Vampire Capitalism Fractured Societies and Alternative Futures

Vampire Capitalism Fractured Societies and Alternative Futures / by Paul Kennedy.

This book argues that in recent decades an unrestrained vampire-capitalism has emerged, disengaged from the needs of citizens and workers, leading to a deepening of social class, generational, gender, educational and ethnic divisions. The author explores how our cultural obsession with self-realizat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kennedy, Paul (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Economic policy.
Economics.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Capitalist-modernity in question
  • 2. The Rise of Vampire Capitalism (and not a slayer in sight)
  • 3.The Roots of Vampire Capitalism
  • 4. Living with twenty-first century capitalism
  • 5. The Juggernaut of science and technology: friend or foe?
  • 6. Individualization and the cultures of capitalism
  • 7. Global capitalism and the biosphere: Our future in jeopardy
  • 8. Does Capitalism have a future
  • 9. Alternatives: Exploring Possibilities.

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