The Architecture of Capital
The Commodity and Its Fetish
On how capitalism obscures the labor that creates value by presenting social relationships as relationships between things
The Architecture of Capital
The Architecture of Capital
The Leisure Class
On how the leisure class emerged from predatory culture and perpetuates itself through emulation, conspicuous consumption, and the stigmatization of productive labor
The Architecture of Capital
The Neoliberal Revolution
On how Hayek's insight about dispersed knowledge became justification for market supremacy, and Friedman's vision of total market coordination as policy
The Architecture of Capital
The Return of the Rentier
On how capital's passive returns are outpacing productive work, and why the twenty-first century resembles the pre-industrial world more than the progressive narrative admits
The Architecture of Capital
How Money Is Actually Made
On how banks create money through lending rather than transferring it, and why this makes economies structurally prone to boom-and-bust cycles
The Architecture of Capital
The Financialization of Everything
On how shareholder value ideology restructured corporations, households, and daily life itself into engines of financial extraction and risk-shifting