Capitalism in the age of globalization : the management of contemporary society / Samir Amin ; with a foreword by John Bellamy Foster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Amin, Samir.

Series:

Economic Controversies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism.

Business cycles.

Competition, International.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Zed Books, 2014.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Samir Amin remains one of the world's most influential thinkers about the changing nature of North-South relations in the development of contemporary capitalism. In this highly prescient book, originally published in 1997, he provides a powerful analysis of the new unilateral capitalist era following the collapse of the Soviet model, and the apparent triumph of the market and globalization.

Contents:

Front cover; critique influence change; About the author; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acronyms; Foreword; Notes; Preface to the critique influence change edition; Generalized Monopoly Capitalism; The Triumph of Abstract Capital; The Financialization and Globalization of Capitalism; Financial Oligarchy and Generalized Proletarianization; Plutocracy: The New Ruling Class of Senile Capitalism; Crony Capitalism Goes Global; The New Business Class in the Peripheries; A Generalized but Segmented Proletariat; A Shift in the Centre of Gravity of Global Capitalism?

A Conflict with Great Potential for Progress Emerging Economies and Affirmation of Sovereignty; Political Projects, Social Bases and Legitimacy; The Implosion of Contemporary Capitalism; Note; Introduction; 1 The Future of Global Polarization; Unequal Development and the Historical Forms of Capitalism; The Present World System and the Five Monopolies of the Centre; An Alternative Humanist Project of Globalization; Obstacles to the Realization of this Project; Possible Future Scenarios and their Inadequacy; Renewing a Perspective of Global Socialism

2 The Capitalist Economic Management of the Crisis of Contemporary Society The 'Laws of History': Capitalism Expansion Not Synonymous with Development; The Institutional Structure: The Bretton Woods Institutions; The IMF; The World Bank; GATT-WTO; Globalization: The Necessity of International Economic Management; Reforming Bretton Woods; References; 3 Reforming International Monetary Management of the Crisis; Background; Flexible Exchange Rates are No Solution; Reform Proposals Emanating from the Mainstream; An Alternative Vision: Polycentric Regionalization

4 The Rise of Ethnicity: A Political Response to Economic Globalization The Postwar Cycle (1945-90) and the New Globalization; The Disintegration of the State and the New Ethnic Ideologies in the Third World; Globalization and the Crisis of the Nationhood; The Current Management of the Crisis and its Alternatives; Further Thoughts on Universalism versus Particularism and the Socialist Response to Nationalism; References; 5 What are the Conditions for Relaunching Development in the South?; Development off the Agenda; Contemporary Society is in Crisis, but there is Not Yet a Crisis of Capitalism

Solutions: Liberalism without Borders? Nationalism; The Dangers of Anti-Democratic Regression: The Ethnic Assault, Religious Fundamentalism and Neo-Fascism; Reflections on a Counter-Project: Some Basic Propositions; Notes; References; 6 The Challenges Posed by Globalization: The European Case; The Lack of Political Complimentarity in the Postwar European Economic Community Project; The EC's Achievements: A Balance-Sheet; The Future of European Integration in the Age of Globalization; A Different Future: A Radical Vision for Europe; References

7 Ideology and Social Thought: The Intelligentsia and the Development Crisis

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 13, 2014).

ISBN:

1-78032-984-9

OCLC:

870228705