Economic Cycles and Social Movements: Past, Present and Future

ISBN-13: 9780367528270 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 208 str.

Eric Mielants; Katsiaryna Salavei Bardos

Opis

This volume offers diverse perspectives on the complex interrelationship between social challenges and economic crises in the Modern World System, providing a great opportunity to reflect upon the ongoing conceptual and empirical challenges when confronting the complex interrelations of economic cycles and social movements.

Spis treści

1. Introduction, by Eric Mielants and Katsiaryna Salavei Bardos 2. Immanuel Wallerstein, "Cycles Within Structures vs. Structural Crises" 3. Matías Vernengo, “The Crisis of the Neoliberal Order? On the Structural Crisis of the Modern World-System” 4. Ganesh K. Trichur, “Business Cycles and Militarism in Historical Capitalism” 5. Taylor Mann, “The Dialectics of Political Economy” 6. Rodrigo Luiz Medeiros da Silva and Lucimara Flavio dos Reis. “Brazil: From the Vicissitudes of Systemic Rebalancing to the Crossroads of Conservatism.” 7. Luis Garrido Soto, “Space, Transport, and the World-Market: Maritime Transportation, FreightRates,and the Global Control of Foreign Trade Flows in the Capitalist World-System.” 8. Daniel H. Neilson. “Polanyi’s Minskyian Monetary System”. 9. Daniel Gugan, “An Embedded-Systems Approach to the Socio-Economic Cycles of the World System.” 10. Juan Pablo Vásquez Bustamante and Luis Clavería, “A Source for Greater Peripheral Sovereignty or a New Axis of Dependency Relations? China and Latin America in the Context of the Readjustment of Forces in the World System: The Case of China–Ecuador Relations.” 11. Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz and Corey R. Payne “Rethinking Core and Periphery in Historical Capitalism: ‘World-Magnates’ and the Shifting Epicenters of Wealth Accumulation”. 12. María José Haro Sly, Julien Demelenne and Eric Mielants “Alternatives to Western Economic Models? Latin-American “Buen Vivir/Good Living” and the Opening of the Social Sciences”.