{"product_id":"market-and-violence-9789004522121","title":"Market and Violence","description":"** Winner of the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.deutscherprize.org.uk\/wp\/\"\u003eDeutscher Memorial Prize 2023\u003c\/a\u003e. **\n\nDespite their many disagreements when it comes to the subject of capitalism, Marxist and market-liberal approaches seem to agree about one thing: the economic structures of capitalist market society have made direct violence against the person not only superfluous, but economically counterproductive. Heide Gerstenberger's \u003ci\u003eMarket and Violence\u003c\/i\u003e does not contest the thesis that there has been, in many places, a decline in the use of violence in the pursuit of profit; but it demolishes the assumption that this can be put down to the evolution of economic rationality. By means of a deep engagement with the concrete historical reality of capitalist economies, Gerstenberger establishes that, wherever capitalism has been tamed, this has been achieved only by a combination of energetic social contestation and political intervention. First published in German in 2018, the present English-language edition makes a sweeping history of capitalist violence by one of the preeminent theorists of capitalist society working today available to a wider readership.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Niall Bond","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48270212169979,"sku":"9789004522121","price":291.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_02cb68a8-b885-4e35-a963-0c5b4c0d9211.jpg?v=1770962615","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/market-and-violence-9789004522121","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}