Unfettered capitalism: on rackets, cronies and mafiosi

Abstract In the early 1940s, critical theory borrowed the term racket from the urban crime underworld and applied it to criticize monopoly capitalism, which was regarded as a constellation ruled in a mafia-like manner. Decades later, after the experiences of the welfare state in the core counties an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Stefan Klein, Ricardo Pagliuso Regatieri
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade de Sâo Paulo
Series:Tempo Social
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-20702018000300067&lng=en&tlng=en