Description
In Wealth and Power Duran Bell presents a key reconception of wealth as a globally-managed social resource. By observing the implications of wealth on a cross-cultural and multisocietal basis, Bell offers new insights into the implications of capital formation during a period of global accumulation. He analyzes the way in which leading centers of capitalist enterprise are transforming systems of state-managed capitalism into a global system of control. This evolving system results in severe inequalities in access to capital and, consequently, in the ability and power of individuals to survive. He provides a broader conception of the social processes that non-Western societies must undergo to participate in this phase of capitalist expansion, and explains the consequences of a hegemonic Western approach to social relations. This is essential reading for any scholar interested in the effects of wealth and power on global social processes.
Table of Contents
2 Acknowledgments
3 Chapter 1: A Time of Global Accumulation
4 Chapter 2: Wealth, power & corporate groups
5 Chapter 3: Capitalism and the right to survive
6 Chapter 4: Bridewealth & the Articulation of Wealth
7 Chapter 5: Households in Service to Wealth
8 Chapter 6: On the Nature of Rightful and Imposed Claims
9 Chapter 7: Marriage and Legitimacy
10 Chapter 8: Rights, Shared and Private
11 Chapter 9: Charity
12 Chapter 10: The Logic of Reciprocity
13 Chapter 11: Guanxi and the Law of the Village
14 Notes
15 References
16 Biography of Gyula Derkovits
17 Index
18 About the Author
Product details
| Published | 09 Dec 2003 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 224 |
| ISBN | 9780759115927 |
| Imprint | AltaMira Press |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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