TY - BOOK ID - 81167669 TI - Capital and imperialism : theory, history, and the present AU - Patnaik, Utsa AU - Patnaik, Prabhat PY - 2021 SN - 9781583678909 9781583678916 PB - New York : Monthly Review Press, DB - UniCat KW - Capitalism. KW - Imperialism KW - Economic aspects. KW - Economic order UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:81167669 AB - "Radical Marxist political economists Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik argue that the accumulation of capital has always required the taking of land, raw materials, and bodies from noncapitalist modes of production. They begin with a thorough debunking of mainstream economics. Then, looking at the history of capitalism, from the beginnings of colonialism half a millennium ago to today's neoliberal regimes, they discover that, over the long haul, capitalism, in order to exist, must metastasize itself in the practice of imperialism and the immiseration of countless people"-- ER -