Contents -- List of Contributors VII -- List of Tables IX -- List of Figures XI -- List of Abbreviations XIII -- Vladimir Cvijanovi , Andrea Fumagalli, and Carlo Vercellone - Introduction 1 -- Part I: Theoretical Papers 7 -- 1. Andrea Fumagalli and Stefano Lucarelli - Cognitive Capitalism as a Financial Economy of Production 9 -- 2. Andrea Fumagalli - Bioeconomics and the Valorisation Process 41 -- 3. Matko Meštrovi - Values and Capabilities as Historical Determinants of Social Development 61 -- 4. Jean-Marie Monnier and Carlo Vercellone - Labour and Welfare State in the Transition to Cognitive Capitalism 71 -- 5. Cosma Orsi - Common Good in the Age of Knowledge? Arguing for a Radical Political Economy 87 -- 6. Aleksandar Kešeljevi - The Challenges of the New Millennium and the Specific Properties of Knowledge Require a New Understanding of Knowledge 115 -- 7. Carlos Prieto del Campo - M@Nufactnetting Antagonism, Subversively Reengineering Cognitive Global Labor Force, and Networking Class Struggles in the Age of the Cognitive Capitalism 131 -- Part II: Empirical Analysis - World, South-Eastern Europe 149 -- 1. Nadica Jovanovska and Natalija Nikolovska - The Big Trade Off of "New - Europe": Convergence or Divergence from USA Model of Capitalism 151 -- 2. Cristina Matos - Old-Age Pension Reforms in the EU: Innovation, Diffusion and Europeanization 171 -- 3. Pasquale Tridico - Growth, Inequality and Poverty in Emerging and Transition Economies 195 -- 4. Siniša Kuši - South-Eastern Europe Between Socialism, Transition and Capitalism 227.