This work argues that a component part of US neoliberalism involves adaptive accumulation, a process in which capital seeks to enlarge public programs, as a means to reroute public revenues into private revenue streams. Along the way, corporations project quasi-public aspirations as a central part of their commercial mission, as the state carves out new - or expands old - areas of accumulative growth for corporate America.
Author(s): Rodney Loeppky
Series: De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences, 7
Publisher: De Gruyter
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 154
City: Berlin
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Adaptive Accumulation: Public Objectives, Private Revenues
Chapter 3: The Military and Adaptive Accumulation
Chapter 4: Health, Healthcare, and Adaptive Accumulation
Chapter 5: Education Reform and Adaptive Accumulation
Chapter 6: Incarceration, Detention, and Adaptive Accumulation
Chapter 7: Conclusion—Moving Forward in America
References
Index