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"This volume features 19 original essays on Adam Smith's conception of modernity. The contributions demonstrate the relevance of Smith as the great interpreter of modernity 250 years after the publication of The Wealth of Nations. The chapters in Part 1 focus on structural aspects of Smith's work. They cover topics such as Smith as theorist of spontaneous order, the systematic dimension of Smith's theoretical construction, and Smith's role as a historian of economic thought. Part 2 addresses Smith's conception of modern subjectivity between Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres, Theory of Moral Sentiments and Wealth of Nations. Here the contributors consider the figure of the Smithian "merchant" and the importance of ridicule and satire for understanding modern civility, and comment on the role of sympathy, imagination and moral judgement in developing a sense of self, the condition of the modern man in society, and the virtue of self-command. Part 3 focuses on the crucial question of the relationship between ethics and economics discussing the link between efficiency, equity and justice, the nature of Smith's theory of value, and the ethical connotation of Smith's critique. Part 4 deals with topics inherent to the functional dynamics and development process of the Smithian "commercial society". These topics include law and authority, the relationship between work and freedom, the parable of the "poor man's son", and the economic and political consequences of the new secular orthodoxy. Finally, the chapters in Part 5 explore themes related to history and the Smithian idea of progress. They focus on the link between trade and progress of civilization, Smith's modern sociological vision of mass commercial societies, Smith's judgment on "savage" and premodern societies, and the controversial question of the immanentistic or providentialist perspective from which Smith considers both the social dynamics and the historical process. Adam Smith and Modernity will appeal to scholars and advanced students on 18th-century philosophy, the history of economic thought, and the history of social and political philosophy"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction
• Left behind vs. Backlash: Economic and Cultural Theories of Democratic Discontent
• Affective Political Economy: The economic origins of democratic discontent
• Affective political economy and political discontent: an experimental analysis
• Frozen Parties, Failing Markets: Discontent in the United States and United Kingdom
• Austerity, Regionalism, and Dueling Populisms in Spain
• Corruption, Populism, and Contentious Politics in Brazil and Chile
• The Dogs That Did Not Bark: How Canada, Portugal, and Uruguay Avoided Discontent
• Populism in Power: Polarization, Charismatic Attachment, and Conspiracy Theories in Trump's America
• Conclusions: Is Neoliberal Democracy Sustainable?.

"Economic crises since 2008 led to the rise of populist, extremist, Far Right, and conspiracy-focused movements. Emotions borne of economic crises produces cultural discontent (i.e. enflames conflicts over values and identities), an approach we call Affective Political Economy. The book studies these dynamics in Europe and the Americas"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• Left behind vs. Backlash: Economic and Cultural Theories of Democratic Discontent
• Affective Political Economy: The economic origins of democratic discontent
• Affective political economy and political discontent: an experimental analysis
• Frozen Parties, Failing Markets: Discontent in the United States and United Kingdom
• Austerity, Regionalism, and Dueling Populisms in Spain
• Corruption, Populism, and Contentious Politics in Brazil and Chile
• The Dogs That Did Not Bark: How Canada, Portugal, and Uruguay Avoided Discontent
• Populism in Power: Polarization, Charismatic Attachment, and Conspiracy Theories in Trump's America
• Conclusions: Is Neoliberal Democracy Sustainable?

"Economic crises since 2008 led to the rise of populist, extremist, Far Right, and conspiracy-focused movements. Emotions borne of economic crises produces cultural discontent (i.e. enflames conflicts over values and identities), an approach we call Affective Political Economy. The book studies these dynamics in Europe and the Americas"-- Provided by publisher

• Introduction 1. Is Biopower Something to Be Afraid Of?: Biopolitics as a Research Category in Historiography
• Section I: Issues of Reproduction 2. Regenerating the Nation: Eugenics and Racial Hygiene in Early Twentieth-Century Austria 3. 'Each Jewish Child Is Precious': Survivor Community in Poland and Its Biopolitical Discourses 4. 'Marital Intercourse Means Togetherness and Parenthood': The Biopolitics of Catholic Marriage Preparation in Poland during the 1970s 5. Whose Children?: Pronatalist Incentives and Social Categorization in Socialist Romania 6. State and Parenthood: Family Planning Policy in Socialist Yugoslavia (1945-1991) 7. Blind Faith or Divine Providence? Global Catholicism and the Population Bomb
• Section II: Beyond Procreation: Health, Nutrition and Hygiene 8. Feeding Hungry Bodies: Children's Nutrition as Biopolitics after the Great War 9. Disinfection Trains: Fighting Lice on Polish Railways, 1918-1920 10. The Intricacies of Communist Biopolitics: Control of Disease and Epidemics in the Polish Countryside after 1945 11. State Socialist Biopolitics: Four Stages of Human Development in Post-War Czechoslovakia 12. Imperial Biopolitics: Famine in Russia and the Soviet Union, 1891-1947 13. Fearing the Nation, Fearing for the Nation and Fearing Other Nations: Compulsory Vaccination in Twentieth-Century Germany.
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The field of biopolitics encompasses issues from health and hygiene, birth rates, fertility and sexuality, life expectancy and demography to eugenics and racial regimes. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive view on these issues for Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth century. The cataclysms of imperial collapse, World War(s) and the Holocaust but also the rise of state socialism after 1945 provided extraordinary and distinct conditions for the governing of life and death. The volume collects the latest research and empirical studies from the region to showcase the diversity of biopolitical regimes in their regional and global context - from hunger relief for Hungarian children after the First World War to abortion legislation in communist Poland. It underlines the similarities as well, demonstrating how biopolitical strategies in this area often revolved around the notion of an endangered nation; and how ideological schemes and post-imperial experiences in Eastern Europe further complicate a 'western' understanding of democratic participatory and authoritarian repressive biopolitics. The new geographical focus invites scholars and students of social and human sciences to reconsider established perspectives on the history of population management and the history of Europe.
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"The entrepreneurial path, whether for those who lead the journey or those who participate therein, is typically rocky at best, and the ones who make it through successful usually think about failure and challenge different from the rest of us. Drawing on two decades of research into what makes entrepreneurs entrepreneurs, and how they differ from the rest of us, Break the Rules! builds a compelling argument that successful entrepreneurs exhibit one or more of six counter-conventional mindsets that allow them to deal with, skate around, or overcome the daunting obstacles that stand in their way and take advantage of opportunities that present themselves along the entrepreneurial path. Surprisingly, however, these mindsets run counter to the conventional wisdom that's typically found in large and well-established companies. They fly in the face of what's taught in business schools about strategy, core competencies, target marketing, financing and more. The good news is this: each of the six break-the-rules mindsets can be learned, practiced, and ultimately built upon to assemble high-performing entrepreneurial teams and create thriving businesses that grow and prosper"-- Provided by publisher

"Taking seriously Jacques Lacan's claim that "the unconscious is politics", this volume proposes a new understanding of political power, as it interrogates the assumption that contemporary capitalism functions by tapping into people's forms of unconscious enjoyment, rather than providing transcendental conditions for the articulation of political meanings and desires. Whether we're aware of it or not, political communication today targets the audience's libidinal response through political and institutional language: in policies, speeches, tweets, social media appearances, gestures and images. Yet does this mean that current political powers no longer need symbolic or ideological frameworks? The authors in this volume think not. Far from demonstrating a shift to a post-ideological age, they argue instead that such methods inaugurate an altogether novel approach to political power. Written by leading scholars from around the world, including Roberto Esposito, Alenka Zupancic, Ed Pluth and Maurizio Lazzarato, each chapter reflects on contemporary power structures and inspires consideration of new political potentialities, which our focus on politics in transcendental rather than immanent terms has thus far obscured. In so doing, Capitalism and the New Political Unconscious provides an original and forceful exploration of the centrality of both psychoanalysis and the philosophy of immanence to an alternative and up-to-date understanding of the political."-- Provided by publisher

• Chapter 1. "Use not perfumery to flavor soup" : the science of the senses in aesthetic capitalism / Ai Hisano
• Chapter 2. Chasing flavor : sensory science and the economy / Ingemar Pettersson
• Chapter 3. Richer sounds : capitalism, musical instruments, and the Cold War sonic divide / Sven Kube
• Chapter 4. Altered states and gustatory taste : the sensory synergies of whiskey marketing in the mid-twentieth-century United States / Lisa Jacobson
• Chapter 5. The psychophysics of taste and smell : from experimental science to commercial tool / Ana María Ulloa
• Chapter 6. Sky's the limit : capitalism, the senses, and the failure of commercial supersonic aviation in the United States / David Suisman
• Chapter 7. Sounding maritime metal : on weathering steel and listening to capitalism at sea / Nicholas Anderman
• Chapter 8. Making human trash tasty : a history of sweet cattle feed in the Progressive Era / Nicole Welk-Joerger
• Chapter 9. Getting a handle on it : Thomas Lamb, mass production, and touch in design history / Grace Lees-Maffei
• Chapter 10. Fragrance and fair women : perfumers and consumers in modern London / Jessica P. Clark
• Chapter 11. Sold on softness : DuPont synthetics and sensory experience / Regina Lee Blaszczyk
• Chapter 12. Feminine touches : the sensory world of Lady Hilton / Megan J. Elias

"Capitalism and the Senses is the first edited volume to explore how the forces of capitalism are entangled with everyday sensory experience. This pioneering collection shows how seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, and touching have both shaped and been shaped by commercial interests from the turn of the twentieth century to our own time. From the manipulation of taste and texture in the food industry to the careful engineering of the feel of artificial fabrics in the clothing business, capitalist enterprises have worked to commodify the senses in a wide variety of ways. Sometimes they have succeeded, other times the senses have resisted control and defied the logic of markets. Drawing on history, anthropology, geography, and other fields, these essays comprise an innovative ensemble that demonstrates how the drive to exploit sensorial experience for profit became a defining feature of capitalist modernity and establishes the senses as an important dimension of the history of capitalism"-- Provided by publisher

Contemporary capitalism is always evolving. From digital technologies to cryptocurrencies, current trends in political economy are much discussed, but often little understood. So where can we turn for clarity? As Michael Roberts and Guglielmo Carchedi argue, new trends don't necessarily call for new theory. In Capitalism in the 21st Century, the authors show how Marx's law of value explains numerous issues in our modern world. In both advanced economies and the periphery, value theory provides a piercing analytical framework through which we can approach topics as varied as labour, profitability, automation and AI, the environment, nature and ecology, the role of China, imperialism and the state. This is an ambitious work that will appeal to both heterodox economists and labour movement activists alike, as it demonstrates the ongoing contemporary relevance of Marxist theory to current trends in political economy. -- Provided by publisher.

• The World Economy and Capitalism Adrift: Adam Smith versus John Maynard Keynes
• Gigantism?
• Growth Hormones That Promote Gigantism
• The Champions League Effect
• Gigantism Disrupts Society
• From Growth Obsession to Sustainable Growth
• Smaller, Slower, and More Human
• Ten Steps toward Post-Gigantism.

"Our world is suffering from economic gigantism. Under the current capitalist system huge companies and organizations are becoming even larger and more powerful, creating a Champions League effect that kills healthy competition, doesn't consider sustainable growth, and leaves workers feeling pressured and susceptible to burnout. Capitalism XXL makes it clear that current rules of capitalism favour bigness in an unfair way, and that a general unease with the capitalist system is growing. The trend for bigness goes beyond businesses: schools, hospitals, libraries, and all kinds of organizations, misled by economies of scale, have consolidated. A larger entity can seem attractive for its short-term financial gains, but the results produce enormous social costs. Rather than dismantling the capitalist system in favour of neo-Marxism, Geert Noels argues, we have to instead go back to the roots of capitalism and embrace its traditional principles as written by Adam Smith in the eighteenth century. Capitalism XXL makes the case for changing the rules in order to tame the giants and restore the individual to the world economy. Guided by history, Noels proposes an approach to capitalism that considers all human dimensions--social, ecological, and economic--and describes a sustainable future economy that will not burden the generations to come with debt, social inequality, and a natural environment that is damaged beyond repair."-- Provided by publisher.

"This book is a collective biography of the only generation of economists who lived their entire professional life in GDR's socialism. Born in the early 1930s, formed during the Thaw, having careers behind the wall, and retiring with their state in 1990, they were GDR's hope generation"-- Provided by publisher.

• Marx's Introduction
• The Circulation of Money
• Alien Capital Meets Alien Labor
• The Production of Capital
• Production and Realization
• Capital's Becoming: Past, Present and Future
• The Space and Time of Turnover and the Realization of Capital
• Turnover Times and the Circulation of Labor Capacity
• The Power of Fixed Capital
• Fixed and Circulating Capital
• The Falling Rate of Profit and Other Matters
• Class and Political Economy
• Concluding Thoughts

"Illustrates the relevance of Marx's Grundrisse to understanding the troubled state of contemporary capitalism"-- Provided by publisher

• Foreword / Reinhard Cardinal Marx
• The concept of economy in Judaism / Moses L. Pava
• The concept of 'economy' in Christianity / Andre Habisch
• The concept of economy in Islam / Rodney Wilson

"The present volume of Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses offers a fascinating insight into the history, the main ideas and current developments in economic thought from the perspective of the three major monotheistic faiths Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The reader encounters topics such as price control in rabbinic Judaism, Christian monks elaborating the foundations of modern accounting, and the latest innovations in Islamic banking. Each article has been written by a renowned expert on the subject and offers a historical overview over the development of the concept, the theological and philosophical principles in the Holy Scriptures of each faith, an outline of the practical application of the concept in the present, its significance for the future, and many more." -- Page 4 of cover