Accumulating Capital Today: Contemporary Strategies of Profit and Dispossessive Policies Benquet Marlne
Accumulating Capital Today: Contemporary Strategies of Profit and Dispossessive Policies Benquet Marlne This book explores the renewal of forms of capital accumulation and the institutions that shape…
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Accumulating Capital Today: Contemporary Strategies of Profit and Dispossessive Policies Benquet Marlne
This book explores the renewal of forms of capital accumulation and the institutions that shape it. It thus offers a new understanding of the economic and political logics of capital accumulation within capitalism in the 21st century. It focuses on three main sources of accumulation: the extraction of profit through labor and the commodification of nature, financial speculation and the ways in which profit is converted into wealth.
Bringing together the work of scholars who study the social fabric of capitalist accumulation, Accumulating Capital Today goes beyond disciplinary frontiers to describe how capital is accumulating in a world threatened by social and environmental collapse. It shows the recomposition of the sources of profit, from the traditional mechanisms of labor exploitation to the contemporary logics of speculation and dispossession. This book heralds the