Confronting Capitalism in the 21st Century: Lessons from Marx's Capital (Hardcover, 2020)

CONTENTS Acknowledgments List of Contributors List of Tables & Figures Introduction - Confronting Capitalism: Lessons from Marx's Capital Part I Beginning with Capital 2. Marx's 'Ultimate Aim' in Capital Was... Bertell Ollman 3. Marx and Commodity Fetishism - Some Remarks on Method Vesa Oittinen 4. Late Marx and the Conception of 'Accumulation of Capital' Paul Zarembka Part II Contending With Value : Money, Price, Temporality, and Space 5. Form Analysis, Space and Spatial Struggle Bernd Belina 6. The Transformation Problem and Value Form: Methodological Comments Pertti Honkanen 7. Value Forms and the Structure of the Capitalist System David Fishman Part III Financialization, Credit, and Crisis 8. Marx's Musings on Financial Crises: Credit and Crises in the Mid-19 th Century Gold Standard Laurence A. Krause 9. Marx on Financial Intermediation: Lessons from the French Credit Mobilier Joseph Ricciardi Part IV Crisis in the 21 st Century: Cross-National Evidence 10. The Ambiguous Role of China's Collective Land Ownership Under Global Capitalism Xiangjing Chen 11. Beyond the 'Pink Tide': Dependent Capitalism in Crisis in Argentina and Lessons to be Learned for Radical Social Change Mariano Feliz 12. The Final Fiction: Madoff Clawback Suits and Their Implications for Capitalism in the 21 st Century Colleen P. Eren 13. Navigating the Scylla and Charybdis of Precarious Work: Through the Storm of Contingency Christian Garland Part V The Past and Present with an Eye on the Future 14. What if Our Schools Are Working?: Base, Superstructure, and Hegemony in Education Alan Singer 15. Demographic Changes, Pension Reforms, and Absolute Surplus Value: Intertemporal Exploitation in Contemporary Capitalism? Marcelo Milan 16. Readings of Capital : A Starting Point for Reinventing Socialist Politics? Ingo Schmidt Postscript Index