"Investigating the causes of our current global crisis by drawing on the work of Karl Polanyi, Peadar Kirby explores Polanyi's theory that social disruptions are caused by the attempt to run society according to the rules of the market. Kirby uses these ideas to tackle weaknesse…
Machine generated contents note:1.Rethinking the surplus --2.Surplus and freedom --3.Capital's real subsumption of consumption --4.Consumerism and capital's use of science and technology to undercut democracy --5.Capitalism as a force of destruction --6.Futile growth and mountin…
This book interprets contemporary capitalism's economic, ecological and democratic crises as manifestations of a previously unrecognized contradiction: over time the benefits from capitalism's technological dynamism tend to decline even as its threats for humanity and the planet…
"The capitalist mode of destruction traces contemporary capitalism's economic, ecological and democratic crises. Combining insights from a range of disciplines, including psychology, sociology and political economy, Panayotakis interprets these crises as manifestations of a prev…
Essays that critique capitalist origins of worldwide environmental devastation and discuss some exemplary social resistance movements. Analyzes crisis of civilization generated by accumulation of devastating forces and destruction of society's capacity for material reproduction.…
This book intends to be an alert to the fact that the curve measuring environmental costs against the economic benefits of capitalism has irreversibly entered into a negative phase. The prospect of an environmental collapse has been evidenced by the sciences and the humanities s…
