Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity

ISBN-13: 9781107067479 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 258 str.

William I Robinson

Opis

This exciting new study provides an original and provocative expose of the crisis of global capitalism in its multiple dimensions economic, political, social, ecological, military, and cultural. Building on his earlier works on globalization, William I. Robinson discusses the nature of the new global capitalism, the rise of a globalized production and financial system, a transnational capitalist class, and a transnational state and warns of the rise of a global police state to contain the explosive contradictions of a global capitalist system that is crisis-ridden and out of control. Robinson concludes with an exploration of how diverse social and political forces are responding to the crisis and alternative scenarios for the future."

Recenzje

'Those readers who are searching for an explanation of the recent electoral results in places as dissimilar as Austria and the Philippines, not to mention the ongoing U.S. primary presidential contest, will surely find this book captivating. … Readers trying to make sense of local and national political, economic, and military developments anywhere in our planet will [also] benefit from the global capitalism framework presented in this book.' Aldo Caliari, Academic Council on the United Nations System (www.acuns.org)

Spis treści

1. Global capital and global labor; 2. Notes on transnational state apparatuses; 3. Beyond the theory of imperialism; 4. The 'Great Recession': financial speculation and militarized accumulation; 5. Policing global capitalism; 6. Interregnum: a new crisis of hegemony.