...Through a comparison of Karl Marx, Georg Simmel, Werner Sombart, and Max Weber, this chapter identifies two patterns in how they conceived the relationship between modern capitalism and the Jews. On the one hand, modern economic life is described as the universalization of a Jewish spirit...

... together the tattered legal geography of internal finance – and the relationship between finance capitalism and racial capitalism. Arosemena Pablo Bunau Varilla Philippe Jean International Banking Corporation IBC Morgan James Morris Panama Segurança ship Amador Guerrero Manuel Boyd Federico...

... decentralization deregulation diversification Farnham Roger Leslie Haiti military intervention Stillman James Vanderlip Frank A Allen John H Astor John Jacob Bank of the United States Farmers Loan and Trust Company finance capitalism Hamilton Alexander Osgood Samuel racial capitalism slavery...

... regulation foreign banking securities branch banking imperialism corruption Caribbean banking law finance capitalism The City Bank’s Roger L. Farnham was a frequent visitor to Cuba in the years before and after his 1921 testimony before the US Congress on the bank’s involvement in the US occupation...

...Hayek and the Evolution of Capitalism offers a fresh perspective on the thought of Nobel Laureate in economics F. A. Hayek, and an evaluation of key theoretical elements that are often overlooked in his work. In order to understand Hayek’s influential defense of the free market it is necessary...

... of global capitalism. The book’s argument puts these two narratives in dialogue and shows how both must be modified with a better understanding of territory as a complex and changing bundle of ideas, practices, and knowledge. cartography geographic knowledge GPS Gulf War military mapping scale Vietnam...

...The introduction outlines the aims of the book and the perspective adopted. The importance of adequate definitions of key terms is stressed. This vital task of conceptual precision has been downgraded and the meaning of several key terms has been corrupted. Important theorists of capitalism...

...Figure 1.1. The birth of capitalism: GDP per capita in pioneering capitalist countries. Data source: Maddison (2007, 382) . GDP (PPP) per capita in 1990 international dollars. Chapter 1 outlines the philosophical and historical considerations involved in defining capitalism...

...It is noted that “evolution” is a very vague and ambiguous word. Rather than trying to give it a specific meaning, it is better to consider the types of phenomena under investigation. The notion that capitalism goes through pre-ordained stages of development is downplayed. Instead it is argued...

...The afterword returns to an enigma of biopolitical modernity: that commensurate with the extension of animal rights, in the form of animal welfare laws, has been a radical intensification of the exploitation of animal bodies under agro-capitalism. Any post-humanist theory of justice, it argues...

...This introductory chapter discusses the history of bookselling and the book trade in the U.S. It addresses the question of how book professionals position themselves in relation to some general principles of capitalism, including competition, profitability, growth, efficiency, and impersonality...

... and capitalism in the early twenty-first century. At its core, that relationship is predicated on the exercise of rending objects and ideas, commodities and conflicts, virtuous. The introduction also provides an extensive reflection on the conditions of access that enabled the research and the complex ethics...

... the observer looks at different entities combining in certain patterns. These three interrelated observational modes are thought to be central for the boundaries of finance under modern capitalism. identity markets financial access to calculation club day trading investor behavior legitimacy boundaries...

...This chapter is a defence of democracy and human rights. It opens with some examples of Left apologetics for repressive Communism in Russia, China and Cambodia. There is a comparison of death tolls, first between capitalism and Communism, and second between democratic capitalism and despotisms...

... theoretical critiques and from practical catastrophes. Socialism – at least in the classic sense – is dead. The welfare state, perhaps also with a significant public sector, is not. Dealing with inequality within capitalism is also vital. The real debate concerns what direction we would wish to take...

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...—had grown during Malawi’s “lost decades” after structural adjustment, and was pregnant in a time of hunger. Six principles guided structural adjustment: government budgets should be small; taxation should be low; regulation should be restricted; capital should flow easily across national borders...

...This chapter argues that climatic concerns shaped debates over the future of American capitalism. Whether they sought to exalt or critique capitalism, many Gilded Age authors invoked climate in their writings on political economy. Some expansionists portrayed climate improvement as the ultimate...

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