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Häftad, Engelska, 2025
161 kr
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The rise of the IT industry in the nineties promised a new era of freedom and prosperity. It didn't deliver. Today, algorithms are everywhere, but digital monopolies push us towards the feudal logic of rent, dispossession, and personal domination. How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-feudalism tears apart the Silicon Valley consensus to reveal the new economic order, in which capital has abandoned production to focus on predation.
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
319 kr
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The 2007-08 credit crisis and the long recession that followed brutally exposed the economic and social costs of financialization. Understanding what lay behind these events, the rise of "fictitious capital" and its opaque logic, is crucial to grasping the social and political conditions under which we live. Yet, for most people, the operations of the financial system remain shrouded in mystery.In this lucid and compelling book, economist Cédric Durand offers a concise and critical introduction to the world of finance, unveiling the truth behind the credit crunch. Fictitious Capital moves beyond moralizing tales about greedy bankers, short-sighted experts and compromised regulators to look at the big picture. Using comparative data covering the last four decades, Durand examines the relationship between trends such as the rise in private and public debt and the proliferation of financial products; norms such as our habitual assumptions about the production of value and financial stability; and the relationship of all this to political power.Fictitious Capital offers a stark warning about the direction that the international economy is taking. Durand argues that the accelerated expansion of financial operations is a sign of the declining power of the economies of the Global North. The City, Wall Street and other centres of the power of money, he suggests, may already be caked with the frosts of winter.
E-bok
Engelska, 2017122 kr
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The 2007-08 credit crisis and the long recession that followed brutally exposed the economic and social costs of financialization. Understanding what lay behind these events, the rise of "fictitious capital" and its opaque logic, is crucial to grasping the social and political conditions under which we live. Yet, for most people, the operations of the financial system remain shrouded in mystery.In this lucid and compelling book, economist C�dric Durand offers a concise and critical introduction to the world of finance, unveiling the truth behind the credit crunch. Fictitious Capital moves beyond moralizing tales about greedy bankers, short-sighted experts and compromised regulators to look at the big picture. Using comparative data covering the last four decades, Durand examines the relationship between trends such as the rise in private and public debt and the proliferation of financial products; norms such as our habitual assumptions about the production of value and financial stability; and the relationship of all this to political power.Fictitious Capital offers a stark warning about the direction that the international economy is taking. Durand argues that the accelerated expansion of financial operations is a sign of the declining power of the economies of the Global North. The City, Wall Street and other centres of the power of money, he suggests, may already be caked with the frosts of winter.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
224 kr
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The rise of the IT industry in the nineties promised a new era of freedom and prosperity. It didn't deliver. Certainly, algorithms are everywhere, but capitalism is no more civilised than ever. In fact, in the hands of private corporations, the digitalisation of the world drives us towards a darker future. The return of monopolies, the dominance of a few platforms, the blurred distinction between the economic and the political all epitomise a systemic mutation. Information and data networks push the digital economy in the direction of the feudal logic of rent, dispossession, and personal domination.How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-feudalism offers a fresh genealogy of the Silicon Valley consensus and its contradictions. It disentangles the principles of an emerging systemwide rationale. Large firms compete in cyberspace to gain control over data, and ordinary people are increasingly at the mercy of tech giants. In this new economic order, capital is moving away from production to focus on predation.
130 kr
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The rise of the IT industry in the nineties promised a new era of freedom and prosperity. It didn''t deliver. Certainly, algorithms are everywhere, but capitalism is no more civilised than ever. In fact, in the hands of private corporations, the digitalisation of the world drives us towards a darker future. The return of monopolies, the dominance of a few platforms, the blurred distinction between the economic and the political all epitomise a systemic mutation. Information and data networks push the digital economy in the direction of the feudal logic of rent, dispossession, and personal domination.How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-feudalism offers a fresh genealogy of the Silicon Valley consensus and its contradictions. It disentangles the principles of an emerging systemwide rationale. Large firms compete in cyberspace to gain control over data, and ordinary people are increasingly at the mercy of tech giants. In this new economic order, capital is moving away from production to focus on predation.
Häftad, Engelska, 2027
340 kr
Kommande
This book looks back at the history of this notion in the 20th century, between war economies,developmental catch-up, and socialist experiments, revisits the classic debates between theproponents of the "price signal; and those of"calculation in kind" and shows how the current situation offers new possibilities for planning. The cautious deployment of digital tools,innovative accounting techniques, and the deepening of institutions of collective deliberation cangive rise to a needs-based government of production. As long as they remain trapped in thestraitjacket of the "free market" consumer eco-gestures will prove powerless. Beyond growth,ecological planning offers a realist, transformative path toward a balanced human ecologicalfootprint by deepening economic democracy.
Häftad, Tyska, 2026
281 kr
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Del 4 - Surplus - Das Wirtschaftsmagazin
Kampf um Zeit
Tyska, 2025
112 kr
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Tyska, 2025
150 kr
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E-bok
Spanska, 2018113 kr
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A menudo nos explican que las turbulencias del mercado financiero se deben a la inmoralidad de los agentes, los errores de la teoría económica o a una regulación inadecuada. Aunque estas explicaciones no son falsas, dejan de lado el problema principal: la naturaleza y el origen del valor financiero. Cédric Durand esclarece en este libro cómo el aumento del "capital ficticio" —otorgar valor a flujos de ingresos aún por llegar— es una clara apropiación de nuestro futuro, y cómo estar a favor de la "estabilidad financiera" es seguir velando por los beneficios financieros.El capital ficticio es un brillante ensayo para comprender el papel de los mercados en nuestra sociedad y para orientarnos en las luchas que hay que emprender contra las finanzas. Constituye también un aporte crítico al pensamiento de Thomas Piketty, quien en opinión de Durand orilla en exceso la singularidad del capital financiero y sus mecanismos de dominación.