My thesis is that we are seeing the making not so much of predatory elites but of predatory “formations,” a mix of elites and systemic capacities with fi nance a key enabler, that push toward acute concentration....Rich individuals and global firms by themselves could not have achieved such extreme concentration of the world’s wealth. They need what we might think of as systemic help: a complex interaction of these actors with systems regeared toward enabling extreme concentration. Such systemic capacities are a variable mix of technical, market, and financial innovations plus government enablement. They constitute a partly global condition, though one that often functions through the specifics of countries, their political economies, their laws, and their governments.They include enormous... (查看原文)
The leading sector in market- based economies for much of the twentieth century, mass manufacturing created the economic conditions for the expansion of the middle class because (1) it facilitated worker organizing, with unionization the most familiar format; (2) it was based in good part on house hold consumption, and hence wage levels mattered in that they created an effective demand in economies that were for the most part fairly closed; and (3) the relatively high wage levels and social benefi ts typical of the leading manufacturing sectors became a model for broader sectors of the economy, even those not unionized nor in manufacturing. (查看原文)
3 有用 熊里的小木屋 2017-03-18 19:53:34
新自由主義是驅離式的，把更多的人排除出這個體系，滿足少量特權階級的需求。（總感覺作者似乎太過悲觀了...不過現有經濟體制確實存在很大的問題，社會分層階級固化很嚴重這是不容辯駁的事實。）
0 有用 blush 2018-05-09 02:54:17
說是要跳出現有各種不同理解框架的限制，找出潛藏的終極動力。但除了仔細指出引用的各種數據的有效範圍外，不見得所引伸的推論真的有多破格。利潤至上的價值觀，在日趨複雜離地的金融工具的幫助下，如何將跨越各種邊界地域限制，以前所未有的程度傷害各地的中產﹑基層，將他們剔出主流「經濟」及制度保障以外。其實不見得真的是甚麼新視角。而所引各種數據未見得真的有效鋪陳出所謂背後的大圖畫，反顯得有點囉唆。（中英文版混著看... 說是要跳出現有各種不同理解框架的限制，找出潛藏的終極動力。但除了仔細指出引用的各種數據的有效範圍外，不見得所引伸的推論真的有多破格。利潤至上的價值觀，在日趨複雜離地的金融工具的幫助下，如何將跨越各種邊界地域限制，以前所未有的程度傷害各地的中產﹑基層，將他們剔出主流「經濟」及制度保障以外。其實不見得真的是甚麼新視角。而所引各種數據未見得真的有效鋪陳出所謂背後的大圖畫，反顯得有點囉唆。（中英文版混著看） (展开)
2 有用 野葫芦引 2022-02-26 12:58:50
虽然Sassen也算挺出名的学者了…但写得真的好烂。比较印象深的就是她说到面对新自由主义大量的无家可归者、环境的剧烈破坏等等现实，以往的不平等、贫穷等进路已经无法很好地理解，Sassen建议使用“expulsion”来理解资本主义新阶段呈现出的simple brutality，expulsion作为subterranean & systemic trends 超越了南方北方、政治的/经济的/环境的... 虽然Sassen也算挺出名的学者了…但写得真的好烂。比较印象深的就是她说到面对新自由主义大量的无家可归者、环境的剧烈破坏等等现实，以往的不平等、贫穷等进路已经无法很好地理解，Sassen建议使用“expulsion”来理解资本主义新阶段呈现出的simple brutality，expulsion作为subterranean & systemic trends 超越了南方北方、政治的/经济的/环境的种种边界。（这样一个整体性的概念可以成立吗？）当如今的资本主义发展已经不再依赖于工人的生产及其消费作为增长的动力（因此工人的福利纳入到国家之中），工人被抛弃，甚至在金融的逻辑下成为债务的背负者、甚至无家可归者，expulsion的逻辑显示了巨大的残忍。 (展开)
0 有用 再不来了 2019-10-16 19:36:17
已放弃，繁体竖版，小号字体有点崩溃😂
0 有用 旗子crow 2017-09-20 17:29:12
很屌