05113nam 2200661 450 991046403120332120200520144314.01-78032-984-9(CKB)2670000000521261(EBL)1619939(SSID)ssj0001172809(PQKBManifestationID)11645549(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001172809(PQKBWorkID)11209125(PQKB)10838184(MiAaPQ)EBC1619939(Au-PeEL)EBL1619939(CaPaEBR)ebr10835460(CaONFJC)MIL572964(OCoLC)870228705(EXLCZ)99267000000052126120140213d2014 uy| 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrCapitalism in the age of globalization the management of contemporary society /Samir Amin ; with a foreword by John Bellamy Foster2nd ed.London :Zed Books,2014.1 online resource (194 p.)Economic ControversiesDescription based upon print version of record.1-78032-561-4 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 Socialism2 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 Regionalization4 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 CapitalismSolutions: 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; References7 Ideology and Social Thought: The Intelligentsia and the Development CrisisSamir 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.Economic ControversiesCapitalismBusiness cyclesCompetition, InternationalElectronic books.Capitalism.Business cycles.Competition, International.330.122Amin Samir88720MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464031203321Capitalism in the age of globalization2230940UNINA