Apocalypse Capitalism, livre ebook

Available open access digitally under CC-BY licence.

Is it easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism?

Drawing on extensive archival research in the UK and the US, this book uncovers how Cold War planners planned to keep capitalism alive even after a nuclear apocalypse.

Through scenario planning, US officials anticipated capitalist recovery, while UK strategies prioritised preserving elite power and restoring the class system.

By tracing these contrasting imaginaries, the book reveals how capitalism is projected beyond the apocalypse and explores alternative economic futures that emerge when the unthinkable is taken seriously.

This publication was supported by the University of Essex's open access fund .

1. The Economics of Apocalypse: Imagining Capitalism After the End of the World

2. Contracting Out the Unthinkable in the Late Cold War

3. United Kingdom Plans for Reconstructing Capitalism After a Nuclear War: Proto-Capitalism, Immiseration and Ruling Class Survival

4. United States Plans for Reconstructing Capitalism After a Nuclear War: Preserving Property Rights and Markets

5. Apocalypse Capitalism in Practice: The Spatio-Temporal Legal Fix

6. Apocalypse Communism: Spatio-Temporal-Revolutionary Fissures