Accumulating Capital Today : Contemporary Strategies of Profit and Dispossessive Policies, Paperback / softback Book

Accumulating Capital Today : Contemporary Strategies of Profit and Dispossessive Policies Paperback / softback

Edited by Marlene (Paris-Dauphine University, France) Benquet, Theo (University College Dublin, Ireland) Bourgeron

Part of the Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought series

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This book explores the renewal of forms of capital accumulation and the institutions that shape it.

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.

It thus offers a new understanding of the economic and political logics of capital accumulation within capitalism in the 21st century.

It shows the recomposition of the sources of profit, from the traditional mechanisms of labor exploitation to the contemporary logics of speculation and dispossession.

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.

This book heralds the emergence of "accumulation studies" and will be of interest to researchers in sociology, anthropology, politics, political economy, geography and economics.

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