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The Master's Tools "How Finance Wrecked Democracy (And a Radical Plan to Rebuild It)"
Mccarthy, Michael A.
Verso Books (2025)
- EAN: 9781788730662
- Páginas: 257
- Fecha de edición: 2025
pvp.31,95 €
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Why is democracy so broken and how might it be fixed? In The Master's Tools, award-winning author Michael A. McCarthy argues the answer can be found in the flows of credit and investment bound up ...
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Cyberboss "The Rise of Algorithmic Management and the New Struggle for Control at Work"
Gent, Craig
Verso Books (2024)
- EAN: 9781839768552
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2024
pvp.23,35 €
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Across the world, algorithms are changing the nature of work. Nowhere is this clearer than in the logistics and distribution sectors, where workers are instructed, tracked and monitored by increasingly dystopian management technologies.
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Our Lives in Their Portfolios "Why Asset Managers Own the World"
Christophers, Brett
Verso Books (2024)
- EAN: 9781839768996
- Páginas: 310
- Fecha de edición: 2024
pvp.18,50 €
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Banks have taken a backseat since the global financial crisis over a decade ago. Today, our new financial masters are asset managers, like Blackstone and BlackRock. And they don't just own financial assets.
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Multitudes "How Crowds Made the Modern World"
Hancox, Dan
Verso Books (2024)
- EAN: 9781804294482
- Páginas: 258
- Fecha de edición: 2024
pvp.29,95 €
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Despite what politicians, philosophers and the press have long told us, every peaceful crowd is not a violent mob in waiting. Dan Hancox argues it is time to rethink long-held assumptions about crowd behaviour and ...
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Liberalism at Large "The World According to the Economist"
Zevin, Alexander
Verso Books (2021)
- EAN: 9781788739627
- Páginas: 538
- Fecha de edición: 2021
pvp.23,95 €
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In this landmark book, Alexander Zevin looks at the development of modern liberalism by examining the long history of the Economist newspaper, which, since 1843, has been the most tireless - and internationally influential - ...
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How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-Feudalism
Durand, Cedric
Verso Books (2024)
- EAN: 9781804294383
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha de edición: 2024
pvp.24,95 €
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The rise of the IT industry in the nineties promised a new era of freedom and prosperity. It didn't deliver. Certainly, algorithms are everywhere, but capitalism is no more civilised than ever.
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The Automatic Fetish "The Law of Value in Marx's Capital"
Best, Beverley
Verso Books (2024)
- EAN: 9781804294802
- Páginas: 369
- Fecha de edición: 2024
pvp.29,50 €
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The Automatic Fetish traces Marx's analysis of capital, step by step, through the material compiled posthumously as the third volume of Capital. Identifying the critique of value as the central through line of the entire ...
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Work "The Last 1,000 Years"
Komlosy, Andrea
Verso Books (2024)
- EAN: 9781786634139
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha de edición: 2024
pvp.18,50 €
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Andrea Komlosy argues in this important intervention that, when we examine it closely, work changes its meanings according to different historical and regional contexts. Globalizing labour history from the thirteenth to the twenty-first centuries, she ...
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The Eye of the Master "A Social History of Artificial Intelligence"
Pasquinelli, Matteo
Verso Books (2023)
- EAN: 9781788730068
- Páginas: 264
- Fecha de edición: 2023
pvp.23,50 €
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What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the quest "to solve intelligence" - a solution supposedly to be found in the secret logic of the mind or in the deep physiology of the ...
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A History of the Barricade
Hazan, Éric
Verso Books (2023)
- EAN: 9781784781286
- Páginas: 144
- Fecha de edición: 2023
pvp.12,75 €
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In the history of European revolutions, the barricade stands as a glorious emblem. Its symbolic importance arises principally from the barricades of Eric Hazan's native Paris, where they were instrumental in the revolts of the ...
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Class War "A Literary History"
Steven, Mark
Verso Books (2023)
- EAN: 9781839760693
- Páginas: 292
- Fecha de edición: 2023
pvp.26,50 €
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A thrilling and vivid work of history, Class War weaves together literature and politics to chart the making and unmaking of social class through revolutionary combat. In a narrative that spans the globe and more ...
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Capitalism "A Conversation in Critical Theory"
Fraser, Nancy Jaeggi, Rahel
Verso Books (2023)
- EAN: 9781839765117
- Páginas: 244
- Fecha de edición: 2023
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19,95 €En la web:18,95 €
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Capitalism, by the twenty-first century, has brought us an era of escalating, overlapping crisis - ecological, political, social - which we may not survive. In this brilliant, wide-ranging conversation, political philosophers Nancy Fraser and Rahel ...
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The State of Capitalism "Economy, Society, and Hegemony"
Lapavitsas, Costas
Verso Books (2023)
- EAN: 9781839767845
- Páginas: 375
- Fecha de edición: 2023
pvp.27,95 €
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The health emergency that broke out in 2020 is a landmark event in the development of capitalism, confirming the underlying change signalled by the Great Crisis of 2007-9. The Pandemic Crisis has catapulted the state ...
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Climate Change as Class War "Building Socialism on a Warming Planet"
Huber, Matthew T.
Verso Books (2022)
- EAN: 9781788733885
- Páginas: 312
- Fecha de edición: 2022
pvp.24,95 €
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The climate crisis is not primarily a problem of 'believing science' or individual 'carbon footprints' - it is a class problem rooted in who owns, controls and profits from material production. As such, it will ...
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Cannibal Capitalism "How Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet - And What We Can Do About It"
Fraser, Nancy
Verso Books (2022)
- EAN: 9781839761232
- Páginas: 208
- Fecha de edición: 2022
pvp.24,95 €
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Capital is currently cannibalizing every sphere of life-guzzling wealth from nature and racialized populations, sucking up our ability to care for each other, and gutting the practice of politics. In this tightly argued and urgent ...
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After Work "The Fight for Free Time"
Hester, Helen Srnicek, Nick
Verso Books (2023)
- EAN: 9781786633071
- Páginas: 285
- Fecha de edición: 2023
pvp.24,95 €
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Does it ever feel like you have no free time? You come home after work and instead of finding a space of rest and relaxation, you're confronted by a pile of new tasks to complete ...
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New Dark Age "Technology and the End of the Future"
Bridle, James
Verso Books (2023)
- EAN: 9781804290422
- Páginas: 320
- Fecha de edición: 2023
pvp.14,75 €
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From the highly acclaimed author of WAYS OF BEING. We live in times of increasing inscrutability. Our news feeds are filled with unverified, unverifiable speculation, much of it automatically generated by anonymous software. As a ...
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Mute Compulsion "A Marxist Theory of the Economic Power of Capital"
Mau, Soren
Verso Books (2023)
- EAN: 9781839763465
- Páginas: 340
- Fecha de edición: 2023
pvp.28,95 €
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Despite insoluble contradictions, intense volatility and fierce resistance, the crisis-ridden capitalism of the 21st century lingers on. To understand capital's paradoxical expansion and entrenchment amidst crisis and unrest, Mute Compulsionoffers a novel theory of the ...
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Rentier Capitalism "Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It?"
Christophers, Brett
Verso Books (2022)
- EAN: 9781788739757
- Páginas: 480
- Fecha de edición: 2022
pvp.18,95 €
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How did Britain's economy become a bastion of inequality? The author of 'The New Enclosure' provides a forensic examination and sweeping critique of early-21st-century capitalism. Brett Christophers styles this as 'rentier capitalism', in which ownership ...
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Confronting Capitalism "How the World Works and How to Change It"
Chibber, Vivek
Verso Books (2022)
- EAN: 9781839762703
- Páginas: 176
- Fecha de edición: 2022
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14,00 €En la web:13,30 €
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Why is our society so unequal? Why, despite their small numbers, do the rich dominate policy and politics even in democratic countries? Why is it often difficult for working people to organize around common interests? ...
