Platform Capitalism (Srnicek Nick)(Paperback)

Platform Capitalism (Srnicek Nick)(Paperback)

What unites Google and Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, Siemens and GE, Uber and Airbnb? Across a wide range of sectors, these firms are transforming themselves into platforms: businesses that provide the hardware and software foundation for others to operate on. This transformation signals a major

Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work (Srnicek Nick)(Paperback)

A major new manifesto for the end of capitalism Neoliberalism isn't working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant political practices that offer no respite. Inventing the Future is a bold new manifesto for life

Vynalézání budoucnosti - Nick Srnicek, Alex Williams

Práce a společnost, jak je známe, se nám mění před očima. Je potřeba, abychom na tuto změnu byli připraveni. Masarykova demokratická akademie proto přináší do českého prostředí první překlad od Nicka Srnicka. Bestseller Vynalézání budoucnosti. Postkapitalismus a svět bez

Inhuman Power: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Capitalism (Dyer-Witheford Nick)(Paperback)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has seen major advances in recent years. While machines were always central to the Marxist analysis of capitalism, AI is a new kind of machine that Marx could not have anticipated. Contemporary machine-learning AI allows machines to increasingly approach human

Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction (Fulcher James)(Paperback)

What is capitalism? Is capitalism the same everywhere? Is there an alternative? The word 'capitalism' is one that is heard and used frequently, but what is capitalism really all about, and what does it mean? This Very Short Introduction addresses questions such as, 'what is capital?' before

Capitalism: A Short History (Kocka Jrgen)(Paperback)

A comprehensive and concise history of capitalism from its origins to todayIn this authoritative and accessible book, one of the world's most renowned historians provides a concise and comprehensive history of capitalism within a global perspective from its medieval origins to the 2008 financial

Is Capitalism Broken? (Varoufakis Yanis)(Paperback / softback)

A Psychoanalytical-Historical Perspective on Capitalism and Politics (Vianello Mino)(Paperback)

A Psychoanalytical-Historical Perspective on Capitalism and Politics explores how empathy once shaped the collective unconscious, before being replaced by rampant individualistic drive to power. Mino Vianello uses 'radical federalism' to define a new approach to democracy, hoping for an end to the

Consequences of Capitalism - Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance (Chomsky Noam)(Paperback / softback)

Capitalism in America - A History (Greenspan Alan)(Paperback / softback)

Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire (Henderson Rebecca)(Paperback)

Between Capitalism and Community (Lebowitz Michael A.)(Paperback)

Connects the Marxist construct of capitalism to systems of community In this book, Michael Lebowitz deepens the arguments he made in his award-winning, Beyond Capital.Karl Marx, in Capital, focused on capital and the capitalist class that is its embodiment. It is the endlessaccumulation of capital,

The Data Gaze: Capitalism, Power and Perception (Beer David)(Paperback)

A significant new way of understanding contemporary capitalism is to understand the intensification and spread of data analytics. This text is about the powerful promises and visions that have led to the expansion of data analytics and data-led forms of social ordering. It is centrally concerned

After Capitalism, 2nd Edition (Schweickart David)(Paperback)

Since first published in 2002, After Capitalism has offered students and political activists alike a coherent vision of a viable and desirable alternative to capitalism. David Schweickart calls this system Economic Democracy, a successor-system to capitalism which preserves the efficiency strengths

Capitalism and the Camera: Essays on Photography and Extraction (Coleman Kevin)(Paperback)

A provocative exploration of photography's relationship to capitalism, from leading theorists of visual culture. Photography was invented between the publication of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations and Karl Marx and Frederick Engels's The Communist Manifesto. Taking the intertwined development of

Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy: Third Edition (Schumpeter Joseph A.)(Paperback)

The Culture of the New Capitalism (Sennett Richard)(Paperback)

Working Aesthetics: Labour, Art and Capitalism (Child Danielle)(Paperback)

Working Aesthetics is about the relationship between art and work under contemporary capitalism. Whilst labour used to be regarded as an unattractive subject for art, the proximity of work to everyday life has subsequently narrowed the gap between work and art. The artist is no longer considered

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (Schumpeter Joseph A.)(Paperback)

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy remains one of the greatest works of social theory written in the twentieth Century. Schumpeter's contention that the seeds of capitalism's decline were internal, and his equal and opposite hostility to centralist socialism have perplexed, engaged and infuriated

A Foodie's Guide to Capitalism (Holt-Gimnez Eric)(Paperback)

Capitalism drives our global food system. Everyone who wants to end hunger, who wants to eat good, clean, healthy food, needs to understand capitalism. This book will help do that. In his latest book, Eric Holt-Gimenez takes on the social, environmental, and economic crises of the capitalist mode

Democracy and Prosperity: Reinventing Capitalism Through a Turbulent Century (Iversen Torben)(Paperback)

A groundbreaking historical analysis of how global capitalism and advanced democracies mutually support each other It is a widespread view that democracy and the advanced nation-state are in crisis, weakened by globalization and undermined by global capitalism. Torben Iversen and David Soskice

Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe (Loewenstein Antony)(Paperback)

How Capitalism makes a fortune from disaster, poverty and catastropheDisaster has become big business. Best-selling journalist Antony Loewenstein travels across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea, the United States, Britain, Greece, and Australia to witness the reality of disaster

Four Futures: Life After Capitalism (Frase Peter)(Paperback)

Capitalism is going to end Peter Frase argues that increasing automation and a growing scarcity of resources, thanks to climate change, will bring it all tumbling down. In Four Futures, Frase imagines how this post-capitalist world might look, deploying the tools of both social science and

Scarenthood (Roche Nick)(Paperback)