Description
Book SynopsisAn innovative Marxist analysis of the new managerial class.
Trade Review'Every serious student of political economy will want to read Gerard Dumenil and Dominique Levy's masterful synthesis of Marxist method, contemporary Econo-physics, and their own theoretical and empirical work on the emergence of neoliberal managerial forms of capitalism on a global scale' -- Duncan K. Foley, Leo Model Professor of Economics, New School for Social Research
Table of ContentsList of Figures
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Introduction
1. An overview
PART I: MODES OF PRODUCTION AND CLASSES
2. Patterns of income distribution
3. Marx’s theory of history
4. Managers in Marx’s analysis
5. Sociality and class societies
6. Managerialism and managerial capitalism
7. A wealth of alternative interpretations
8. Hybridization as analytical challenge
PART II: TWELVE DECADES OF MANAGERIAL CAPITALISM
9. Varying trends of inequality
10. The sequence of social orders
11. Class and imperial power structures
12. The politics of social change
13. Tendencies, crises, and struggles
PART III: PAST ATTEMPTS AT THE INFLECTION OF HISTORICAL DYNAMICS
14. Utopian capitalism in bourgeois revolutions
15. Utopian socialism and anarchism
16. Self-proclaimed scientific socialism
PART IV: PROSPECTS FOR HUMAN EMANCIPATION WITHIN AND BEYOND MANAGERIALISMS
17. The economics and politics of managerialisms
18. The potential of popular struggle
Notes
Index
