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Managerial Capitalism: Ownership, Management and the Coming New Mode of Production
By Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy
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About the book:
In this provocative update of the Marxian framework, Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy reassert the explanatory power of Marx’s theories of history and political economy while incorporating contemporary transformations of class patterns and relations of production. They show that a transition is now underway towards a new mode of production, managerialism, shaped by the class of managers who are gradually moving from an intermediate class position to that of a new ruling class. The transition towards managerialism is much more advanced than usually understood.
The authors provide an overview and interpretation of major economic and political trends in the current hybrid social formation of managerial capitalism, with a special emphasis on its current neoliberal features in the U.S. and Europe, and its financial imperial reach worldwide.
Their historical analysis harks back to earlier struggles for social progress: the bourgeois revolutions, utopian socialism and anarchism, the early communist undertakings, the construction of self-proclaimed socialism and its failure. They conclude with a reassessment of the prospects for human emancipation today.
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Gerard Duménil is an economist and former Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. He is a member of the editorial board of Actuel Marx. He is the co-author with Dominique Levy of The Crisis of Neoliberalism (HUP, 2014).
Dominique Lévy is an economist and former Research Director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. He is a member of the editorial board of Actuel Marx and the co-author with Gerard Duménil of The Crisis of Neoliberalism (HUP, 2014).
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PAPERBACK: MARCH 2018 / 272 PAGES / ISBN 9780745337531 / £17.99
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