05079nam 2200649 450 991082630320332120230803195213.01-78032-984-9(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, InternationalCapitalism.Business cycles.Competition, International.330.122Amin Samir88720MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910826303203321Capitalism in the age of globalization2670870UNINA