LEADER 05113nam 2200661 450 001 9910464031203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-78032-984-9 035 $a(CKB)2670000000521261 035 $a(EBL)1619939 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001172809 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11645549 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001172809 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11209125 035 $a(PQKB)10838184 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1619939 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1619939 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10835460 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL572964 035 $a(OCoLC)870228705 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000521261 100 $a20140213d2014 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCapitalism in the age of globalization $ethe management of contemporary society /$fSamir Amin ; with a foreword by John Bellamy Foster 205 $a2nd ed. 210 1$aLondon :$cZed Books,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (194 p.) 225 1 $aEconomic Controversies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-78032-561-4 327 $aFront 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? 327 $aA 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 Socialism 327 $a2 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 Regionalization 327 $a4 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 Capitalism 327 $aSolutions: 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; References 327 $a7 Ideology and Social Thought: The Intelligentsia and the Development Crisis 330 $aSamir Amin remains one of the world's most influential thinkers about the changing nature of North-South relations in the development of contemporary capitalism. In this highly prescient book, originally published in 1997, he provides a powerful analysis of the new unilateral capitalist era following the collapse of the Soviet model, and the apparent triumph of the market and globalization. 410 0$aEconomic Controversies 606 $aCapitalism 606 $aBusiness cycles 606 $aCompetition, International 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCapitalism. 615 0$aBusiness cycles. 615 0$aCompetition, International. 676 $a330.122 700 $aAmin$b Samir$088720 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464031203321 996 $aCapitalism in the age of globalization$92230940 997 $aUNINA