Social science perspectives on climate change and development

University of Copenhagen

Xaquín S. Pérez-Sindín López

Tag: capitalism

  • Capitalism as a “Mental Technology”: From Bastos to Hartmut Rosa and the social capital theories

    One of the most intensive defenses of capitalism I have recently heard comes from Miguel Anxo Bastos. In several conferences and interviews, he presents capitalism not merely as an economic system, but as a kind of “mental technology”: a way of seeing the world rationally, systematically, and productively. In his account, capitalism emerges from habits…

  • Capitalism is a Technology – Miguel Anxo Bastos

    What was humanity like before we young people came to know it? How does one escape poverty? What was there before, 200 years ago? Poverty is always something relative. So, I don’t know whether people in other times felt poor as such, but rather understood that this was existence itself. That was how it had…

  • Daniel Bell and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

    Capitalism is often understood as an economic system based on markets, private property, competition, productivity, and growth. However, for the sociologist Daniel Bell, capitalism was not only an economic structure. It was also a cultural system, and this cultural dimension created one of its deepest contradictions. In his influential book The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism,…

  • Great video overview of Weber and the Protestant Work Ethic (and difference between Northern and Southern Europe.

  • “Assembling for Development…” and “Globalization: capitalism and its alternatives”, by Leslie Sklair

    First published in 1989, this book focuses upon the phenomenon of export-led industrialisation fuelled by foreign investment and technology. He concentrates on Mexico, where US companies have been taking advantage of inexpensive labour to establish “maquila” factories that assemble US parts for export. Through this detailed study of the maquila industry, Sklair charts the progress…

  • Mapping the global battle to protect our planet

    A new project maps environmental protest across the world, powerfully visualising a growing movement These struggles have sometimes toppled governments, such as the coup in Madagascar in 2008 that brought “land-grabbing” to global attention when Daewoo was given a lease to grow food and biofuels for export on half the country’s land. But most of…

  • An Introduction To Capitalism

  • The dark side of Silicon Valley

    California’s booming tech industry has created the most extreme wealth disparity in America. Josie Ensor investigates the tale of two cities By Josie Ensor, San Jose, California 6:00AM GMT 26 Nov 2014 Jimmy hands $2 worth of dimes to the conductor and finds a seat at the back of the bus. He settles himself in…