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In: Revue française de sociologie. [English edition], Band 61, Heft 4, S. 704-707
ISSN: 2271-7641
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In: Revue française de sociologie. [English edition], Band 61, Heft 4, S. 704-707
ISSN: 2271-7641
In: Organization: the interdisciplinary journal of organization, theory and society, Band 29, Heft 3, S. 401-413
ISSN: 1461-7323
Debates have grown around the initial COVID-19 response of radical right-wing governments such as those of the UK, the US and Brazil. These governments initially let the virus spread among the population and delayed the enforcement of strong social distancing measures such as a lockdown. Focusing on the UK's early response to COVID-19, this article builds on Nicos Poulantzas' Marxist theory of the state to highlight how this pandemic management doctrine stemmed from changes in the UK's capitalist class. It traces the ideological grounding of this doctrine, relating it to the rise of libertarian think tanks in British conservative circles and shifts in the policy committees in charge of pandemic preparedness. It suggests that this pandemic response is an episode of the ongoing replacement of the dominant neoliberal accumulation regime with a new libertarian-authoritarian one and examines how this latter materialises the interests of an emerging group of 'disaster capitalists'. Therefore, it takes the COVID-19 crisis as an example of how the reconfiguration of capitalist accumulation regimes articulates a new doctrine of catastrophe management, radical right-wing ideologies, libertarian-authoritarian institutions and the growing power of capitalist actors able to profit from extreme events.
In: Historical social research: HSR-Retrospective (HSR-Retro) = Historische Sozialforschung, Band 45, Heft 3, S. 117-139
ISSN: 2366-6846
Elaborating on a three-month ethnography of an impact investing fund called Impact Equity, this article aims to understand the mechanisms at work in the emergence of the impact investing sector. After presenting the case of Impact Equity (section 1), the article details the norms and devices through which impact investing is constructed in everyday financial work (sections 2 and 3) and investigates how impact investors mobilise moral beliefs and strategic motivations to navigate competing definitions of "social impact" (section 4). In doing so, this article outlines how the construction of the sector has involved the creation of channels enabling capital and "social impact" to circulate between institutional investors, impact investment funds, and "impactful businesses," and it highlights the historical tensions that this process has involved.
In: Routledge studies in social and political thought
"This book explores the renewal of forms of capital accumulation and the institutions that shape it. It focuses on three main sources of accumulation: the extraction of profit through labor and the commodification of nature, financial speculation and the ways in which profit is converted into wealth. It thus offers a new understanding of the economic and political logics of capital accumulation within capitalism in the 21st century. It shows the recomposition of the sources of profit, from the traditional mechanisms of labor exploitation to the contemporary logics of speculation and dispossession. Bringing together the work of scholars who study the social fabric of capitalist accumulation, Accumulating Capital Today goes beyond disciplinary frontiers to describe how capital is accumulating in a world threatened by social and environmental collapse. This book heralds the emergence of "accumulation studies" and will be of interest to researchers in sociology, anthropology, politics, political economy, geography and economics"--
In: Socio-economic review, Band 22, Heft 4, S. 1755-1782
ISSN: 1475-147X
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The assetization of essential goods brings to high-income countries the logics of scarcity that have been dominant for long in low-to-middle income countries—fostering the rise of new forms of activism. Will this new activism strengthen already existing social movements or weaken them through more moderate politics? Building on interviews and the observation and mapping of activist events, we investigate this question through the case of pharmaceuticals. We detail how the assetization of pharmaceutical drugs has triggered the constitution of a new 'flank' in the access to medicines (A2M) movement—pharmaceutical transparency activism. We argue that transparency activism has expanded the contestation of the pharmaceutical state of affairs, by bringing into the broader A2M movement countries that were previously at the core of global pharmaceutical chains. Our article illuminates how the assetization of essential goods creates forms of activism that have significant impact on existing social movements.
In: Organization studies: an international multidisciplinary journal devoted to the study of organizations, organizing, and the organized in and between societies, Band 44, Heft 11, S. 1751-1773
ISSN: 1741-3044
The controversies surrounding the heavily redacted contracts between the European Commission and Covid-19 vaccine producers have highlighted 'transparency' as a hotly debated concept in the pharmaceutical market. We combine research on transparency with literature on the organization of markets to investigate how such struggles over competing visions of transparency end up shaping markets and their politics. Focusing on the case of the European pharmaceutical market, we demonstrate how market transparency was implemented through devices that enacted specific visions of transparency and produced distinct market organizations over time: transparency for states (until about 1990), transparency for corporations (ca. 1990 to 2010) and transparency for state coalitions (since 2010). We discuss how the specific instrumentations and materializations of such visions of transparency play a crucial role in market politics. This debate also highlights why engaging in controversies over transparency has become increasingly important for those contesting the market status quo – in pharmaceutical markets and beyond.
In: New political economy, Band 27, Heft 5, S. 837-850
ISSN: 1469-9923
In: Economy and society, Band 51, Heft 1, S. 23-45
ISSN: 1469-5766
In: New political economy, Band 26, Heft 1, S. 52-68
ISSN: 1469-9923
In: Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, Band 229, Heft 4, S. 46-71
ISSN: 1955-2564
Cet article montre comment les fonds d'investissement sont devenus, entre 1980 et aujourd'hui, un pôle central d'accumulation du capital. Il décrit la manière dont la reconfiguration des institutions du capitalisme français a permis l'accumulation du profit par ces nouveaux intermédiaires financiers. Pour ce faire, il remet en cause l'opposition entre acteurs publics et privés, et souligne les modalités de coopération entre ces acteurs dans la co-production du nouvel arrangement institutionnel favorable au capital-investissement. Cet article se base sur un matériau constitué par les archives, inexploitées jusqu'ici, de l'association professionnelle des fonds de capital-investissement de 1984 à aujourd'hui et par 12 entretiens réalisés avec d'anciens présidents de cette association.
In: Revue française de socio-économie: Rfse, Band 22, Heft 1, S. 205-215
In: Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales / publ. avec le concours de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme et de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 229 (septembre 2019)
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In: Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, Band 229, Heft 4, S. 4-13
ISSN: 1955-2564