The Wrath Of Capital

Download or read book The Wrath of Capital written by Adrian Parr and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although climate change has become the dominant concern of the twenty-first century, global powers refuse to implement the changes necessary to reverse these trends. Instead, they have neoliberalized nature and climate change politics and discourse, and there are indications of a more virulent strain of capital accumulation on the horizon. Adrian Parr calls attention to the problematic socioeconomic conditions of neoliberal capitalism underpinning the worldÕs environmental challenges, and she argues that, until we grasp the implications of neoliberalismÕs interference in climate change talks and policy, humanity is on track to an irreversible crisis. Parr not only exposes the global failure to produce equitable political options for environmental regulation, but she also breaks down the dominant political paradigms hindering the discovery of viable alternatives. She highlights the neoliberalization of nature in the development of green technologies, land use, dietary habits, reproductive practices, consumption patterns, design strategies, and media. She dismisses the notion that the free market can solve debilitating environmental degradation and climate change as nothing more than a political ghost emptied of its collective aspirations. Decrying what she perceives as a failure of the human imagination and an impoverishment of political institutions, Parr ruminates on the nature of change and existence in the absence of a future. The sustainability movement, she contends, must engage more aggressively with the logic and cultural manifestations of consumer economics to take hold of a more transformative politics. If the economically powerful continue to monopolize the meaning of environmental change, she warns, new and more promising collective solutions will fail to take root.

Download or read book The Code of Capital written by Katharina Pistor and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling explanation of how the law shapes the distribution of wealth Capital is the defining feature of modern economies, yet most people have no idea where it actually comes from. What is it, exactly, that transforms mere wealth into an asset that automatically creates more wealth? The Code of Capital explains how capital is created behind closed doors in the offices of private attorneys, and why this little-known fact is one of the biggest reasons for the widening wealth gap between the holders of capital and everybody else. In this revealing book, Katharina Pistor argues that the law selectively “codes” certain assets, endowing them with the capacity to protect and produce private wealth. With the right legal coding, any object, claim, or idea can be turned into capital—and lawyers are the keepers of the code. Pistor describes how they pick and choose among different legal systems and legal devices for the ones that best serve their clients’ needs, and how techniques that were first perfected centuries ago to code landholdings as capital are being used today to code stocks, bonds, ideas, and even expectations—assets that exist only in law. A powerful new way of thinking about one of the most pernicious problems of our time, The Code of Capital explores the different ways that debt, complex financial products, and other assets are coded to give financial advantage to their holders. This provocative book paints a troubling portrait of the pervasive global nature of the code, the people who shape it, and the governments that enforce it.

Download or read book Murder, Capital Punishment, and the Law written by John Stolz and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Industrial Crisis, Or, Giant Labor and Giant Capital Face to Face written by Frederick Charles Lange and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Capital Place written by David Laursen and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Capital Place is how the author remembers Minnesota's historic Sandy Lake: important fur-trading hub, promised land to a succession of Native American tribes, 18th-century capital of the Ojibwe Nation, strategic gateway to the Mississippi River from Lake Superior- and route followed by nearly all the famous men of Minnesota history.

Download or read book The Sights and Secrets of the National Capital written by John B. Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Treatise on Capital, Money, and Riches: Showing the Erroneous Views of Political Economists in Confounding One with the Other written by Charles Enderby and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: