Sapelli Beyond Capitalism

Machines, Work and Property
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-030-20769-4
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 196 Seiten

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

This book offers a new perspective on the financialisation of the economy and its profound technological transformation in an increasingly interdependent and globalised world. A deterioration of capitalist property has led to the reactivation of pre-capitalist social phenomena such as slavery. Meanwhile secular deflation and international destruction of the social state have wrought havoc with all familiar modern welfare infrastructure. Yet, Sapelli argues, there is still hope in the form of the gradual evolution of a community-based socialism based on diverse forms of ownership, co-operative living and working, and sustainable capitalist property. Sapelli presents a severe and dramatic look at the present world, where there is still a light at the end of the tunnel.   


Giulio Sapelli is Professor of Economic History at the University of Milan, Italy. He has more than 400 publications to his name.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sapelli, Giulio

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;6
1.1;Bibliography;16
2;Contents;17
3;Introduction to the Book by Giulio Sapelli;18
4;1: The Global Crisis Caused by Deflation;23
4.1;Transformation of Global Capitalism, Deflation with Unemployment and Rhetoric Around Intergenerational Conflict;23
4.2;Public Spending and Social Reproduction: Overturning the Rhetoric;25
4.3;Transformation of Public Intervention in the Crisis in the US and Japan;26
4.4;The European Exception to the Generational Narrative;28
4.5;Deficit and Debt;29
4.6;Low Growth, Demographics, Labour: Problems to Be Solved;30
4.7;Social Reproduction Is Difficult;31
4.8;European Growth Is Possible Only If the Public Debt Paradigm Changes;32
4.9;Europe Is the Epicentre of Deflation and Power Imbalance;33
4.10;France and Germany;38
4.11;Neo-colonialism and Neo-imperialism;40
4.12;New Areas of State: Between Leviathan and Behemoth;51
4.13;Bibliography;73
5;2: Financialised, High-tech Capitalism Based on Modern Slavery;77
5.1;The Advent of Owner Capitalism: Ordoliberalism and New Technologies;77
5.2;A New Kondratieff Cycle;83
5.3;A Technology for Long-term Stagnation?;86
5.4;Mechanics, Commodities, Labour;97
5.5;Soul of the Capitalist Machinery;103
5.6;Why Should We Research Workers and Employees Today?;106
5.7;Disappearance of Trade Unions: Deinstitutionalised Capitalism?;117
5.8;Bibliography;124
6;3: Is a Non-capitalist Economy Possible?;128
6.1;Histories, Wars, Markets;128
6.2;The Problem Is Ownership and Its Variable Forms;131
6.3;Faith?;147
6.4;Bibliography;151
7;4: Freedom and Diversity: The Anticapitalist Revolution;153
7.1;More on Allocation of Ownership;153
7.2;Common Goods;158
7.3;Bibliography;164
8;5: Against Rhetoric, Back to Theory and Struggle;166
8.1;Living Worlds … Communities?;166
8.2;People: Our Strength;169
8.3;Bibliography;173
9;6: Blowing into the Bottle;176
9.1;Adriano Olivetti and the Language of Hope;176
10;Index;192