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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458524903321

Titolo

The United States in decline / / edited by Richard Lachmann ; contributors, Fred Block [and nine others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bingley, England : , : Emerald, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-78350-830-2

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 pages)

Collana

Political Power and Social Theory, , 0198-8719 ; ; Volume 26

Disciplina

306.20972999999998

Soggetti

Government information - Access control - United States

Government information - United States

Official secrets - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : the United States in decline? / Richard Lachmann -- Can the U.S. sustain its global position? Dynamism and stagnation in the U.S. institutional model / Fred Block, Matthew R. Keller -- Cold War and China in the (un)making of the dollar standard / Ho-fung Hung -- Capital accumulation and the rise of Finance / Marcel Knudsen -- The flailing hegemon : managing U.S. military decline / Ian Roxborough, Zoe Levy -- Elite fragmentation and the decline of the United States / Mark Mizruchi, Mikell Hyman -- From consensus to paralysis in the United States, 1960-2010 / Richard Lachmann -- Convergence-2, or the fate of other superpower / Georgi Derluguian.

Sommario/riassunto

Is the United States in decline? If so, what are the causes and dimensions of that decline and is it irreversible? Will American decline be accompanied by the rise of a new hegemon? To what extent are that rise and decline merely concurrent processes, determined by forces internal to each polity, or are American decline and the rise of its competitors both manifestations of a single global dynamic? The essays in this volume address those questions by examining the rise of finance in the U.S. and worldwide, the U.S. government's actual industrial strategy, China's failure so far to challenge th