Most comprehensive review and critical interrogation of Boltanski and Chiapello’s seminal title, The New Spirit of Captialism, in the English-speaking world
Wide range of novel theoretical and empirical insights into the nature and effects of contemporary forms of neo-liberal capitalism
Contributions from leading international scholars across Sociology, Management, Organization Studies, and Geography, working to a coherent agenda
After many years in which it appeared to be losing the pre-eminent position it had occupied in the lexicon of the social and human sciences, the term ’capitalism’ has once again become a matter of critical concern, both theoretically and substantively, in a range of disciplinary fields. The global financial and environmental crises, and the shifting of economic power associated with the rise of the BRICs and the sovereign debt contagion in the Eurozone, for example, have all put the norms, practices, and devices of capitalist conduct back under the spotlight.