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Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

, 2020
Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ”postmodernism”. Jameson’s inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from “high” art to “low” from market ideology to architecture, from ...
F. Jameson
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The Substitution of Capital for Capital

The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1971
A LTHOUGH homogeneous capital stocks remain a frequent construct in growth theory and the literature on production relations, economists have not missed the fact that trucks are not lathes. Thus considerable effort has gone into specifying the conditions under which aggregation is conceptually permissible.1 Recently, the aggregation of capital services
Boddy, Raford, Gort, Michael
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Capitalism and Capital

2021
Law and Society as a field and set of scholarly practices does not typically address abstract terms such as capital and capitalism. Both terms have an accumulated history, a politics, and a developed and engaged scholarly literature. This chapter suggests that studying lawyer/agent/brokers is essential to see the role of law in relation to capitalism ...
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Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism

, 2020
The book deals with the increase in deaths as a result of ‘deaths of despair’. The title of the book is Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism. The book was written by Anne Case and Angus Deaton. The book is generally well written and consists of
A. Case, A. Deaton
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The costs of connection: how data is colonizing human life and appropriating it for capitalism

Critical Studies in Media and Communication, 2020
It is not uncommon for the Internet to be described in overwhelmingly bleak terms. It seems we’re hardly able to go a week without another headline about how Facebook is subverting user privacy or ...
Ben T. Pettis
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Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It?

Economic Geography, 2021
Over the past decade, Anglophone geographic political economy has experienced a renewed interest in long-dormant theories of land rent, alongside a growing interest in intellectual property, resources, financialization, infrastructure, and platform ...
E. Sheppard
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The New Spirit of Capitalism

, 2005
A century after the publication of Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism, a major new work examines network-based organization, employee autonomy and post-Fordist horizontal work structures.
Luc Boltanski, Eve Chiapello
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On capital investment

Algorithmica, 1996
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Yossi Azar, Yair Bartal, Esteban Feuerstein, Amos Fiat, Stefano Leonardi 0001, Adi Rosén   +5 more
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The urban process under racial capitalism: Race, anti-Blackness, and capital accumulation

Journal of Race, Ethnicity and the City, 2021
This paper employs racial capitalism as a framework for understanding the urban process. The purpose of this paper is two-fold: (1) to center the racial character of the urban process within a broader political economy of racial capitalism and (2) to ...
Prentiss A. Dantzler
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Theorizing Gentrification as a Process of Racial Capitalism

City & Community, 2021
Academics largely define gentrification based on changes in the class demographics of neighborhood residents from predominately low-income to middle-class. This ignores that gentrification always occurs in spaces defined by both class and race.
Zawadi Rucks-Ahidiana
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