate Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics and Management at University of Pavia, Italy. He also teaches at IUSS Pavia and his research focuses on issues of labour precarity, on basic income and transformations of contemporary capitalism.

Alfonso Giuliani is a Research Fellow at Centre d’Économie de la Sorbonne,Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, CNRS UMR 8174, France. His research focuses on issues of institutional economics, political economy of commons, cognitive capitalism, monetary theory of production and history of economic thought.

Stefano Lucarelli is Associate Professor in Economic Policy at University of Bergamo, Italy. His research projects include institutional economics, cognitive capitalism, monetary theory of production, financialization, stock-flow consistent models and complementary currencies.

Carlo Vercellone is Full Professor at Université de Paris 8, France, Department of Culture and Communication. He is also a member of Centre d’Études sur les Médias et l’Internationalisation (CEMTI), Associate Researcher at CNRS-Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne (CES) and Sophiapol (Université Paris Nanterre). His research focuses on the knowledge economy, cognitive capitalism, welfare state and basic income.