Financial Speculation and Fictitious Profits A Marxist Analysis /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Mello, Gustavo Moura de Cavalcanti (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Sabadini, Mauricio de Souza (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms,
• Subjects: Economic policy.; Economics.; Political theory.; Political sociology.; Political Economy/Economic Systems.; Political Theory.; Political Sociology.

This book provides an original account of financialisation and outlines the creation of fictitious profits as a basis to describe the present phase of capitalist accumulation in the neoliberal era. Making innovative theoretical elaborations on Marx's notion of fictitious capital, Financial Spec...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. the Place of Money in Marx's Theory of Capital
• 3. Speculative Capital and the Dematerialisation of Money
• 4. Crypto-Currencies: From the Fetishism of Gold to Hayek Gold
• 5. Financialisation and the Contradictory Unity Between the Real and Financial Dimensions of Capital Accumulation
• 6. Parasitic Speculative Capital: A Theoretical Precision on Financial Capital, Characteristic of Globalization
• 7. Profit, Interest, Rentism and Fictitious Profit
• 8. the Nature and the Contradictions of the Capitalist Crisis.