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Wealth and Poverty in Contemporary Brazilian Capitalism

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This book analyses contemporary capitalism from Brazil and from the Marxian critique of political economy, particularly; the co-dependency of wealth and poverty and of civilization and barbarism; the current tendency towards capital over-accumulation and the specific form assumed by the capitalist crisis in recent decades; the financialisation process of capital accumulation, its effects on the world of labour; and the place that the state assumes in this broad process. Current trends toward increasing social inequality, impoverishment of large sections of the population, precariousness of labour and rising unemployment, environmental destruction, the spread of austerity policies and the suppression of social policies, the rise of the far right (together with the strengthening of racism, misogyny, xenophobia, political and religious fanaticism and all manner of intolerance, etc.), low economic growth, the primacy of the financial dimension of capital accumulation, all need to be understood in their multiple and complex articulations, as fundamental and inherent elements of contemporary capitalism, associating empirical analysis with conceptual construction. Because they are strictly contradictory processes, a dialectical approach is required that reclaims the Marxian legacy, and aims to contribute to updating it, seeking to bring new and relevant elements to the Marxist debate, based on a specific interpretation of Marx's work, and as an immediate empirical basis the Brazilian reality.

List of contents

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. In the bowels of capital: on modern barbarism.- Chapter 3. Rethinking wealth and poverty in capitalist society.- Chapter 4. Financialisation, work and gender: violence and barbarism in ultraliberal Brazil.- Chapter 5. Marx and the category of fictitious profits: some notes on the Brazilian economy.- Chapter 6. Dollar hegemony under challenge and the rise of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC): a new form of world money?.- Chapter 7. Brazil amid the structural crisis of capital.- Chapter 8. Final words. 

About the author










Gustavo Moura de Cavalcanti Mello is Professor in the Department of Economics and the Post-Graduate Program in Social Policy at the Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil. 

Henrique Pereira Braga is Professor in the Department of Economics at the Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil. 



Product details

Assisted by Henrique Pereira Braga (Editor), Gustavo Moura de Cavalcanti Mello (Editor), Gustavo Moura de Cavalcanti Mello (Editor), Pereira Braga (Editor)
Publisher Springer, Berlin
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 23.10.2022
 
EAN 9783030823009
ISBN 978-3-0-3082300-9
No. of pages 225
Dimensions 148 mm x 14 mm x 210 mm
Illustrations XXIX, 225 p. 13 illus., 6 illus. in color.
Series Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
Subject Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas

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