04205nam 2200625 450 991046487730332120200520144314.01-78032-960-11-78032-959-8(CKB)3710000000087162(EBL)1696469(SSID)ssj0001173947(PQKBManifestationID)11667639(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001173947(PQKBWorkID)11106972(PQKB)11660118(MiAaPQ)EBC1696469(Au-PeEL)EBL1696469(CaPaEBR)ebr10835462(CaONFJC)MIL572971(OCoLC)871348844(EXLCZ)99371000000008716220140214h20142014 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHow capitalism failed the Arab world the economic roots and precarious future of the Middle East uprisings /Richard Javad Heydarian ; with a foreword by Walden BelloLondon :Zed Books,[2014]©20141 online resource (226 p.)Economic controversiesDescription based upon print version of record.1-78032-957-1 1-78032-958-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Front cover; Economic Controversies; About the author; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Foreword by Walden Bello; 1 A brave new Middle East: the birth of a new era; Arab exceptionalism; Table 1.1 The Arab world's dismal political record; The new awakening; The age of the unthinkable; Revolutions and economic crises; 2 The anti-development state: economic origins of Arab upheavals; An ocean of broken vows; Kemalism and its discontents; Taking on the West; The grand disappointment; The development debacle; The rentier state; The path to disaster3 The advent of economic globalization: a prelude to crisisTransforming the global South; The demographic conundrum; 4 The Great Recession: the collapse of Arab crony capitalism; The impact on the Arab world; Table 4.1 Average GDP growth in MENA; 4.1 Merchandise exports of selected MENA countries; 4.2 Current account balance as percentage of GDP; Food insecurity and protests; So what's next?; 5 The new power brokers: political Islam and the Arab summer; The evolution of political Islam; From the peripheries to the core; 5.1 Declining foreign investment during the revolution5.2 Rising budget deficits in post-revolution statesTable 5.1 Egypt: selected economic indicators; Table 5.2 Morocco: selected economic indicators; Table 5.3 Tunisia: selected economic indicators; Any solution in store?; 6 Gulf exceptionalism: how the monarchies have reshaped the Arab Spring; The counter-revolution; Table 6.1 GCC key economic indicators; 7 Peering into the abyss: the Arab Spring at the crossroads; Back to Year Zero; The slow-motion death of a nation; The reign of terror; 7.1 Breakdown of external aid to ATCs and Jordan8 Where do we go from here? Finding the true path to an Arab SpringThe developmental state deficit; Table 8.1 Main characteristics of the region; Notes; References; Index; Back coverEconomic liberalization has failed in the Arab world. Instead of precipitating democratic reform, it has over the last three decades resulted in greater poverty, inequality and unemployment. In How Capitalism Failed the Arab World, Richard Javad Heydarian shows how years of economic mismanagement, political autocracy and corruption have encouraged people to revolt, and how the initial optimism of the uprisings is now giving way to bitter power struggles and continued economic stagnation.Economic controversies.CapitalismArab countriesElectronic books.Capitalism226Heydarian Richard Javad897288MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464877303321How capitalism failed the Arab world2099828UNINA