Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication page -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Profitability, the Credit System, and the "Destruction of Capital" -- 3 Double, Double, Toil and Trouble: Dot-com Boom and...

In this provocative study, economist Ernesto Screpanti argues that imperialism--far from disappearing or mutating into a benign "globalization"--has in fact entered a new phase, which he terms "global imperialism." This is a phase defined by multinational firms cut loose from the nation-state...