{"product_id":"emergency-capitalism-financial-hubris-economic-collapse-and-systemic-manipulation-paperback","title":"Emergency Capitalism: Financial Hubris, Economic Collapse and Systemic Manipulation - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFabio Vighi\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFabio Vighi's \"Emergency Capitalism\" begins with this observation: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe age of crisis capitalism is characterized by two major socioeconomic trends: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1) the addiction to credit creation, whose main purpose is to inflate and prop up the financial markets; 2) the controlled demolition of the real economy and the modern model of society organized around wage labor. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom there, Vighi shows that the last half-decade of capitalist politics has been shaped by efforts to prolong the emergency paradigm. Through the controlled demolition of the \"work society,\" capital is now phasing out a liberal era based on mass wage labor and free enterprise while replacing it with a centralized control system of \"crisis management.\" Big Finance, the Deep State, and the Military-Industrial Complex are staged to fill the gap that the disappearance of productive labor has left behind. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Pandemic, electronic currencies, the decimation of Gaza, Inflation and Putin are all manifestations of a new and truly political economy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVighi goes beyond conspiracy theories to demonstrate that it is capital's blind logic of self-reproduction--now driven by debt and financialization--that conditions the misanthropic, manipulative behavior of its functional elites.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 23, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51755383980320,"sku":"9798990159167","price":29.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/4eac24ea50feffa7634bd458aa0c2365.webp?v=1780057498","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/emergency-capitalism-financial-hubris-economic-collapse-and-systemic-manipulation-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}