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ENTROPY OF CAPITALISM

By: Language: English Series: Studies in critical social sciences, v. 39Publication details: Delhi Aakar 2016/01/01Edition: 1Description: 391ISBN:
  • 9789350024409
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.122 BIE
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Summary:
The project of applying general systems theory to social sciences is crucial in today's crisis when social and ecological systems clash. This book concretely demonstrates the necessity of a Marxist approach to this challenge, notably in asserting agency (struggle) as against determinism. It similarly shows how Marxism can be reinvigorated from a systems perspective. Drawing on his experience in both international systems and low-input agriculture, Biel explores the interaction of social and physical systems, using the conceptual tools of thermodynamics and information. He reveals the early twenty-first century as a period when capitalism starts parasitising on the chaos it itself creates, notably in the link between the two sides of imperialism: militarism (the 'war on terror') and speculative finance capital.

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