Tag: economics

• The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View

  Capitalism, in Ellen Meiksins Wood’s account, acquires determinate form within history rather than it being a timeless inevitability. The distinctive stake of The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View is to replace narratives of smooth “commercial evolution” with a precise specification of the social property relations that generated uniquely capitalist imperatives—market dependence, competitive accumulation, systematic…

  S. Gros

  November 15, 2025

  Philosophy

  books, capitalism, economics, economy, education, history, metaphysics, Philosophy, Politics

• Capitalism in the Age of Catastrophe: The Newest Developments of Financial Capital in Times of Polycrisis

  Achim Szepanski’s Capitalism in the Age of Catastrophe: The Newest Developments of Financial Capital in Times of Polycrisis is a searing philosophical interrogation of the late-capitalist world system as it collides with an era of unprecedented crises. Rooted in an intricate synthesis of Marxist economic analysis and the radical critiques of Georges Bataille and Jean…

  S. Gros

  December 16, 2024

  Philosophy, Politics

  capitalism, economics, history, marxism, Philosophy, Politics