Globalization Against Democracy: A Political Economy of Capitalism After Its Global Triumph

ISBN-13: 9781107190658 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 348 str.

Guoguang Wu

Opis

This book explores how global capitalism has reconfigured state-market relations, and how interactions among capital, labor and consumption threaten global democracy.

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Capitalism in institutional reconfiguration by globalization: a theoretical framework; 3. Institutional oligopoly and embedded coordination: concentrative movements of capital; 4. Human (im)mobility, social poverty and political inability: 'economic man' on the segmented labor market; 5. The shaping of the caged anarchy: standardized consumption, atomized consumers; 6. Global inequalities challenge democracy: sociopolitical impacts of transnational stratification; 7. Conclusion.