The 1% and the rest of us : a political economy of dominant ownership / Tim Di Muzio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Di Muzio, Tim, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wealth.

Distribution (Economic theory).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Other Title:

One percent and the rest of us

Place of Publication:

London, England : Zed Books, 2015.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

The first historically informed, theoretically rich and empirically detailed study of what Occupy has called the 1%.

Contents:

Front Cover; About the Author; Title Page; Copyright ; Contents ; Tables and Figures ; Dedication ; Introduction: Towards a Global Political Economy of the 1% ; Political Economy and the Elite ; The Main Arguments and Structure of the Book ; 1: The Unusual Suspects: Identifying the Global 1%; The Professor and the Prince ; Income and Wealth: A Primer; A Taxonomy of the Global 1% ; Holding Wealth ; The Geography of the 1% ; Billionaireville ; The Rest of Us ; 2: Capital as Power and the 1% ; A Brief Genealogy of the Term 'Capital' ; Corporate America and the Rise of Capitalisation.

Capital as Power The Capitalist Mode of Power ; The Architecture of Capitalisation ; 3: Wealth, Money and Power ; A Brief History of Wealth before Political Economy ; Mercantilism ; The Birth of Classical Political Economy ; The General Theory of Money, Energy and Power ; 4: Differential Consumption: The Rise of Plutonomy; The Global Plutonomy ; Conspicuous Consumption in the First Gilded Age ; Differential Consumption in the New Gilded Age ; 'The Rich are Destroying the Earth' ; 5: Society versus the Superman Theory of Wealth; From Hobbes to Locke's Theory of Ownership.

Rousseau, Bentham and Mainstream Economics Veblen's Political Economy ; Unjust Deserts ; The Distribution of Wealth and Capital as Power ; 6: The Party of the 99%: Resistance and Future Prospects; Occupy in Context ; Five Reasons Why Present Trends Will Likely Continue ; Ten Priorities ; Creativity, Power and the Meaning of Life ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index ; Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Vendor-supplied metadata.

ISBN:

9781350222915

1350222917

9781783601455

1783601450

9781783601424

1783601426

9781783601448

1783601442

OCLC:

904437693