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Trouble of the world : slavery and empire in the age of capital

Sell, Zach - 2021

"In the mid-nineteenth century, U.S. slavery was characterized by relentless expansion and unrelenting exportation, not only of commodities but also of ideas. Zach Sell traces U.S. slavery's significance to colonial land-based dispossessions on a global scale, showing how slavery molded the...

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The sympathetic consumer : moral critique in capitalist culture

Skotnicki, Tad - 2021

"When people encounter goods in the marketplace - sugar, clothes, phones, etc. - there is a slim chance they will seek information about the origins of those goods. Far more likely is that the goods will remain anonymous, and the labor that went into making them, the supply chain through which...

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Flawed capitalism : the Anglo-American condition and its resolution

Coates, David - 2018

In Flawed Capitalism, David Coates draws on his vast experience of economy and society in both the US and the UK to … social settlements, Flawed Capitalism traces the history of the two economies through first their New Deal and then their … Flawed Capitalism is primarily concerned, showing how the underlying fragility of a settlement based on the weakening of …

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Profit, accumulation and crisis in capitalism : long-term trends in UK, US, Japan and China, 1855-2018

Li, Minqi - 2020

"Karl Marx hypothesized that there is a long-term tendency for the profit rate to fall in capitalist economies. Immanuel Wallerstein hypothesized that capitalist development tends to drive up labor cost, material cost, and taxation cost. This book evaluates Marx's and Wallerstein's hypotheses by...