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    Seventeen...

    Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism

    Engelstalige paperback, in zeer goede staat

    What I am seeking here is a better understanding of the contradictions of capital, not of capitalism. I want to know how the economic engine of capitalism works the way it does, and why it might stutter and stall and sometimes appear to be on the verge of collapse. I also want to show why this economic engine should be replaced, and with what. --from the Introduction
    To modern Western society, capitalism is the air we breathe, and most people rarely think to question it, for good or for ill. But knowing what makes capitalism work--and what makes it fail--is crucial to understanding its long-term health, and the vast implications for the global economy that go along with it.
    In Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism, the eminent scholar David Harvey, author of A Brief History of Neoliberalism, examines the internal contradictions within the flow of capital that have precipitated recent crises. He contends that while the contradictions have made capitalism flexible and resilient, they also contain the seeds of systemic catastrophe. Many of the contradictions are manageable, but some are fatal: the stress on endless compound growth, the necessity to exploit nature to its limits, and tendency toward universal alienation. Capitalism has always managed to extend the outer limits through spatial fixes, expanding the geography of the system to cover nations and people formerly outside of its range. Whether it can continue to expand is an open question, but Harvey thinks it unlikely in the medium term future: the limits cannot extend much further, and the recent financial crisis is a harbinger of this.
    David Harvey has long been recognized as one of the world s most acute critical analysts of the global capitalist system and the injustices that flow from it. In this book, he returns to the foundations of all of his work, dissecting and interrogating the fundamental illogic of our economic system, as well as giving us a look at how human societies are likely to evolve in a post-capitalist world.

    David Harvey ;

    € 7,50

    The entrepreneural state

    The entrepreneural state

    Paperback in zeer goede staat. Engelstalig.

    Companies like Google and Apple heralded the information revolution, and opened the doors for Silicon Valley to grow into an engine of dazzling technological development, that today champions the free market that engendered it against the supposedly stifling encroachment of government regulation. But is that really the case? In this sharp and controversial expose,The Entrepreneurial State, Mariana Mazzucato debunks the pervasive myth that the state is a laggard, bureaucratic apparatus at odds with a dynamic private sector. Instead she reveals in case study after case study that, in fact, the opposite is true: the state is our boldest and most valuable innovator.

    The technology revolution would never have happened without support from the US Government. The breakthroughsGPS, touch-screen displays, the Internet, and voice-activated AIthat enabled legendary Apple products to be smart successes were, in fact, all developed with support from the state. Mazzucato reveals that many successful entrepreneurs like Steve Jobs integrated state-funded technological developments into their products and then reaped the rewards themselves. The algorithm behind Google’s search engine was initially sponsored by NASA. And 75% of NMEsnew, often-ground-breaking drugs not derivative of existing substancestrace their research to National Institutes of Health (NIH) labs. The American government, it turns out, has been enormously successfully at stimulating scientific and technological advancement.

    But by 2009, just some months following the Great Recessionthe US government, constrained by austerity measures, started disinvesting from its holdings in research fields like health, energy, electronics. The trend is likely to continue, and the repercussions of these policies could wreak havoc on our technology and science sectors. But Mazzucato remains optimistic. If managed correctly, state-sponsored development of Green technology, for instance, could be as efficacious as suburbanization & post-war reconstruction in the mid-twentieth century, and unleash a wide-spread golden age in the global economy.

    The limitations of natural resources and the threat of global warming could become the most powerful driver of growth, employment, and innovation within just one generationbut to be successful, the Green Revolution will depend on the initiatives of proactive governments. By not admitting the State’s role in economic and technological progress, we are socializing only the risks of investing in innovation, while privatizing the rewards in the hands of only a few businesses. This, Mazzucato argues, hurts both future of innovation and equity in modern-day capitalism.

    For policy-makers, Silicon Valley start-up founders, venture-capitalists, and economists alike,The Entrepreneurial State stirs up much needed debate and offers up a brilliant corrective to spurious beliefs: to thrive, American businesses have always and will need to depend on the support of our country’s most audacious entrepreneur, the state.

    Mariana Mazzucato;

    € 8,50

    Reassembling the...

    Reassembling the Social, An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory

    Hardback met stofomslag in zeer goede staat. Engelstalig. Geillustreerd.

    Reassembling the Social is a fundamental challenge from one of the world's leading social theorists to how we understand society and the 'social'. Bruno Latour's contention is that the word 'social', as used by Social Scientists, has become laden with assumptions to the point where it has become misnomer. When the adjective is applied to a phenomenon, it is used to indicate a stablilized state of affairs, a bundle of ties that in due course may be used to account for another phenomenon. But Latour also finds the word used as if it described a type of material, in a comparable way to an adjective such as 'wooden' or 'steely'. Rather than simply indicating what is already assembled together, it is now used in a way that makes assumptions about the nature of what is assembled. It has become a word that designates two distinct things: a process of assembling; and a type of material, distinct from others. Latour shows why 'the social' cannot be thought of as a kind of material or domain, and disputes attempts to provide a 'social explanations' of other states of affairs. While these attempts have been productive (and probably necessary) in the past, the very success of the social sciences mean that they are largely no longer so. At the present stage it is no longer possible to inspect the precise constituents entering the social domain. Latour returns to the original meaning of 'the social' to redefine the notion, and allow it to trace connections again. It will then be possible to resume the traditional goal of the social sciences, but using more refined tools. Drawing on his extensive work examining the 'assemblages' of nature, Latour finds it necessary to scrutinize thoroughly the exact content of what is assembled under the umbrella of Society. This approach, a 'sociology of associations', has become known as Actor-Network-Theory, and this book is an essential introduction both for those seeking to understand Actor-Network Theory, or the ideas of one of its most influential proponents.

    Bruno Latour;

    € 35,00

    De eeuwigheid, Op zoek...

    De eeuwigheid, Op zoek naar het begin der tijden

    Dikke paperback in goede staat. Rug verkleurd. Lichte gebruikssporen. Fotokatern.

    Wanneer is de wereld precies ontstaan? Deze vraag heeft generaties wetenschappers en filosofen, maar ook bizarre fantasten eeuwenlang geïntrigeerd. Dit begin is het uitgangspunt van ons eventuele begrip van het universum, of het bewijs van het bestaan van God.De eeuwigheid - op zoek naar het begin der tijden is een verhaal over wetenschap, religie en filosofie. Het is een boek over de intense strijd om de oorsprong van het menselijke bestaan te definiëren en vast te leggen. // Recensie(s) :Dit boek beschrijft in chronologische volgorde de ontwikkeling van het denken over het begin der tijden: wanneer is het leven op aarde begonnen, wanneer is de aarde ontstaan, en wanneer is het heelal ontstaan? Het begint met beschavingen in de Oudheid (Grieken, Romeinen, Indiers) en eindigt met recent onderzoek van moderne astronomen. De Ierse bisschop Usscher zorgde ervoor dat het idee dat de wereld 4004 jaar voor Christus zou zijn ontstaan, voor eeuwen aangehouden werd. Van daar gaan we naar de moderne wetenschap, die het ontstaan van de wereld en het heelal via gedetailleerde metingen aan hemellichamen veel en veel verder terug in de tijd heeft gelegd. Het boek vertelt ook over de weerstand tegen nieuwe inzichten die er vaak was, deels omdat de oude denkwijzen een religieuze grondslag hadden. Het geheel is geschreven in een verhalende, leesbare stijl; de auteur heeft hiermee dan ook veel ervaring in de vorm van geschreven en gefilmde wetenschapsjournalistiek (o.a. op Discovery Channel). Hij beschrijft het wel en wee van de 'hoofdrolspelers' op een directe manier, wat het verhaal dichterbij de lezer brengt. Zonder afbeeldingen, maar met uitgebreide noten en bronvermelding plus een bibliografie.

    Martin Gorst;

    € 5,00
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