This is an account that begins with the current condition - a brutal capitalism increasingly dominated by a financial logic that goes well beyond conventional understandings of capital accumulation. The effect is a massive gap between that which ...
The financial logic of neo-liberal capitalism has devoured the world and exhausted itself in the process. A new model beyond "financialisation" is needed, says Saskia Sassen.
Warlords. They have a bad name but not all they do is bad. Their basic premise is that a good gun is better than a good law. Then there is the horsetrading: you give me oil, I will get you aid for Aids treatment; horsetrading can work when bureauc...
Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Member, The committee on Global Th... more
Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Member, The committee on Global Thought, Columbia University (www.columbia.edu/~sjs2/). Her new book is Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages ( Princeton University Press 2008) and A Sociology of Globalization (Norton 2007). She has now completed for UNESCO a five-year project on sustainable human settlement based on a network of researchers and activists in over 30 countries; it is published as one of the volumes of the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS) (Oxford, UK: EOLSS Publishers) [http://www.eolss.net ]. Her books are translated into nineteen languages. She has written for The Guardian, The New York Times, OpenDemocracy.net, Le Monde Diplomatique, the International Herald Tribune, Newsweek International, the Financial Times, Huffington.com, among others. less
