Vampire Capitalism : Fractured Societies and Alternative Futures

• Main Author: Kennedy, Paul (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: kapitalismus; hospodářské systémy; sociální struktura; sociální nerovnost; capitalism; economic systems; social structure; social inequality; elektronické knihy; monografie; electronic books; monographs
• ISBN: 9781137552662
• DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-55266-2
• Physical Description: XIII, 355 p. online resource.

This book argues that in recent decades an unrestrained vampire-capitalism has emerged, disengaged from the needs of citizens and workers, leading to a deepening of social class, generational, gender, educational and ethnic divisions. The author explores how our cultural obsession with self-realizat...