Beyond Capitalism

Part I: The global crisis caused by deflation.- Chapter 1: Transformation of global capitalism, deflation with unemployment and rhetoric around intergenerational conflict.- Chapter 2: Public spending and social reproduction: overturning the rhetoric.- Chapter 3: Transformation of public intervention in the crisis in USA and Japan.- Chapter 4: The European exception to the generational narrative.- Chapter 5: Deficit and debt.- Chapter 6: Low growth, demographics, labour: problems to be solved.- Chapter 7: European growth is possible only if the public debt paradigm changes.- Chapter 8: Europe is the epicentre of deflation and power imbalance.- Chapter 9: France and Germany.- Chapter 10: Neocolonialism and neoimperialism.- Chapter 11: New areas of state: between Leviathan and Behemoth.- Part II: Financialised, high-tech capitalism based on modern slavery.- Chapter 12: The advent of owner capitalism: ordoliberalism and new technologies.- Chapter 13: A new Kondratieff cycle.- Chapter 14: Atechnology for long-term stagnation?.- Chapter 15: Mechanics, commodities, labour.- Chapter 16: Soul of the capitalist machinery.- Chapter 17: Why should we research workers and employees today?.- Chapter 18: Disappearance of trade unions: deinstitutionalised capitalism?.- Part III: Is a non-capitalist economy possible?.- Chapter 19: Histories, wars, markets.- Chapter 20: The problem is ownership and its variable forms.- Chapter 21: Faith?.- Part IV: Freedom and diversity: the anticapitalist revolution.- Chapter 23: More on allocation of ownership.- Chapter 24: Common goods.- Part V: Against rhetoric, back to theory and struggle.- Chapter 25: Living worlds...communities?.- Chapter 26: People: our strength.- Part VI: Blowing into the bottle.- Chapter 27: Adriano Olivetti and the language of hope.

 

Giulio Sapelli is Professor of Economic History at the University of Milan, Italy. He has more than 400 publications to his name.