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Introduction PART 1: Accumulating through the Exploitation of Labour and Nature 1. The dynamics of capital accumulation in managerial capitalism: the United States since World War II 2. Dispossessive wage labour: understanding accumulation and its crisis in contemporary Cameroon large-scale plantations 3. Between green growth and de-growth: locating the roots of climate change in capitalist accumulation 4. Exploring accumulation in the New Green Revolution for Africa. Ecological crisis, agrarian development and bio-capitalism PART 2: Accumulating through Financial Investment 5. Constructing a favourable environment for financial accumulation: the case of the City of London Corporation 6. Collective effort, private accumulation: constructing the Luxembourg investment fund, 19562019 7. Financial accumulation and exploitation: the case of leveraged buy-outs 8. Philanthrocapitalist accumulation and financial inclusion PART 3: Accumulating through Digital Technologies 9. Struggling to reform data capitalism: blockchain and the pipe dream of paying up 10. Predation in the age of algorithms: the role of intangible assets 11. Ghost management as a central feature of accumulation in corporate capitalism: the case of the global pharmaceutical sector PART 4: Accumulating Through the Transformation of Profit into Personal Wealth 12. The role of the owner in new capitalist accumulation processes: the case of Finland 13. Wealth managers, guardians of enrichment: the case of wealth managers in France 14. Accumulation and tax professionals: the case of tax consultants in Germany 15. Why do women accumulate less wealth than men?
