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Peak Complexity is the concept that human societies address problems by adding social and economic complexity but that process is subject to diminishing marginal returns. Adding additional complexity will then impose growing burdens on those societies, making them more vulnerable to external threats.
Economic sociology is the study of the social cause and effect of various economic phenomena. The field can be broadly divided into a classical period and a ...
[62] [63] Economist Radhika Desai, while concurring that 1914 was the peak of the capitalist system, argues that the neoliberal reforms that were intended to restore capitalism to its primacy have instead bequeathed to the world increased inequalities, divided societies, economic crises and misery and a lack of meaningful politics, along with ...
Economic sociology arose as a new approach to the analysis of economic phenomena, emphasizing class relations and modernity as a philosophical concept. The relationship between capitalism and modernity is a salient issue, perhaps best demonstrated in Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905) and Simmel's The Philosophy of ...
Path dependence is a concept in the social sciences, referring to processes where past events or decisions constrain later events or decisions. [1] [2] It can be used to refer to outcomes at a single point in time or to long-run equilibria of a process. [3]
Peak capitalism is a term used in recent academic literature to describe a situation in which capitalism can no longer survive. The phrase is based on the concept of peak oil and suggests that a capitalist system in a postmodern world can no longer survive, given that the international system depends entirely upon non-renewable resources to reproduce society.
Myles Udland breaks down Tuesday’s Morning Brief, which details that the debate over the economy reaching peak growth doesn’t give us the complete picture as manufacturing growth potential is ...
Finance capitalism or financial capitalism is the subordination of processes of production to the accumulation of money profits in a financial system. [6]Financial capitalism is thus a form of capitalism where the intermediation of saving to investment becomes a dominant function in the economy, with wider implications for the political process and social evolution. [7]