Managerial Capitalism, livre ebook

The debate around growing inequality is raging amongst economists, and Marxists are finding new ways to map-out the modern economy. Managerial Capitalism introduces a new way of understanding the changing structure of our economy through the emergence and behaviour of a new class – managers.
In the post war years as social democracy reigned, managers tended to form compromises with workers. However, under neoliberalism, allegiances have shifted. Today, a new alliance is forming between managers and capitalist owners, changing the nature of the hierarchy of power under capitalism. Additionally, the authors argue, this is happening much faster and universally than was previously thought.
By applying Marx's basic concepts to the reality of the system today, through the use of extensive data sets as well as firmly rooting the argument in its historical context, Managerial Capitalism updates Marxism for the twenty-first century, through showing how the modes of production today are shaped by a new class, that must be understood if it is to be challenged.

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Introduction

1. An overview

PART I: MODES OF PRODUCTION AND CLASSES

2. Patterns of income distribution

3. Marx’s theory of history

4. Managers in Marx’s analysis

5. Sociality and class societies

6. Managerialism and managerial capitalism

7. A wealth of alternative interpretations

8. Hybridization as analytical challenge

PART II: TWELVE DECADES OF MANAGERIAL CAPITALISM

9. Varying trends of inequality

10. The sequence of social orders

11. Class and imperial power structures

12. The politics of social change

13. Tendencies, crises, and struggles

PART III: PAST ATTEMPTS AT THE INFLECTION OF HISTORICAL DYNAMICS

14. Utopian capitalism in bourgeois revolutions

15. Utopian socialism and anarchism

16. Self-proclaimed scientific socialism

PART IV: PROSPECTS FOR HUMAN EMANCIPATION WITHIN AND BEYOND MANAGERIALISMS

17. The economics and politics of managerialisms

18. The potential of popular struggle

Notes

Index