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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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anomie

As the two sides act on mutually incompatible ideas of what is theirs by right, one emphasizing the entitlements of citizenship and the other those of property and market power, inflation may also be considered an expression of anomie in a society which, for structural reasons, cannot agree on common criteria of social justice

—p.79 The Crises of Democratic Capitalism (73) by Wolfgang Streeck
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tendentious

mainstream economics’ account of dysfunctions in the economy as being the result of a cleavage between traditionalist principles of moral economy and rational-modern principles amounts to a tendentious misrepresentation, for it hides the fact that the ‘economic’ economy is also a moral economy, for those with commanding powers in the market

—p.76 The Crises of Democratic Capitalism (73) by Wolfgang Streeck
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plutonomy

This was anticipated in the infamous ‘plutonomy’ memorandums distributed by Citibank in 2005 and 2006 to a select circle of its richest clients, to assure them that their prosperity no longer depended on that of wage earners

—p.68 How Will Capitalism End? (47) by Wolfgang Streeck
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financialization

As of the 1980s, deregulation of U.S. financial markets had abolished the restrictions on the private production and marketization of money devised after the Great Depression. ‘Financialization’, as the process came to be known, seemed the last remaining way to restore growth and profitability to the economy of the overextended hegemon of global capitalism.

—p.62 How Will Capitalism End? (47) by Wolfgang Streeck
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subsumption

Markets, however, have an inherent tendency to expand beyond their original domain, the trading of material goods, to all other spheres of life, regardless of their suitability for commodification – or, in Marxian terms, for subsumption under the logic of capital accumulation

—p.61 How Will Capitalism End? (47) by Wolfgang Streeck
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