Wealth and poverty in contemporary Brazilian capitalism

Wealth and poverty in contemporary Brazilian capitalism / Gustavo Moura de Cavalcanti Mello, Henrique Pereira Braga, editors.

This book analyses contemporary capitalism from Brazil and from the Marxian critique of political economy, particularly; the co-dependency of wealth and poverty and of civilization and barbarism; the current tendency towards capital over-accumulation and the specific form assumed by the capitalist c...

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Other Authors: Mello, Gustavo Moura de Cavalcanti, Braga, Henrique Pereira
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Series:Marx, Engels, and Marxisms.
Subjects:
Capitalism > Brazil.
Equality > Brazil.
Poverty > Brazil.
Wealth > Brazil.
Capitalism
Economic history
Economic policy
Equality
Poverty
Wealth
Brazil > Economic conditions.
Brazil > Economic policy.
Brazil
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Series Editor's Foreword
  • Titles Published
  • Titles Forthcoming
  • Foreword: Agenda for "Emerging" Countries
  • Acknowledgements
  • About this Book
  • Contents
  • Editors and Contributors
  • About the Editors
  • Contributors
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 In the Bowels of Capital: On Modern Barbarism
  • Introduction: The Apologetics of Unilateralism and Dualism
  • The Progress of Barbarism and in Barbarism
  • And the Rubble of Progress Accumulates ...
  • Final Considerations
  • References
  • 3 Rethinking Wealth and Poverty in Capitalist Society
  • The Relationship Between the Logical Method and the Historical Method
  • The Case of the Brazilian Economy
  • Final Considerations
  • References
  • 6 Dollar Hegemony Under Challenge and the Rise of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC): A New Form of World Money?
  • Introduction
  • The Saga of the Dollar as the World Money and the Rise of China
  • China Emerging Against the Background of Thucydides' Trap?
  • Currency Race: Decentralised Digital Currencies vs Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC)
  • The Limits of Decentralised Cryptocurrencies That May Prevent Them from Really Functioning as Currency
  • As Means of Exchange
  • As a Measure of Value
  • As Store of Value
  • As Standard of Deferred Payment
  • Digital Fiat Currency as Other Major Competitor: Stablecoin and CBDC
  • Stablecoin: An Extension of Fiat Money
  • State Cryptocurrency: The Late Comer But the Power Player?
  • E-renminbi
  • State Cryptocurrencies and World Money
  • Towards a Digital Currency War? Digital Regionalisation and Competition
  • Gold: A Final Thought
  • Brazil Amid Disputes Over Global Hegemony
  • New Frontier: Digital Hegemony and Digital Governability
  • Final Considerations
  • References
  • 7 Brazil Amid the Structural Crisis of Capital
  • Introduction
  • Production Organised at the Global Level
  • The Subordinate State and Its Particularities in Brazil
  • The Unfinished Democratic Transition and the Escalation of Crises
  • Considerations, Illustrative of Brazilian Subordination
  • References
  • 8 Final Words
  • References
  • Index

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