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100 1 _aRobbins, Richard H.
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245 1 0 _aGlobal problems and the culture of capitalism /
_cRichard H. Robbins.
250 _aFifth edition.
264 1 _aBoston :
_bPrentice Hall,
_c[2011]
264 4 _c©2011
300 _axvi, 383 pages :
_billustrations, maps ;
_c25 cm
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
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338 _avolume
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504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 353-364) and index.
505 0 _apt. 1. Introduction: the consumer, the laborer, the capitalist, and the nation-state in the society of perpetual growth. A primer on money: the philosopher's stone ; Step 1: the development of commodity money ; Step 2: the shift from commodity to fiat or credit money ; Step 3: the necessary conversion of nonmonetary into monetary capital -- ch. 1. Constructing the consumer. Remaking consumption ; Kinderculture in America: the child as consumer ; Exporting the consumer -- ch. 2. The laborer in the culture of capitalism. A primer on the elements of capitalism ; The construction and anatomy of the working class -- ch. 3. The rise and fall of the merchant, industrialist, and financier. The era of the global trader ; The era of the industrialist ; The era of the corporation, the multilateral institution, and the capital speculator ; The "second great contraction" -- ch. 4. The nation-state in the culture of capitalism. The origin and history of the state ; Constructing the nation-state ; Spin, tree trade, and the role of energy in the global economy --
505 0 _apt. 2. The global impact of the culture of capitalism: introduction. A primer on market externalities: Polanyi's paradox -- ch. 5. The problem of population growth. The Malthusians versus the revisionists ; Demographic transition theory ; Population growth in the periphery -- ch. 6. Hunger, poverty, and economic development. The evolution of food production: from the neolithic to the neocaloric ; The politics of hunger ; Solutions and adaptations to poverty and hunger -- ch. 7. Environment and consumption. The case of sugar ; The story of beef ; Economic growth, sustainability, and the environment -- ch. 8. Health and disease. A primer on how to die from an infectious disease ; The relationship between culture and disease ; AIDS and the culture of capitalism -- ch. 9. Indigenous groups and ethnic conflict. The fate of indigenous peoples ; The Guaraní: the economics of ethnocide ; Disadvantaged majorities and their revenge --
505 0 _apt. 3. Resistance and rebellion: introduction. A primer on terrorism -- ch. 10. Peasant protest, rebellion, and resistance. Malaysia and the weapons of the weak ; Kikuyu and the Mau Mau rebellion ; The rebellion in Chiapas -- ch. 11. Anti-systemic protest. Protest as anti-systemic: the two world revolutions ; The protests of labor: coal miners in nineteenth-century Pennsylvania ; Global feminist resistance ; Ecological resistance movements -- ch. 12. Religion and anti-systemic protest. Indigenous religious movements as anti-systemic protest ; The global challenge of anti-systemic religious protest ; "Terror in the mind of God" -- ch. 13. Constructing the citizen-activist. What are the real dangers? ; The GNP and the construction of the doctrine of perpetual growth ; The means and prospects for change ; Rebuilding and maintaining natural capital.
588 _aMachine converted from AACR2 source record.
650 0 _aEconomic history
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650 0 _aSocial problems.
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650 0 _aCapitalism.
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650 0 _aConsumption (Economics)
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650 0 _aPoverty.
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