Spiderweb Capitalism

how global elites exploit frontier markets

A behind-the-scenes look at how the rich and powerful use offshore shell corporations to conceal their wealth and make themselves richer In 2015, the anonymous leak of the Panama Papers brought to light millions of financial and legal documents exposing how the superrich hide their ...

Ganancia social beneficio privado

explotación capitalista y transformación socioeconómica en la economía del conocimiento

Ganancia social, beneficio privado ofrece una revisión crítica del pensamiento de Karl Marx, enfocada en la teoría del valor y lo que el autor denomina catastrofismo profético, la predicción fallida de un colapso inminente del capitalismo. Carlos Tuya cuestiona la relevancia de la teoría clásica ...

Capitalism

the story behind the word

How the history of a word sheds new light on capitalism and modern politics What exactly is capitalism? How has the meaning of capitalism changed over time? And what's at stake in our understanding or misunderstanding of it? In Capitalism, Michael Sonenscher examines the ...

These are the plunderers

how private equity runs -and wrecks- America

Much has been written about the widening gulf between rich and poor and how our style of capitalism has failed to provide a living wage for so many Americans. But nothing has fully detailed the outsized role a small cohort of elite financiers has played ...

The gilded cage

technology, development, and state capitalism in China

How China's economic development combines a veneer of unprecedented progress with the increasingly despotic rule of surveillance over all aspects of life Since the mid-2000s, the Chinese state has increasingly shifted away from labor-intensive, export-oriented manufacturing to a process of socioeconomic development centered on ...

Para que haya futuro

una hoja de ruta para cambiar el mundo

Una brújula para que la izquierda del siglo xxi recupere el norteNuestro mundo está sumido en una serie de procesos que amenazan el futuro de la humanidad. Las guerras, las hambrunas, el cambio climático o el aumento de la desigualdad son expresiones de la crisis ...

¡Reconquista tu tiempo!

vivimos con el reloj equivocado y nos está destruyendo. Un manifiesto

En Cómo no hacer nada, Odell denunciaba la economía de la atención, ahora presenta una crítica feroz al tiempo capitalista. Nuestra vida está dominada por el reloj corporativo al que muchos de nosotros nos adaptamos. Pero este no fue concebido para las personas, sino para ...

The fall and rise of American finance

from J. P. Morgan to BlackRock

The Fall and Rise of American Finance traces the collapse and reconstitution of American financial power from the disintegration of robber baron J. P. Morgan’s vast empire to the rise of finance behemoth BlackRock. Contrary to what is taken for common sense by figures ...

The political thought of Xi Jinping

An authoritative examination of "Xi Jinping Thought"--now the official dogma of the Chinese Communist Party--that marshals Xi's personal words and writings to reveal his plan to make "the China Dream of national rejuvenation" a reality in the coming decades. Over the course of ...

El manifiesto capitalista

por qué el libre mercado global salvará al mundo

Un alegato a favor de la globalización: no es excesiva, sino insuficienteEl libre mercado ha sacado a millones de personas del hambre y la pobreza, una realidad evidente incluso para Marx y Engels. Pese a ello, a principios de este milenio, emergió y proliferó un ...

Tecnofeudalismo

el sigiloso sucesor del capitalismo

El capitalismo ha muerto y el sistema que lo reemplaza no es mejor   Las dinámicas tradicionales del capitalismo ya no gobiernan la economía. Lo que ha matado a este sistema es el propio capital y los cambios tecnológicos acelerados de las últimas dos décadas, que ...

Immediacy or, The style of too-late capitalism

Contemporary cultural style boosts transparency and instantaneity. These are values absorbed from our current economic conditions of "disintermediation": cutting out the middleman. Like Uber, but for art. Immediacy names this style to make sense of what we lose when the contradictions of twenty-first-century capitalism demand ...

El asalto silencioso

cómo las corporaciones derrocaron a la democracia

Con el desmoronamiento de los imperios europeos en el siglo XX, las estructuras de poder que habían dominado el mundo durante los dos siglos anteriores tuvieron que reinventarse. Sin embargo, en lugar de un renacimiento de la democracia, lo que se produjo fue un golpe ...

The end of reality

how four billionaires are selling out our future

At a time when multiple crises are compounding to create epic inequality, four billionaires are hyping schemes that are designed to divert our attention away from issues that really matter. Each scheme - from the metaverse to cryptocurrency, space travel and transhumanism - is an existential threat ...

Silent coup

how corporations overthrew democracy

As European empires crumbled in the 20th century, the power structures that had dominated the world for centuries were up for renegotiation. Yet instead of a rebirth for democracy, what emerged was a silent coup - namely, the unstoppable rise of global corporate power. Exposing the ...

The crisis of democratic capitalism

We are living in an age when economic failings have shaken faith in global capitalism. Political failings have undermined trust in liberal democracy and in the very notion of truth. The ties that ought to bind open markets to free and fair elections are being ...

The crisis of democratic capitalism

We are living in an age when economic failings have shaken faith in global capitalism. Political failings have undermined trust in liberal democracy and in the very notion of truth. The ties that ought to bind open markets to free and fair elections are being ...

Progressive Capitalism

How to Make Tech Work for All of Us

Unequal access to technology and the revenue it creates is one of the most pressing issues in the United States. An economic gulf exists between those who have struck gold in the tech industry and those left behind by the digital revolution; a geographic divide ...

Capitalism in the Twenty-first Century

through the prism of value

Contemporary capitalism is always evolving. From digital technologies to cryptocurrencies, current trends in political economy are much discussed, but often little understood. So where can we turn for clarity? As Michael Roberts and Guglielmo Carchedi argue, new trends don't necessarily call for new theory ...

Capitalism on edge

how fighting precarity can achieve radical change without crisis or utopia

The wake of the financial crisis has inspired hopes for dramatic change and stirred visions of capitalism's terminal collapse. Yet capitalism is not on its deathbed, utopia is not in our future, and revolution is not in the cards. In Capitalism on Edge, Albena ...