Beyond Capitalism Machines, Work and Property
This book offers a new perspective on the financialisation of the economy and its profound technological transformation in an increasingly interdependent and globalised world. A deterioration of capitalist property has led to the reactivation of pre-capit
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Beyond Capitalism Machines, Work and Property
Beyond Capitalism
Giulio Sapelli
Beyond Capitalism Machines, Work and Property
Giulio Sapelli University of Milan Milano, Italy Translated by Barbara Racah
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For Bruno Amoroso In memoriam
Preface
Markets, politics, crisis The debate on globalisation and financial capitalism rages on, producing unsound scientific results and fuelling popular beliefs. This book puts things on a much sounder footing by adopting a meticulously interdisciplinary approach and rejecting the one-track way of thinking that has dominated the world for the past 30 years, cutting us off from what we know about society and its economic relations. The one-track approach essentially espouses an individualist and behaviourist approach to analysis and methodology and anthropomorphises everything from a materialist and consumerist viewpoint (limitless individual rationalisation for maximising financial utility). My way of thinking is based on the belief that the economy is only part of society: it is determined by society and therefore by interpersonal relationships and personal behaviour. I am entirely against tired old Marxist hypotheses, as well as neoclassical ideas inspired by neo-liberal ideology. According to popular belief, globalisation is a predominantly new, predominantly economic phenomenon that emerged from the relentless race towards modernity, went one step further (post-modernity) and morphed in
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