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The super-rich : the unjust new world of global capitalism / Stephen Haseler.
Lippincott Library HC79.W4 H375 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Haseler, Stephen, 1942-2017.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wealth.
- Rich people.
- Capitalism.
- Income distribution.
- International trade.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 208 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- This book describes the dangerous growing tensions caused throughout the West by triumphant new global capitalism. The author outlines how a new global super rich caste has emerged during a period in which the traditional "middle class" is facing serious insecurity and income loss. He argues that this new super rich capitalism, if not balanced by a renewal of the state and community, will not only destroy politics and governance, but democracy as well.
- Contents:
- 1 The New World 1
- The super-rich 1
- Who are the billionaires? 4
- Comparisons 7
- Richer still, yet richer 10
- Getting greedier? 11
- Anyone for noblesse oblige? 12
- Where is the money? 12
- Families and corporations 13
- Family inheritance 15
- A ruling class? 17
- An overclass? 19
- 'The world is in the hands of these guys' 24
- Onward and upward 25
- 2 The Super-Rich Game 27
- The up-escalator to Brazil 27
- Capital unbound (globalisation) 29
- You ain't seen nothin' yet 31
- Fear and blackmail: 'the Faustian pact' 32
- Have we been here before? 33
- Technology 36
- Corporate unbound: space stations circling the Earth 37
- Corporations and free trade 40
- Hostages to the system: pensions 41
- 3 The Rest of Us (or the End of the Western Dream) 43
- That sinking feeling 43
- Inequality 43
- Wealth 46
- Tolerating inequality 48
- The end of the middle class 51
- Sinking ships: lower living standards 52
- Flexible labour (part-time working) 54
- Hidden unemployment 56
- Insecurity 57
- The devaluation of wages (and work) 59
- Wages versus profits 60
- Wages versus inheritance (or the rise of sleeping money) 60
- The working poor 61
- 4 Super-Rich Capitalism: An Audit 63
- What capitalism was 63
- What capitalism is 64
- Popular capitalism? 64
- Rights 67
- The work ethic 68
- Meritocracy 69
- Individualism 70
- Risk 70
- The inheritance culture: a return to feudalism 72
- Inheritance: the super-rich welfare state 74
- The reactionary nature of the global market 77
- The return of aristocracy 79
- New capitalism, new values 82
- New capitalism, new man 85
- 5 A World without Politics 87
- A distaste for politics 87
- Causes 90
- The coming world without politics 92
- The persistence of politics 93
- Politics and the nation-state 94
- Business and the Victorian nation 95
- Business and the twentieth-century nation 97
- Business, democracy and war 101
- Politics, business and war 103
- The Cold War, politics and business 104
- The end of national sovereignty 108
- The end of national identity? 114
- Individualism and nation 116
- The temporary nation 118
- The death of the state 120
- 6 A World without Democracy? 122
- Freedom and liberty 123
- George Soros and the idea of 'compulsion' 124
- The state and the law 125
- Conflict resolution and an age of peace 126
- People rule 128
- Participation 129
- Minorities 132
- Rights 133
- Pluralism 134
- 7 The Next Phase: The Brave New World of the Minimal State 137
- Still triumphant 137
- A secular religion 138
- Rewriting the history of the state 140
- The minimal state 142
- The minimal state project 144
- Taxes 145
- Globalism and the minimalist breakthrough 146
- Minimum welfare 147
- Minimal regulation 149
- Minimal international political order 149
- The victory of free trade 151
- Free trade ideology 153
- Here to stay? 154
- The handmaiden state 154
- 'Bankocracy' 157
- Skilling 158
- Bailouts 159
- Buying the state 161
- 8 The Hope of Europe 164
- A continuous revolution 164
- A comeback for the state? 165
- Global governance 166
- The case of the United States 168
- The European Union (and the coming collision with global capital) 169
- Defending the EU's social-democratic model 171
- The birth of the euro 173
- A 'political' euro 174
- Teething problems 177
- Political trade 178
- Taxing mobile capital 180
- Reforming the corporation 180
- Anglo-America 183
- Social democracy 184
- Luttwak's dilemma 185
- Come back Marx: all is almost forgiven 186.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-205) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0312230052
- OCLC:
- 187483826
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