LEADER 04041nam 2200637 450 001 9910779713703321 005 20210311111955.0 010 $a1-350-21889-8 010 $a1-78032-048-5 010 $a1-78032-047-7 024 7 $a10.5040/9781350218895 035 $a(CKB)2550000001102184 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000970873 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12470313 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000970873 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10929757 035 $a(PQKB)10824898 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1218803 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1218803 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10732074 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL495268 035 $a(OCoLC)853360619 035 $a(OCoLC)847951857 035 $a(CaBNVSL)9781350218895 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001102184 100 $a20210311h20212013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCapitalism's last stand? $edeglobalization in the age of austerity /$fWalden Bello 210 1$aLondon, England :$cZed Books,$d2013. 210 2$a[London, England] :$cBloomsbury Publishing,$d2021 215 $a1 online resource (282 pages) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-78032-045-0 311 $a1-78032-046-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAbout the Author; Title page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction . Globalization's Debacle: Crisis and Opportunity; Part I: The Destructive Dynamics of Finance Capital; Chapter 1 . Why and How Finance Became Dominant; A primer on Wall Street meltdown; Recovery recedes, convulsion looms; Chapter 2 . The US: Cutting Edge of Crisis; Capitalism in an apocalyptic mood; The political consequences of stagnation; Lessons of the Obama debacle; Chapter 3 . Europe's Tragic Spiral; The Celtic Tiger follows the Asian Tigers to extinction; Greece: same tragedy, different scripts. 327 $aGermany's Social Democrats and the European crisisChapter 4 . Invulnerable Asia?; Chain-gang economics; China lassoes its neighbors; Will China save the world from depression?; Part II: Globalization in Crisis; Chapter 5 . The Real Economy of the Global Economy; Capital is a fickle lover; The Apple connection; Labor trafficking: modern-day slave trade; Destroying African agriculture; Chapter 6 . Capitalism and the Environment; Climate and capitalism in Copenhagen; Can capitalism survive climate change?; Breaking the climate stalemate; Seven billion ... and rising. 327 $aChapter 7 . The End of Multilateralism?The crisis of multilateralism; The Dracula round; U20: will the global economy resurface?; Part III: Competing Alternatives; Chapter 8 .Keynesianism in the Breach; Keynes: a man for this season?; The coming capitalist consensus; Chapter 9 . Resistance and Transformation; Elites vs greens in the global South; Defy the creditors and get away with it; The Arab revolutions and the democratic imagination; The World Social Forum at the crossroads; Conclusion. Deglobalization: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?; Index. 330 $aThis eye-opening and often scathing book provides a forensic dissection of contemporary capitalism's multiple crises. Trenchant but constructive, Walden Bello's analysis of the collapse of the global real economy, covering such issues as the Wall Street meltdown, the disintegration of the Greek economy, and the rise of China, emphasizes the ever more pressing need to engage in a radical process of deglobalization towards a decentralized, pluralistic world system. 606 $aGlobalization$xEconomic aspects 606 $aPolitical economy$2bicssc 615 0$aGlobalization$xEconomic aspects. 615 7$aPolitical economy 676 $a330.9051 700 $aBello$b Walden F.$0288990 801 0$bIDEBK 801 1$bCaBNVSL 801 2$bCaBNVSL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779713703321 996 $aCapitalism's last stand$93739293 997 $aUNINA