Defending the Status Quo in The Dark Knight Rises by Jesse Russell

“…The film presents a number of villains who challenge the corrupt social order of Gotham City, which itself stands as a figure for twenty-first century American capitalism. Nonetheless, despite these criticisms, the film upholds American neoliberalism as the best of many flawed systems.…”
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The Centrality of Finance by William K. Tabb

“…In the contemporary conjuncture financialization is driving a fundamentalreorganization of American capitalism and increasingly that of other economiessignificantly impacting the trajectory of the world-system. …”
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History, Interests, and Groups: Some Remarks on Two Recent Books on Adam Smith by Matteo Santarelli

“…Liu’s Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism, Princeton UP 2022. Keywords: Adam Smith, Adam-Smith-Problem, Sympathy and Self-Interest, Rosolino, Glory Liu …”
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Josef Steindl: An Economist of His Times by Nina Shapiro

“…Special attention is given to his seminal work on the Great Depression: Maturity and Stagnation in American Capitalism (1952). His work, which covered all the critical economic developments of the 20th century, greatly illuminated the problems of his times, and is as relevant to the problems of our own as it was to his.…”
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Between Novak and Maritain: The discussion on the capitalist economy in Catholic thought by Hoevel Carlos

“…However, in his famous book, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism, and in other previous works, Novak tries to show some possible bridges between Maritain’s thought and the virtues of American capitalism. This attempt is actually part of a larger project by Novak: that of showing the essential compatibility of Catholicism with capitalism. …”
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Josef Steindl: An Economist of His Times by Nina Shapiro

“…Special attention is given to his seminal work on the Great Depression: Maturity and Stagnation in American Capitalism (1952).  His work, which covered all the critical economic developments of the 20th century, greatly illuminated the problems of his times, and is as relevant to the problems of our own as it was to his.       …”
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Religion, Segregation, and Voting Rights: Unforgetting the Legacies of Bishops George Foster Pierce and Lucius Henry Holsey in Hancock County, Georgia, USA by Leo Braselton Gorman

“…Through an examination of the lives of my ancestor, Bishop George Foster Pierce, and his Black contemporary, Bishop Lucius Holsey, I seek to illustrate how the forces of settler colonialism, White supremacy, and emergent American capitalism converged with religious paternalism to shape their material lives and moral perspectives. …”
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US Political Economy and the Clash over Emancipation on the Eve of the Civil War by Matteo Rossi

“…The essay’s goal is to show that, between the 1830s and the 1850s, Northern economists, against radical abolitionism, elaborated a gradual and limited vision of emancipation, in the attempt to guarantee, even after the end of slavery, the command over black labor in the South and the persistence of American capitalism’s racial and class hierarchies. Moreover, the essay highlights how this vision of emancipation, despite being influential on the Republican Party and the Lincoln administration, was defeated by the slaves’ «general strike» during the Civil War.…”
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« We need to […] out-innovate the world » : les tribulations de la politique de compétitivité américaine by Jean-Baptiste Velut

“…In order to shed light on the shifts and continuity of American capitalism, we will seek to transcend the state-market dichotomy to reveal the complex modalities of state intervention and the interpenetration of public and private spheres.…”
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Imperialism in Latin America and the current relevance of the Marxist dependency theory by Glauber Lopes Xavier

“…The main purpose is to point out the relevance of the theory to understand the peripheral Latin American capitalism in contemporary times, giving due importance to the economic and political elaborations within the framework of Ruy Mauro Marini’s thoughts. …”
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Tradizione giuridica occidentale e modernizzazione latinoamericana by Alessandro Somma

“…Moreover, those who describe Latin American capitalism as less developed than the Western one, neglect the fact that underdevelopment was at least partially imposed; they also ignore the fact that, what is meant by underdevelopment, may also be seen as an alternative modernity program. …”
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Post-Crisis Anglo-Saxon Capitalism by Christopher J. Nock, Catherine Coron

“…The final part considers the extent to which the pre-crisis Anglo-Saxon model contributed to the recent crisis of global capitalism, and whether Anglo-American capitalism has actually come out of the ruins.…”
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Contested capitalism : financial politics and implications for China by Carney, Richard

“…I find that China resembles continential European capitalism far more than Anglo-American capitalism, and that it is likely to remain this way for foreseeable future.…”
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Historical transformation and epistemological discontinuity by Močnik Rastko

“…The hypothesis to be tested is the following: While the crisis of West European-North American capitalism requires an ever tighter submission of ideological state apparatuses, and especially of scientific and academic apparatuses to the needs of the capital, theoretical practices in the humanities and social sciences have come to the point where they entered into an open conflict with the domination of the capital and have, as a consequence, started to subvert their own institutional supports in the ideological apparatuses of the capitalist state. …”
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The Forces of Life and Death in Roch Carrier's Fiction by David J. Bond

“…As French-Canadians, they are threatened with destruction by the English-speaking world and by American capitalism. Yet they affirm their will to live by clinging to life; they react against their religion of death by blaspheming, and, in some cases, by openly rejecting it. …”
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La série Fargo ou le ré-ensauvagement du monde. Une économie politique de la prédation by Laure Flandrin

“…To this permanent interweaving of the registers of economics, biology and war, the series classically opposes a moral resourcing of American capitalism in its original Protestant ethic, but also proposes a far more radical political critique of economic ultra-liberalism.…”
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Overexploitation of the Workforce and Concentration of Wealth: Key Issues for Development Policy in Brazilian Peripheral Capitalism by Niemeyer Almeida Filho

“…In his most important work— Dialectics of Dependence (1973 [2000])—Marini shows that this very specific Latin American capitalism is deformed as compared to that observed in advanced countries. …”
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„Granma" i „El Nuevo Herald" - kubańska wojna propagandowa przed wyborami prezydenckimi w USA w 2004 roku by Radosław Sajna

“…The basis of the conflict was still a vision of Cuba's development - Castro's communism or pro-American capitalism? …”
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An individualism without individuals. A sociological approach to the capitalist symbolism of Chicago and New York skyscrapers by Juan Antonio Roche Cárcel, Ángel Enrique Carretero Pasín

“…In short, we will try to highlight the following symbolic questions: if the skyscrapers of Chicago and New York represent the defense of an American business culture marked by strong competitiveness and individualism; if they express the aesthetic transition from a capitalist rationalist architecture to another aesthetic where fiction, fantasy and spectacularity prevail; if this process is in tune with the transformation from an industrial capitalism to another of consumption and if it manifests itself through the decline of rationalist structural architectural elements towards others marked by glass, lightness, fluidity, liquidity and commodification; if the individualism that characterizes North American capitalism has also mutated in recent decades, that is, if from a primitive exaltation of autonomy as a core value of society, it drifts towards the cult of an individualized, privatized self disconnected from public space. …”
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Challenging and Reinforcing the Ability/Disability System through Advocacy for Disabled Dogs by Katja M. Guenther

“…Drawing on observations from three years of ethnographic fieldwork in an animal shelter and with animal rescues, as well as from public media volunteers and rescuers post online, I adopt an intersectional analysis that attends to inequalities of species, ability/disability, and gender in the context of contemporary American capitalism. I show how members of the animal rescue community—who are all women, almost all white, and none of whom identified themselves as disabled—reject the shelter's practice of fast-tracking some types of disabled dogs for shelter killing and assert instead the right of disabled dogs to live. …”
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