Naslov
Lemmings in the casino: metamorphoses of the crises of capitalist accumulation

Autori
Mraović, Branka ; Crowther, David

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Excess & Organization

Urednik/ci
Gustafsson, Claes ; Rehn, Alf ; Skold, David

Izdavač
Department of Industrial Management and Organization, Royal Institute of Technology

Grad
Stockholm

Godina
2005

Raspon stranica
139-161

ISBN
91-7178-113-7

Ključne riječi
crises, capitalist accumulation, money, state

Sažetak
Following Braudel's conceptualization of capitalism and Arrighi's periodization of systemic cycles of accumulation, the authors focus on the patterns of recurrence of financial expansions enabling capitalism to revitalize itself through crisis ; in this, crisis is considered in both aspects - crisis-as-restructuring and crisis-as-rupture. The ways in which finance aided by the blocks of governmental and business agencies in the present stage affects investment and business cycles result in a progressive increase of inequality between rich and poor countries, as well as inequality within the most developed countries. The authors tackle the crisis phenomenon through a genealogical analysis of the formation, consolidation and disintegration of the successive regimes of accumulation on a world scale through which the capital economy expands. They futhermore examine the crisis of capitalist accumulation through the relation of money and the state, which leads them to the field of debates on the changed relationship between the global economy and the national state. However, the crisis is also marked by a milestone which, despite dangers and pitfalls, opens up endless possilibities. They end the paper with a critique of the politics of money and advocate a socially responsible finance management, which will pave the way for the structure of society in which humanity will exist as an end in itself, rather than as a resource for the accumulation of money.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija

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