Capitalism

Review – Volunteer Tourism in the Global South

Cori Jakubiak • Sep 21 2015 • Features

Examining our attachments to ethical consumption practices such as volunteer tourism, Vrasti’s book sheds light on its links to capitalism and neoliberal subjectivity.

Review – The Routledge Companion to Ethics, Politics and Organizations

Nicholas Tampio • Sep 5 2015 • Features

This Routledge volume provides an excellent overview of how organization theorists are searching for post-communist paradigms to contest the march of neoliberalism.

The Age of Natural Capital, and Why It Must Be Stopped

Ed Atkins • Jul 30 2015 • Articles

The processes of financialisation are not necessarily beneficial in utilitarian terms but represent something deeper: the continuation of capitalism as usual.

Review – Imperial Subjects: Citizenship in an Age of Crisis and Empire

Vanessa Andreotti • Jun 4 2015 • Features

Mooers’ book offers a refreshing revisited critique of capital and of the varied contradictions of neoliberalism and its impact on ideas of national/global citizenship.

Interview – Minqi Li

E-International Relations • Apr 7 2015 • Features

Professor Li discusses crises of the global economy, the significance of ecological limits to growth, and the imperative for an alternative socialist world system.

Interview – Leo Panitch

E-International Relations • Aug 7 2014 • Features

Professor Panitch explains how he understands imperialism, discusses the value of democratic peace theory, and the inherent problems with US-led global capitalism.

US Political Dysfunction and Capitalism’s Withdrawal

Richard D. Wolff • Oct 27 2013 • Articles

What the October 2013 shutdown of the US government teaches us are new lessons about what is happening to the increasingly abandoned old centers of capitalism.

Review – China’s Development: Capitalism and Empire

Gordon Redding • Jun 6 2013 • Features

This multidisciplinary study of China’s economic reform asserts that a unique mode of capitalism will likely emerge within the state as it gradually works to overcome the strictures of communism.

The Social in the Global: Social Theory, Governmentality and Global Politics

Jonathan Joseph • Oct 19 2012 • Articles

The ‘global’ is a fabrication. However, we should be interested in the idea of the global from the point of view of the governable space that contemporary social theory helps to construct.

Profit Pathology

Michael Parenti • Jan 27 2011 • Articles

The ‘free marketeers’ continue to take irresponsible risks, plunder the land, poison the seas, sicken whole communities, lay waste to entire regions, and pocket obscene profits.

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