Titlebook: Vampire Capitalism; Fractured Societies Paul Kennedy Book 2017 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 modernity.poverty.clim

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Introduction: Capitalist Modernity in Question,amely, the drive to create, extract and accumulate wealth in a competitive market. This, in turn, generates the relentless engine of economic growth at local, sectoral and international levels and pushes capital to overwhelm and commercialize ever more aspects of non-economic life. The chapter then

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The Rise of Vampire Capitalism (and not a slayer in sight),conomic life is etched in capitalism’s DNA. During the last 40 years or so, this unequal and uneven yet improving trajectory of capitalist advance over more than 200 years has become increasingly distorted by the rise of an unashamedly predatory capitalism. This vampire form applies particularly to

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The Roots of Vampire Capitalism,l basis of economic life centred partly on Fordism combined to keep capitalism in check. Yet as each lost its capacity to constrain capitalism, so three interlocking structural transformations, gathered pace from the 1960s and increasingly freed capital to roam the world largely unfettered: industri

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Living with Twenty-First-Century Capitalism,of dogmatic neoliberal policies in a globalized world—‘there is no alternative’—and the various ways they are propelling economic life into a downward spiral: stagnant wages for most people, rising inequality, falling tax revenues and consequently a deficiency of effective demand across the global e

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The Juggernaut of Science and Technology: Friend or Foe?, benefits, yet there is also concern that it shares some of the culpability alongside capitalism for the risks now faced by world society—including climate change and pollution, the incalculable dangers of nuclear/chemical/biological warfare and technological unemployment. We also need to remember t

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Individualization and the Cultures of Capitalism, conjure a desire for new experiences and the satisfaction of spiralling wants. Thus, Bauman explains how ‘solid’ modernity, based around the fusion of societal interests, has given way to today’s ‘liquid’ form. Here, everything is in flux, and individualization—the demand for self-realization—has b

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Does Capitalism Have a Future?,ses of mass technological unemployment and climate change but also the rise of the knowledge economy and the impact of growing socio-economic divisions? First, we outline the recent anxieties expressed by conservative IGOs, such as the IMF and OECD, concerning the world economy’s low-growth performa

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Alternatives: Exploring Possibilities,unemployment, poverty, ageing societies, ethnic conflicts, food and water shortages, ecological mass migration, and so on? The obstacles are formidable, and there are few certainties. Nevertheless, we can learn from past and surviving alternative social formations while drawing on the innate human c

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