Political Economy and Global Capitalism: The 21st Century, Present and FutureRobert Albritton, Bob Jessop, Robert Jessop, Richard Westra This volume brings together original and timely writings by internationally renowned scholars that reflect on the current trajectories of global capitalism and, in the light of these, consider likely, possible or desirable futures. It offers theory-informed writing that contextualizes empirical research on current world-historic events and trends with an eye towards realizing a future of human, social and economic betterment. |
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Technological Dynamism and the Normative Justification of | 25 |
Capitalism Out of Joint | 43 |
What follows Neoliberalism? The Deepening Contradictions of | 67 |
A Political Economy | 89 |
Introduction | 123 |
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accumulation by dispossession Albritton American analysis Arrighi Basingstoke Brenner cadre capital accumulation capitalist capitalist development capitalist principles capitalist society cent central bank century Chapter commodification commodity competition consumption corporate costs countries crises crisis critique debt decommodification dynamics eco-sustainable ecological dominance emerging environmental example exchange rate fast food feminist Fordism forms framework Giovanni Arrighi global capitalism groups Harvey hegemony Hierarchical Polarization Paradigm historical human increasing industry Inflation Targeting innovations integration interest rates investment Keynesianism labour-power logic London macroeconomic Marx Marx’s Marxian economics Monetarism monetarist monetary policy movements neo-liberal neoconservative NMPC non-capitalist institutions organizations overaccumulation Panitch period Political Economy potential Press problems production qualitative regulation relations reproduction role sector socialist socialization of labour structure tendency Third World trade transformative processes uneven development use-value wage wage labour Westra women workers world market World Social Forum