Capitalism in the age of globalization : the management of contemporary society / / Samir Amin ; with a foreword by John Bellamy Foster

• Autore: Amin Samir
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Zed Books, , 2014
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (194 p.)
• Disciplina: 330.122
• Soggetto topico: Capitalism; Business cycles; Competition, International
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Socialism ; 2 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 ; 4 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 ; Solutions: 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 ; 7 Ideology and Social Thought: The Intelligentsia and the Development Crisis
• Sommario/riassunto: Samir 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Capitalism in the age of globalization
• ISBN: 1-78032-984-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826303203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Economic Controversies