What's Love Got to Do With It? Diamonds and the Accumulation of De Beers, 1935-55

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dc.contributor.advisorNitzan, Jonathan
dc.creatorCochrane, David Troy
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-20T16:41:32Z
dc.date.available2016-09-20T16:41:32Z
dc.date.copyright2015-12-11
dc.date.issued2016-09-20
dc.date.updated2016-09-20T16:41:32Z
dc.degree.disciplineSocial & Political Thought
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractWhat is accumulation? Visibly, accumulation is a quantitative process, demarcated in financial quantities. However, what is the meaning of those quantities? This question has been the subject of great debate within political economic thought. A new theory of accumulation, capital as power (CasP), argues that the financial quantities of accumulation express the distribution of power among the owners of capital over the qualitatively diverse, complex and mutating social order. With this dissertation, I explore the relationship between the quantities and qualities of accumulation by examining the De Beers diamond cartel, focusing on the period 1935-55. What does it mean to say capital is power in the specific setting of the global diamond assemblage? Research and analysis led me to focus on four important relationships that De Beers had to establish, maintain and transform in its struggle for differential accumulation: with diamonds themselves; with potential and actual diamond buyers; with governments; and, with families, especially the Oppenheimer family that controlled De Beers for over 80 years.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/32191
dc.language.isoen
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dc.subjectPolitical Science
dc.subject.keywordsDiamonds
dc.subject.keywordsDe Beers
dc.subject.keywordsWWII
dc.subject.keywordsWorld War 2
dc.subject.keywordsAccumulation
dc.subject.keywordsValue theory
dc.subject.keywordsCapital as power
dc.subject.keywordsActor network theory
dc.subject.keywordsAssemblage
dc.subject.keywordsContingent obligation
dc.subject.keywordsMateriality
dc.subject.keywordsMarket research
dc.subject.keywordsAdvertising
dc.subject.keywordsCorporate power
dc.subject.keywordsCapital-state relations
dc.subject.keywordsInternational relations
dc.subject.keywordsGlobalization
dc.subject.keywordsCartel
dc.subject.keywordsMonopoly
dc.subject.keywordsSabotage
dc.subject.keywordsAnti-trust
dc.subject.keywordsFamily
dc.subject.keywordsElite power
dc.subject.keywordsVested interests
dc.subject.keywordsOwnership
dc.subject.keywordsErnest Oppenheimer
dc.subject.keywordsHarry Oppenheimer
dc.subject.keywordsAccumulation studies
dc.titleWhat's Love Got to Do With It? Diamonds and the Accumulation of De Beers, 1935-55
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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