Twenty-first Century Inequality & Capitalism Piketty, Marx and Beyond
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Lauren Langman is a Professor of Sociology at the Loyola University of Chicago. He has long worked in the tradition of the Frankfurt School with special concern with the impact of political economy in shaping character, identity and desire, national character, hegemony and social movements, especially global justice movements. He is past president of RC 36, Alienation Research of the International Sociological Association (ISA), chair of the Marxist section of the American Sociological Assocation (ASA) and recipient of its lifetime achievement award.
David A. Smith is a Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Irvine. His research focuses on global commodity chains, world cities and the political economy of the world-system. He is Editor of the International Journal of Comparative Sociology.
Twenty-First Century Inequality & Capitalism collects critiques of Thomas Piketty’s 2014 book from different perspectives, such as those of critical theory, global political economy or public sociology, drawing on the work of Marx or the Marxist tradition.
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Lauren Langman and David A. Smith
Part 1. Broad Reviews and Critiques
1 Class and Inequality in Piketty
Eric Olin Wright
2 Vautrin’s Lesson: Historical Trends, Universal Challenges, and Policy Responses
Basak Kus and Dana Louie
3 Turning Piketty into a Sociologist?
Sylvia Walby
4 Predatory Logics: Going Well beyond Inequality
Saskia Sassen
5 Complex Inequalities in the Age of Financialisation: Piketty, Marx, and Class-Biased Power Resources
Eoin Flaherty
6 Piketty and Patrimonialism: A Frankfurt School Critique of Piketty’s Use of Marx, Weber, Political Economy, and Comparative Historical Sociology
J. I. (Hans) Bakker
7 The Missing Element in Piketty’s Work
Roslyn Wallach Bologh
8 Critical Theory, Radical Reform, and Planetary Sociology: Between Impossibility and Inevitability
Harry F. Dahms
Part 2. Inequality
9 Beyond Piketty’s Economism: History, Culture, and the Critique of Inequality
Daniel Krier and Kevin S. Amidon
10 Accounting for Inequality: Questioning Piketty on National Income Accounts and the Capital-Labor Split
Charles Reitz
11 The Political Dimensions of Economic Division: Republicanism, Social Justice, and the Evaluation of Economic Inequality
Michael J. Thompson
Part 3. Global Inequality
12 Piketty on the World Market and Inequality within Nations
Tony Smith
13 Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century: Global Inequality, Piketty, and the Transnational Capitalist Class
William I. Robinson
14 The Piketty Challenge: Global Inequality and World Revolutions
Christopher Chase-Dunn and Sandor Nagy
15 Global Inequality, Competition, Uncertainty, and the Legitimation Crisis of Neoliberalism
Alessandro Bonanno
16 The Piketty Thesis and the Environmental Wall: Rentier Society, Post-Carbon Democracy, or Apocalyptic Ruin?
Robert J. Antonio
17 The Adventures of Professor Piketty: In Which We Meet the Intrepid Data-Hunter Thomas Piketty and Hear His Startling Story
David Norman Smith with art by Tom Johnson
18 21st Century Capital: Falling Profit Rates and System Entropy Postscript to “The Adventures of Professor Piketty”
David Norman Smith
19 From Inequality to Social Justice
Peter Marcuse
Conclusion: Capitalism, Contradiction, and Crisis
Lauren Langman and David A. Smith
Index
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Lauren Langman is a Professor of Sociology at the Loyola University of Chicago. He has long worked in the tradition of the Frankfurt School with special concern with the impact of political economy in shaping character, identity and desire, national character, hegemony and social movements, especially global justice movements. He is past president of RC 36, Alienation Research of the International Sociological Association (ISA), chair of the Marxist section of the American Sociological Assocation (ASA) and recipient of its lifetime achievement award.
David A. Smith is a Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Irvine. His research focuses on global commodity chains, world cities and the political economy of the world-system. He is Editor of the International Journal of Comparative Sociology.