Global Capitalism: Selected Essays

ISBN-13: 9780415726405 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 244 str.

Hugo Radice

Opis

The essays in this volume were published across the 1984-2011 period, and range across a variety of topics and approaches to investigate the changing nature of global capitalism as a social order. As such, they are a valuable and instructive account of the evolution of global capitalism and of the debates which sought to make sense of this; moreover, they enable us to understand more clearly how capitalism may change and evolve in the coming years and decades. The introduction provides a brief historical account of how global capitalism has changed since the 1960s, before summarising each of the essays, situating them more immediately in the context in which they were written. After sketching the evolution of his views over the period, the author concludes by discussing some important dimensions of global capitalism that need further study. The twelve essays are presented in four sections, dealing with the overarching theme of globalisation; the case of Britain; the developing regions of the global South and the former Soviet bloc; and the crisis that has gripped global capitalism since 2008. Presenting an interdisciplinary approach that corresponds with the emergence of international political economy as a distinct field of scholarship, this book will prove to be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of international political economy, politics, economics, international relations, development studies, human geography, critical sociology and business studies.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  Part 1. Globalisation  2. The national economy - a Keynesian myth?  3. Capital, labour and the state in the world economy  4. Responses to globalisation: a critique of progressive nationalism  Part 2. Britain and the world economy  5. Keynes and the policy of practical protectionism  6. Britain in the world economy: national decline, capitalist success?  7. Britain and Europe: class, state and the politics of integration  Part 3. Global capitalism and development  8. Capitalism restored: East-Central Europe in the light of globalisation  9. Halfway to paradise? Making sense of the semiperiphery  10. The developmental state under global neoliberalism  Part 4. The recent crisis  11. Confronting the crisis: a class analysis  12. Cutting government deficits: economic science or class war?  13. The crisis and the global South: from development to capitalism

O autorze

Hugo Radice is a Life Fellow and former Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy at the University of Leeds, UK.