A Political Economy of the Senses

A Political Economy of the Senses
Author: Anita Chari
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2015-10-13
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0231540388

Anita Chari revives the concept of reification from Marx and the Frankfurt School to spotlight the resistance to neoliberal capitalism now forming at the level of political economy and at the more sensate, experiential level of subjective transformation. Reading art by Oliver Ressler, Zanny Begg, Claire Fontaine, Jason Lazarus, and Mika Rottenberg, as well as the politics of Occupy Wall Street, Chari identifies practices through which artists and activists have challenged neoliberalism's social and political logics, exposing its inherent tensions and contradictions.

Varieties of Capitalism

Varieties of Capitalism
Author: Peter A. Hall
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 557
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199247749

Applying the new economics of organisation and relational theories of the firm to the problem of understanding cross-national variation in the political economy, this volume elaborates a new understanding of the institutional differences that characterise the 'varieties of capitalism' worldwide.

American Capitalism

American Capitalism
Author: Sven Beckert
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 473
Release: 2018-02-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0231546068

The United States has long epitomized capitalism. From its enterprising shopkeepers, wildcat banks, violent slave plantations, huge industrial working class, and raucous commodities trade to its world-spanning multinationals, its massive factories, and the centripetal power of New York in the world of finance, America has come to symbolize capitalism for two centuries and more. But an understanding of the history of American capitalism is as elusive as it is urgent. What does it mean to make capitalism a subject of historical inquiry? What is its potential across multiple disciplines, alongside different methodologies, and in a range of geographic and chronological settings? And how does a focus on capitalism change our understanding of American history? American Capitalism presents a sampling of cutting-edge research from prominent scholars. These broad-minded and rigorous essays venture new angles on finance, debt, and credit; women’s rights; slavery and political economy; the racialization of capitalism; labor beyond industrial wage workers; and the production of knowledge, including the idea of the economy, among other topics. Together, the essays suggest emerging themes in the field: a fascination with capitalism as it is made by political authority, how it is claimed and contested by participants, how it spreads across the globe, and how it can be reconceptualized without being universalized. A major statement for a wide-open field, this book demonstrates the breadth and scope of the work that the history of capitalism can provoke.

The Value of Marx

The Value of Marx
Author: Alfredo Saad Filho
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2001-11-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134566972

This book constitutes an overview of recent developments in political economy in general, and Marxist value theory in particular. The implications of value theory for bank credit, inflation and deflation are fully explored.

Essays on Economics and Economists

Essays on Economics and Economists
Author: R. H. Coase
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 1994
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780226111032

How do economists tackle the problems of the economic system and give advice on public policy? Nobel laureate R.H. Coase reflects on some of the most fundamental concerns of economists over the past two centuries. In 15 essays, Coase explore the history and philosophy of economics and evaluates the contributions of a number of outstanding figures.