LEADER 04205nam 2200625 450 001 9910464877303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-78032-960-1 010 $a1-78032-959-8 035 $a(CKB)3710000000087162 035 $a(EBL)1696469 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001173947 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11667639 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001173947 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11106972 035 $a(PQKB)11660118 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1696469 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1696469 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10835462 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL572971 035 $a(OCoLC)871348844 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000087162 100 $a20140214h20142014 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHow capitalism failed the Arab world $ethe economic roots and precarious future of the Middle East uprisings /$fRichard Javad Heydarian ; with a foreword by Walden Bello 210 1$aLondon :$cZed Books,$d[2014] 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (226 p.) 225 0$aEconomic controversies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-78032-957-1 311 $a1-78032-958-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFront 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 disaster 327 $a3 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 revolution 327 $a5.2 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 Jordan 327 $a8 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 cover 330 $aEconomic liberalization has failed in the Arab world. Instead of precipitating democratic reform, it has over the last three decades resulted in greater poverty, inequality and unemployment. In How Capitalism Failed the Arab World, Richard Javad Heydarian shows how years of economic mismanagement, political autocracy and corruption have encouraged people to revolt, and how the initial optimism of the uprisings is now giving way to bitter power struggles and continued economic stagnation. 410 0$aEconomic controversies. 606 $aCapitalism$zArab countries 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCapitalism 676 $a226 700 $aHeydarian$b Richard Javad$0897288 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464877303321 996 $aHow capitalism failed the Arab world$92099828 997 $aUNINA