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The Economy of Enrichment: Towards a New Form of Capitalism?

Susen, S. ORCID: 0000-0003-0643-1891 (2018). The Economy of Enrichment: Towards a New Form of Capitalism?. Berlin Journal of Critical Theory, 2(2), pp. 5-98.

Abstract

The main purpose of this paper is to provide a critical overview of the key contributions made by Luc Boltanski and Arnaud Esquerre in Enrichissement. Une critique de la marchandise (Paris: Gallimard, 2017). With the exception of one journal article, entitled 'The Economic Life of Things: Commodities, Collectibles, Assets', their collaborative work has received little attention in Anglophone circles. This paper aims to demonstrate that Boltanski and Esquerre's Enrichissement contains valuable insights into the constitution of Western European capitalism in the early twenty-first century. In order to substantiate the validity of this claim, the subsequent inquiry focuses on central dimensions that, in Boltanski and Esquerre's view, need to be scrutinized to grasp the nature of major trends in contemporary society, notably those associated with the consolidation of the enrichment economy. In the final section, attention will be drawn to several noteworthy limitations of Boltanski and Esquerre's analysis.

Publication Type: Article
Departments: School of Policy & Global Affairs > Sociology & Criminology
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