The 1% and the Rest of Us : a political economy of dominant ownership /: a political economy of dominant ownership. (2015)
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- Book
- Title:
- The 1% and the Rest of Us : a political economy of dominant ownership /: a political economy of dominant ownership. (2015)
- Main Title:
- The 1% and the Rest of Us : a political economy of dominant ownership
- Other Titles:
- One percent and the rest of us
- Further Information:
- Note: Tim Di Muzio.
- Authors:
- Di Muzio, Tim
- Contents:
- Front Cover; About the Author; Title Page; Copyright ; Contents ; Tables and Figures ; Dedication ; Introduction: Towards a Global Political Economy of the 1% ; Political Economy and the Elite ; The Main Arguments and Structure of the Book ; 1: The Unusual Suspects: Identifying the Global 1%; The Professor and the Prince ; Income and Wealth: A Primer; A Taxonomy of the Global 1% ; Holding Wealth ; The Geography of the 1% ; Billionaireville ; The Rest of Us ; 2: Capital as Power and the 1% ; A Brief Genealogy of the Term 'Capital' ; Corporate America and the Rise of Capitalisation. Capital as Power The Capitalist Mode of Power ; The Architecture of Capitalisation ; 3: Wealth, Money and Power ; A Brief History of Wealth before Political Economy ; Mercantilism ; The Birth of Classical Political Economy ; The General Theory of Money, Energy and Power ; 4: Differential Consumption: The Rise of Plutonomy; The Global Plutonomy ; Conspicuous Consumption in the First Gilded Age ; Differential Consumption in the New Gilded Age ; 'The Rich are Destroying the Earth' ; 5: Society versus the Superman Theory of Wealth; From Hobbes to Locke's Theory of Ownership. Rousseau, Bentham and Mainstream Economics Veblen's Political Economy ; Unjust Deserts ; The Distribution of Wealth and Capital as Power ; 6: The Party of the 99%: Resistance and Future Prospects; Occupy in Context ; Five Reasons Why Present Trends Will Likely Continue ; Ten Priorities ; Creativity, Power and the Meaning of Life ;Front Cover; About the Author; Title Page; Copyright ; Contents ; Tables and Figures ; Dedication ; Introduction: Towards a Global Political Economy of the 1% ; Political Economy and the Elite ; The Main Arguments and Structure of the Book ; 1: The Unusual Suspects: Identifying the Global 1%; The Professor and the Prince ; Income and Wealth: A Primer; A Taxonomy of the Global 1% ; Holding Wealth ; The Geography of the 1% ; Billionaireville ; The Rest of Us ; 2: Capital as Power and the 1% ; A Brief Genealogy of the Term 'Capital' ; Corporate America and the Rise of Capitalisation. Capital as Power The Capitalist Mode of Power ; The Architecture of Capitalisation ; 3: Wealth, Money and Power ; A Brief History of Wealth before Political Economy ; Mercantilism ; The Birth of Classical Political Economy ; The General Theory of Money, Energy and Power ; 4: Differential Consumption: The Rise of Plutonomy; The Global Plutonomy ; Conspicuous Consumption in the First Gilded Age ; Differential Consumption in the New Gilded Age ; 'The Rich are Destroying the Earth' ; 5: Society versus the Superman Theory of Wealth; From Hobbes to Locke's Theory of Ownership. Rousseau, Bentham and Mainstream Economics Veblen's Political Economy ; Unjust Deserts ; The Distribution of Wealth and Capital as Power ; 6: The Party of the 99%: Resistance and Future Prospects; Occupy in Context ; Five Reasons Why Present Trends Will Likely Continue ; Ten Priorities ; Creativity, Power and the Meaning of Life ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index ; Back Cover. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- London, UK : Zed Books Ltd
- Publication Date:
- 2015
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 330.16
Wealth
Distribution (Economic theory)
Political economy
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference
Distribution (Economic theory)
Wealth
Electronic books
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- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781783601448
1783601442
9781783601455
1783601450
1783601434
9781783601431
1336148217
9781336148215 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781783601431
9781783601424
9781783601462 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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