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Accumulating Capital Today: Contemporary Strategies of Profit and Dispossessive Policies book cover

1st Edition

Accumulating Capital Today Contemporary Strategies of Profit and Dispossessive Policies

Edited By Marlène Benquet, Théo Bourgeron Copyright 2021
252 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

252 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

252 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Introduction

MARLENE BENQUET AND THEO BOURGERON

PART 1: Accumulating through the Exploitation of Labour and Nature

1. The dynamics of capital accumulation in managerial capitalism: the United States since World War II

GERARD DUMENIL AND DOMINIQUE LEVY

2. Dispossessive wage labour: understanding accumulation and its crisis in contemporary Cameroon large-scale plantations

GUILLAUME VADOT

3. Between green growth and de-growth: locating the roots of climate change in capitalist accumulation

MATTHEW SOENER

4. Exploring accumulation in the New Green Revolution for Africa. Ecological crisis, agrarian development and bio-capitalism

MAURA BENEGIAMO

PART 2: Accumulating through Financial Investment

5. Constructing a favourable environment for financial accumulation: the case of the City of London Corporation

MATTHEW EAGLETON-PIERCE

6. Collective effort, private accumulation: constructing the Luxembourg investment fund, 1956–2019

SAMUEL WEEKS

7. Financial accumulation and exploitation: the case of leveraged buy-outs

FABIEN FOUREAULT

8. Philanthrocapitalist accumulation and financial inclusion

PHILIP MADER AND LESLEY SHERRATT

PART 3: Accumulating through Digital Technologies

9. Struggling to reform data capitalism: blockchain and the pipe dream of paying up

MORITZ HUTTEN

10. Predation in the age of algorithms: the role of intangible assets

CEDRIC DURAND

11. Ghost management as a central feature of accumulation in corporate capitalism: the case of the global pharmaceutical sector

MARC-ANDRE GAGNON

PART 4: Accumulating Through the Transformation of Profit into Personal Wealth

12. The role of the owner in new capitalist accumulation processes: the case of Finland

HANNA KUUSELA AND ANU KANTOLA

13. Wealth managers, guardians of enrichment: the case of wealth managers in France

CAMILLE HERLIN-GIRET

14. Accumulation and tax professionals: the case of tax consultants in Germany

SILKE OTSCH

15. Why do women accumulate less wealth than men?

CELINE BESSIERE AND SIBYLLE GOLLAC

Biography

Marlène Benquet is Research Fellow at University Paris-Dauphine and CNRS, France.

Théo Bourgeron is Postdoctoral Researcher at University College Dublin, Ireland.

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