| Autore |
Bello Walden F
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| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
London, : Zed Books, 2013
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (282 pages)
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| Disciplina |
330.9051
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| Soggetto topico |
Capitalism
Income distribution
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| ISBN |
1-350-21889-8
1-78032-048-5
1-78032-047-7
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
About 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.
Germany'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.
Chapter 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.
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| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818340803321 |
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