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the problems that the poor pose for capitalism archive/so478

So, even before Thomas Piketty’s book, the topic of ‘inequality’ had arrived in the economic mainstream, and with the following line of argumentation: inequality and poverty are no longer regarded so much as a consequence of capitalist economic growth, but rather as a brake on such growth and as a …

—p.12 Thomas Piketty's 'Capital in the Twenty First Century': An Introduction The Prelude: Redistribution, Inequality and Debt Crisis (5) by Ingo Stutzle, Stephen Kaufmann
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interest cannot be produced with disinterestedness

[...] Interest, in the restricted sense it is given in economic theory, cannot be produced without producing its negative counterpart, disinterestedness. The class of practices whose explicit purpose is to maximize monetary profit cannot be defined as such without producing the purposeless finality…

—p.2 The Forms of Capital by Pierre Bourdieu
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clandestine circulation of capital

[...] Thus the more the official transmission of capital is prevented or hindered, the more the effects of the clandestine circulation of capital in the form of cultural capital become determinant in the reproduction of the social structure. [...]

—p.14 by Pierre Bourdieu
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economic capital is at the root

So it has to be posited simultaneously that economic capital is at the root of all the other types of capital and that these transformed, disguised forms of economic capital, never entirely reducible to that definition, produce their most specific effects only to the extent that they conceal (not l…

—p.10 by Pierre Bourdieu