Accumulating Capital Today: Contemporary Strategies of Profit and Dispossessive Policies - Accumulating Capital Today: Contemporary Strategies of Profit and Dispossessive Policies -

Accumulating capital Accumulation studies: a critical and materialist approach to accumulation The sources of capital accumulation: labor, finance, technologies, and wealth References Accumulating through the Exploitation of Labour and Nature The Dynamics of Capital Accumulation in Managerial Capitalism: The United States Since World War II Capital accumulation and its analysis Accumulation and growth rates: profiles Accounting for complexes of reciprocal interactions: outline Exploitation and accumulation: the postwar compromise and neoliberalism Capitalist and managerial surpluses Accumulation and consumption during the two social orders The funding of investment - managing the macroeconomy Retained profits and borrowing in the funding of investment Trans- and intr a-gravitational patterns The destruction of fixed capital during periods of perturbation The broken line of steady stales The measurements of the stocks of fixed capital and capacity utilization rates Historical dynamics a la Marx in managerial capitalism Secular tendencies since the Civil War The imprint of historical trends on postwar patterns Notes References Dispossessive Wage Labour: Understanding Accumulation and its Crisis in Contemporary Cameroon Large-scale Plantations Wage labour (re)mobilization and current capital accumulation in Africa Coping with money’s price: plantation worker motives Task work and the grip on gendered bodies: exploiting an incompletely available labour Wages that dispossess: an exploitation pattern and its grip on daily lives Conclusion: labour ethnography and the study of accumulation Notes References Between Green Growth and De-growth: Locating the Roots of Climate Change in Capitalist Accumulation Greening growth or ending it?Specifying growth through capital accumulation Conclusion: decarbonization + decommodification Notes References Exploring Accumulation in the New Green Revolution for Africa. Ecological Crisis, Agrarian Development and Bio-capitalism Production-reproduction, rethinking the boundaries Exploring bio-capitalism: enclosure, debt and ‘bio-labour’Understanding value in (bio) accumulation Conclusions Notes References Accumulating through Financial Investment Constructing a Favourable Environment for Financial Accumulation: The Case of the City of London Corporation Collective Effort, Private Accumulation: Constructing the Luxembourg Investment Fund, 1956–2019 Financial Accumulation and Exploitation: The Case of Leveraged Buy-outs Philanthrocapitalist Accumulation and Financial Inclusion What philanthrocapitalism is What financial inclusion is Philanthrocapitalists and financial inclusion The problem of retained benefit The problem of unaccountable, undemocratic exercise of power The structural problem Conclusion Notes References Accumulating through Digital Technologies Struggling to Reform Data Capitalism: Blockchain and the Pipe Dream of Paying Up The exploitation of labor under contemporary capitalism(s)Blockchain-centered attempts to remedy the exploitation of workers Has labor benefited (yet)?Conclusion Bibliography Predation in the Age of Algorithms: The Role of Intangible Assets What is predation? Veblenian versus Marxist perspective Intangibles, intellectual monopoly and the contemporary means of predation Conclusion Notes References Ghost Management as a Central Feature of Accumulation in Corporate Capitalism: The Case of the Global Pharmaceutical Sector Ghost-managing the social determinants of value Rethinking capital accumulation Ghost-managing the social determinants of value Conclusion References Accumulating through the Transformation of Profit into Personal Wealth The Role of the Owner in New Capitalist Accumulation Processes: The Case of Finland The case study: top earners in Finland From statistics to cultures of ownership Notes References Wealth Managers, Guardians of Enrichment: The Case of Wealth Managers in France From portfolio management to privacy Learning similarity Not too close, not too far away Dealing with a threefold temporality Conclusion Notes References Accumulation and Tax Professionals: The Case of Tax Consultants in Germany Tax professionals: self-regulation, marketable services and political regulation The sector of tax consultancy in Germany Conclusions: integrating tax states and qualified professionals within the concept of accumulation Bibliography Why do Eomen Accumulate Less Wealth than Men?Wealth accumulation, class, and gender Women’s work, men’s salaries From unequal pay to unequal wealth Investigating the making of gender wealth inequality in the family The gender of capital Notes References