have argued that fraud is an intrinsic part of the history of capitalism. In his study on counterfeiting, for example, historian Stephen Mihm (2007: 11) goes so far as to say: “At its core, capitalism was little more than a confidence game” (see also
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Tom Rockmore
9/11 represents less a tear in the fabric of history, or a break with the past, than an inflection in ongoing historical processes, such as the continued expansion of capitalism that at some recent time has supposedly attained a level of globalization. This paper considers the relation of war and politics with respect to three instances arising in the wake of 9/11, including the war in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq, and finally the global war on terror (GWT). I argue that these wars are superficially dissimilar, but that on a deeper level they all relate to a single ideological position that is an important motivation in current US foreign policy, and that this position is further related to capitalism.
A Few Bad Apples or the Logic of Capitalism?
Neoliberal Globalization in the Economic Crime Drama Since the Millennial Turn
Sabine von Dirke
socially responsible market capitalism, the social market economy ( some , soziale Marktwirtschaft ). “The social market economy is characterized by government regulation in order to balance out the inequalities produced by unfettered capitalism and thus
In German Politics and Society
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- 01 Dec 2021
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Anne-Christine Trémon
This article examines the process of neoliberalization in the Shenzhen special economic zone in Guangdong Province, China. Building on the case study of a former peasant and almost single-lineage village that has become a part of the city of Shenzhen, I show how neoliberal principles aimed at advancing the transition to capitalism are combined with and countered by other ethical traditions. Owing to the long-standing conception of the lineage as an enterprise, the maintenance of the lineage structure in the transformation of the rural collectives has offered fertile ground for the emergence of a local capitalist coalition. Yet the current discourses on the necessity of obliterating the remains of the collective economy and introducing individual ownership run counter to the collectivist values of the lineage village community and the embeddedness of its economy in kinship and territorial ties. I further illustrate this discordance by the way in which the villagers managed to save their founding ancestor's grave site following government requests to clear the land by removing tombs. These policies form a complex blend of state interventions in the economy, neoliberal governance, and Confucian principles.
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Marxian anthropology resurgent
Patrick Neveling and Luisa Steur
modes of capitalist exploitation and thus mark a resurgence and advancement of the discipline’s long-standing, polyphonic Marxian approaches. Their shared focus is not only to record and analyze the vicissitudes of neoliberal capitalism but also to build
Hadas Weiss
. Meillassoux wrote primarily about precapitalist agricultural communities, but in sketching on their basis a model of social reproduction that incorporates social investments and powers, and in foregrounding the reproductive orders by which capitalism sustains
Neoliberalism, the Left and the Rise of the Far Right
On the Political and Ideological Implications of Capitalism's Subordination of Democracy
Costas Panayotakis
Rogers 2011: 13-15 ). Capitalism's defining principles imply that, despite liberal democracy's foundation upon freedom of speech and assembly, the presence of free and competitive elections, and so on ( Hawkesworth 2002: 298 , Haerpfer 2009: 314
In Democratic Theory
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Hadas Weiss
Focaal' s recent Forum discussion, prompted by Jan Newberry and Rachel Rosen's (2020) “Women and children together and apart: Finding the time for social reproduction theory,” takes a fresh view on finance capitalism by foregrounding its
Pivots and Levers
Political Rhetoric around Capitalism in Britain from the 1970s to the Present
Neil Foxlee
around capitalism , this article seeks to demonstrate the way in which political agents attempt to persuade the public by bringing positive and negative evaluative terms to bear on contentious political issues. While scholars frequently seek to (re
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Jun 2018
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- 75–99 (25 total)
Sylvia Yanagisako
Recent anthropological studies of Italy have presented vivid and compelling accounts of the anxieties about precarity and economic dependence that have emerged as both state protections of employment and social welfare provisions have weakened. This essay, in contrast, argues that for a substantial sector of the Italian populace, work relations have been governed less by a state‐regulated regime of labour than by kinship ideologies and relations. Since the beginning of industrial manufacturing in the mid‐19th century and continuing into the 21st century, family firms have been the dominant employer in Italy. By following the changes in the silk industry and its allied clothing manufacturing sector in the 25 years from 1985 to 2010, this essay shows how aspirations and ascriptions of economic independence and dependence among firm owners, their children and hired managers are shaped by kinship relations and class trajectories.
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
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- 01 Aug 2020
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- 700–713 (13 total)