PREDATORY LOGIC: going beyond inequality

Authors

  • Saskia Sassen Columbia University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.9771/ccrh.v35i0.48850

Keywords:

Inequality, Financialization., Global capitalism, expulsions, Systemic capabilities

Abstract

The article assumes that there are important constitutive elements in complex social parts that do not contribute to inequalities, but can be developed through systems of an analysis of income distributions. The focus here is a specific and complex reassembly of key elements that I see as one of the dynamic changes since the 1980s. Half of the article analyzes a specific case to illustrate its predatory characteristics, from the 2000s. from today's notion of inequality to arrive at the main logics at play. Fundamental to my argument is the distinction between finance and traditional banking. Characterization as finance as marked by a logic of collection and not of mass consumption. Thus, the specific modes that inequality assumes in the current period take us beyond unequal distributions of income and power.

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Author Biography

Saskia Sassen, Columbia University

Professora de Sociologia da Columbia University (Nova York). Seu mais recente livro é Cities at War (Columbia University Press, 2020), coeditado com Mary Kaldor; Cities in a World Economy (Sage, 2018), The Global City (2001) e de Expulsões: brutalidade e complexidade na economia global (2016), entre outros.

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Published

2022-06-07

How to Cite

Sassen, S. (2022). PREDATORY LOGIC: going beyond inequality. Caderno CRH, 35, e022002. https://doi.org/10.9771/ccrh.v35i0.48850