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Global problems and the culture of capitalism /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Robbins, Richard H. (Richard Howard), 1940-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Allyn & Bacon, [2008]
Edition:4th ed.
Subjects:
Economic history > 1990-
Social problems.
Capitalism.
Consumption (Economics)
Poverty.
Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the consumer, the laborer, the capitalist, and the nation-state in the society of perpetual growth
  • Constructing the consumer
  • Remaking consumption
  • Marketing and advertising
  • The transformation of institutions
  • The transformation of spiritual and intellectual values
  • The reconfiguration of time, space, and class
  • Kinderculture in America: the child as consumer
  • The role of children in capitalism
  • The social construction of childhood
  • Exporting the consumer
  • The laborer in the culture of capitalism
  • A primer on the economic elements of capitalism
  • The baptism of money
  • The construction and anatomy of the working class
  • Characteristics of the working class
  • The growth of overseas assembly plants
  • The creation of free labor
  • The segmentation of the workforce
  • Control and discipline
  • Resistance and rebellion
  • The rise of the merchant, industrialist, and capital controller
  • The era of the global trader
  • A trader's tour of the world in 1400
  • The economic rise of Europe and its impact on Africa and the Americas
  • The rise of the trading companies
  • The era of the industrialist
  • Textiles and the rise of the factory system
  • The age of imperialism
  • The era of the corporation, the multilateral institution, and the capital controller
  • The rise of the corporation
  • Bretton Woods and the world debt
  • The power of capital controllers
  • The nation-state in the culture of capitalism
  • The origin and history of the state
  • The evolution of the state
  • The history and function of the nation-state
  • Constructing the nation-state
  • Creating the other
  • Language, bureaucracy, and education
  • Violence and genocide
  • Spin, free trade, and the role of energy in the global economy
  • Manufacturing consent: spin
  • Markets and free trade
  • Energy and technology
  • The global impact of the culture of capitalism: introduction
  • The problem of population growth
  • The malthusians versus the revisionists
  • The case of India and China
  • The issue of carrying capacity
  • The ideology of malthusian concerns
  • Demographic transition theory
  • A primer on the determinants of population growth and decline
  • Some examples of demographic change
  • Population growth in the periphery
  • Wealth flows theory
  • The social implications of wealth flows theory
  • The question of gender and power
  • Problems and prospects
  • Hunger, poverty, and economic development
  • The evolution of food production: from the neolithic to the neocaloric
  • From gathering and hunting to the neolithic
  • Capitalism and agriculture
  • The neocaloric and the green revolution
  • The politics of hunger
  • The anatomy of famine
  • The anatomy of endemic hunger
  • Solutions and adaptations to poverty and hunger
  • Economic development
  • The nature and growth of the informal economy
  • The nature and scope of the informal economy of drugs
  • Environment and consumption
  • The case of sugar
  • Sugar origins and production
  • Uses of sugar
  • The development of the sugar complex
  • The expansion of sugar consumption
  • The mass consumption of sugar
  • Modern sugar
  • The story of beef
  • The ascendancy of beef
  • The emergence of the American beef industry
  • Modern beef
  • The internationalization of the hamburger
  • Environmentally sustainable cattle raising
  • Exporting pollution
  • Health and disease
  • A primer on how to die of an infectious disease
  • The relationships between culture and disease
  • Gathering and hunting to early agriculture
  • "Graveyards of mankind"
  • Diseases of environmental change
  • Aids and the culture of capitalism
  • How did the disease spread?
  • Who gets infected with AIDS?
  • Who gets blamed?
  • Indigenous groups and ethnic conflict
  • The fate of indigenous peoples
  • Some characteristics of indigenous peoples
  • The process of ethnocide
  • The Guaraní: the economics of ethnocide
  • History and background
  • Contemporary development and Guaraní communities
  • Disadvantaged majorities and their revenge
  • Leveling crowds
  • Genocide as an externality of the market
  • Resistance and rebellion: introduction
  • Peasant protest, rebellion, and resistance
  • Malaysia and the weapons of the weak
  • Malaysian peasants and the green revolution
  • Fighting back
  • Obstacles to resistance
  • Protest and change
  • Kikuyu and the Mau Mau rebellion
  • The British in East Africa
  • The White Highlands
  • The roots of the rebellion
  • The rebellion
  • "State of emergency"
  • The oath and the detention camps
  • Independence
  • The rebellion in Chiapas
  • Poverty and inequality in Chiapas
  • The rebellion and the global economy
  • The revolt and the reaction of the Mexican government
  • The future of peasants
  • Antisystemic protest
  • Protest as antisystemic: the two world revolutions
  • The revolution of 1848
  • The revolution of 1968
  • The protests of labor: coal miners in nineteenth-century Pennsylvania
  • The coal industry and the worker's life
  • Worker resistance and protest
  • Destroying worker resistance
  • Global feminist resistance
  • Gender relations in the culture of capitalism
  • Strategies of protest
  • Ecological resistance movements
  • Earth first!
  • Chipko and the tragedy of the commons
  • Religion and antisystemic protest
  • Indigenous religious movements as protest
  • The ghost dance
  • The cargo cults
  • Zionism in South Africa
  • The global challenge of antisystemic religious protest
  • Islamic fundamentalism
  • Protestant fundamentalism in North America
  • "Terror in the mind of God"
  • Some examples of religious violence
  • Understanding religious violence
  • Constructing the citizen-activist
  • What are the real dangers?
  • The GNP and the construction of the doctrine of perpetual growth
  • The depletion of natural capital
  • The depletion of political capital
  • The depletion of social capital
  • Capital and public policy
  • Activities of citizen-activist
  • Indices and goals for well-being
  • The means and prospects for change: attaining zero economic growth
  • Rebuilding and maintaining natural capital
  • Restoring political capital
  • Rebuilding social capital.