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The Vampire State, The Vampire State is a popular and provocative look at the muddled way we talk about economics in America. In engaging prose, Fred L. Block argues that many familiar metaphors, such as the image of the government as a vampire sucking the lifeblood from ou, The Vampire State
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  • The Vampire State
  • Written by author Fred L. Block
  • Published by The New Press, 1998/01/30
  • The Vampire State is a popular and provocative look at the muddled way we talk about economics in America. In engaging prose, Fred L. Block argues that many familiar metaphors, such as the image of the government as a vampire sucking the lifeblood from ou
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Acknowledgments
Pt. I The Vampire State 1
1 Introduction 3
2 The Subterranean Underpinnings of the Conventional Wisdom 14
3 Capital As Blood: The Macro Level 22
4 Capital As Blood: The Micro Level 30
5 The State As Vampire 38
6 Survival of the Fittest through Market Competition: The Firm 46
7 Survival of the Fittest through Market Competition: The Human Species 58
8 The Counternarrative of Conscious Adaptation 68
9 A Family of Countermetaphors 75
10 The Logic and Illogic of Austerity 85
Pt. II Through a Glass Darkly: The Domestic Economy 95
11 Selective Mismeasurement 97
12 Why Wellbeing Does Not Count 104
13 What Will Getting Rid of the Deficit Do for Us? 114
14 The Alleged Savings Decline 128
15 Alternatives to Austerity 137
Pt. III Domestic Financial Structures 147
16 Finance: Growing Like a Weed 149
17 Bad Information Drives Out Good 157
18 The Problem of Financial Dictatorship 166
19 Weeds Running Wild: Speculative Frenzies 174
Pt. IV The Global Economy: Costs Exceeding Benefits 183
20 Global Overdosing 185
21 Overselling the Cure 192
22 Upping the Dosage: Free Trade in Finance 199
23 Weakening Local Economies 208
Pt. V Constructing the Future 223
24 Beyond Stalemate 225
25 Toward a Shared Vision: A Practical Utopia 232
26 Beyond the Economy: Other Dimensions of the Vision 243
27 Is This Vision Practical? 252
28 The Road Forward 259
29 Conclusion 276
Notes 287


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