Cognitive Capitalism

Name: Cognitive Capitalism
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ISBN: 9780745647333

ISBN-10: 0745647332

ISBN-13: 9780745647333

Edition: 2012

Authors: Yann Moulier-Boutang

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We live in a time of transition, argues Yann Moulier Boutang. But the irony is that this is not a transition to a new type of society called &'socialism&', as many on the Left had assumed; rather, it is a transition to a new type of capitalism. Socialism has been left behind by a new revolution in our midst. &'Globalization&' effectively corresponds to the emergence, since 1975, of a third kind of capitalism. It does not have much to do with the industrial capitalism which, at the point of its birth (1750-1820), broke with earlier forms of mercantile capitalism. The aim of this book is to describe and explain the characteristics of this third age of capitalism. Boutang coins the term…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 5/21/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.10" long x 0.84" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Foreword



Preface to the English edition


Illustrations


Introduction



The new frontiers of political economy



What cognitive capitalism is not



What is cognitive capitalism?



New capitalism, new contradictions



The question of social classes and the composition of cognitive capitalism



Macroeconomic deadlock: Going beyond the critique of neoliberalism and financialisation



Envoi: A manifesto for the Pollen Society



Does the financial crisis sound the knell of a cognitive capitalism that is stillborn?


Notes


Bibliography


Index