How Capitalism Ends - by Steve Paxton (Paperback)

Name: How Capitalism Ends - by Steve Paxton (Paperback)
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While the past 300 years have witnessed immense growth in productive capacity, the 'logic' of capitalist production is now pushing progress in all the wrong directions.
About the Author: Steve Paxton, in addition to an academic career culminating in doctoral research with GA Cohen at Oxford, has worked on building sites and in betting shops, been a PHP programmer and a T-shirt designer, been employed, self-employed and unemployed, blue-collar, white-collar and no-collar.
248 Pages
History, Civilization

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Capital's drive for profit has pushed technological development to previously unimagined heights, and now capitalist production is pushing progress in all the wrong directions.

Book Synopsis

While the past 300 years have witnessed immense growth in productive capacity, the 'logic' of capitalist production is now pushing progress in all the wrong directions. We've passed the point where our biggest enemy is material scarcity. Our problems no longer revolve around insufficient production, but iniquitous distribution - and the fact that we're fast running out of planet - and these are problems that capitalism cannot solve. Taking in a diverse range of contemporary and historical evidence - from the Putney Debates of 1647 to Modern Monetary Theory, from John Locke to Thomas Piketty, from the Rights of Man to the rise of identity politics How Capitalism Ends navigates a path through current affairs, history, economics and philosophy and sets the scene for the conversation we, as a civilization, urgently need to begin...

About the Author

Steve Paxton, in addition to an academic career culminating in doctoral research with GA Cohen at Oxford, has worked on building sites and in betting shops, been a PHP programmer and a T-shirt designer, been employed, self-employed and unemployed, blue-collar, white-collar and no-collar. He combines the experience of this varied career with his academic background to bring unique insights to the printed page. He lives near Oxford, UK.

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Dimensions (Overall): 8.35 Inches (H) x 5.43 Inches (W) x .63 Inches (D)

Weight: .65 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 248

Genre: History

Sub-Genre: Civilization

Publisher: Zer0 Books

Format: Paperback

Author: Steve Paxton

Language: English

Street Date: November 25, 2022

TCIN: 1009236018

UPC: 9781803410005

Item Number (DPCI): 247-45-3966

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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