A Political Economy Of Contemporary Capitalism And Its Crisis

Author : Dimitris P Sotiropoulos,John Milios,Spyros Lapatsioras
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
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Release : 2013-06-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135037925

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The recent financial meltdown and the resulting global recession have rekindled debates regarding the nature of contemporary capitalism. This book analyses the ongoing financialization of the economy as a development within capitalism, and explores the ways in which it has changed the organization of capitalist power. The authors offer an interpretation of the role of the financial sphere which displays a striking contrast to the majority of contemporary heterodox approaches. Their interpretation stresses the crucial role of financial derivatives in the contemporary organization of capitalist power relations, arguing that the process of financialization is in fact entirely unthinkable in the absence of derivatives. The book also uses Marx’s concepts and some of the arguments developed in the framework of the historic Marxist controversies on economic crises in order to gain an insight into the modern neoliberal form of capitalism and the recent financial crisis. Employing a series of international case studies, this book will be essential reading for all those with an interest in the financial crisis, and all those seeking to comprehend the workings of capitalism.

Author : Dimitris P Sotiropoulos,John Milios,Spyros Lapatsioras
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135037918

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A Political Economy of Contemporary Capitalism and its Crisis by Dimitris P Sotiropoulos,John Milios,Spyros Lapatsioras Pdf

The recent financial meltdown and the resulting global recession have rekindled debates regarding the nature of contemporary capitalism. This book analyses the ongoing financialization of the economy as a development within capitalism, and explores the ways in which it has changed the organization of capitalist power. The authors offer an interpretation of the role of the financial sphere which displays a striking contrast to the majority of contemporary heterodox approaches. Their interpretation stresses the crucial role of financial derivatives in the contemporary organization of capitalist power relations, arguing that the process of financialization is in fact entirely unthinkable in the absence of derivatives. The book also uses Marx’s concepts and some of the arguments developed in the framework of the historic Marxist controversies on economic crises in order to gain an insight into the modern neoliberal form of capitalism and the recent financial crisis. Employing a series of international case studies, this book will be essential reading for all those with an interest in the financial crisis, and all those seeking to comprehend the workings of capitalism.

Author : Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : OCLC:869847560

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A Political Economy of Contemporary Capitalism and Its Crisis by Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos Pdf

Author : Terrence McDonough,Michael Reich,David M. Kotz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521515160

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Contemporary Capitalism and Its Crises by Terrence McDonough,Michael Reich,David M. Kotz Pdf

This volume analyses contemporary capitalism and its crises based on a theory of capitalist evolution known as the social structure of accumulation (SSA) theory. It applies this theory to explain the severe financial and economic crisis that broke out in 2008 and the kind of changes required to resolve it. The editors and contributors make available new work within this school of thought on such issues as the rise and persistence of the "neoliberal," or "free-market," form of capitalism since 1980 and the growing globalization and financialization of the world economy. The collection includes analyses of the U.S. economy as well as that of several parts of the developing world.

Author : V. Upadhyay,Paramjit Singh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000483703

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Global Political Economy by V. Upadhyay,Paramjit Singh Pdf

The present volume makes students and researchers familiar with contemporary issues in global political economy with a focus on the working of global capitalism in the last four to five decades. The volume covers a wide range of issues from conceptual questions to empirical investigation with the aim to promote a critical understanding of the major challenges posed by contemporary capitalism. It contains contributions of leading political economists from India and abroad. The volume will be a significant resource for developing a graduate course in global political economy. This book is co-published with Aakar Books, New Delhi. Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the print versions of this book in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Author : Baris Karaagac
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783643904119

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Accumulations, Crises, Struggles by Baris Karaagac Pdf

This is a book about capitalism. To be more specific, it is about the most recent phase or stage of capitalist development, that is, neoliberal globalization. Neoliberalism, as much a political project as an economic one, is still pervasive, and it continues to provide the general framework for politics and political imagination across most of the globe. This volume brings together a group of valuable scholars from different parts of the world looking at the impact of neoliberalism on our societies. And, as such, it aspires to contribute as much to the critique and overcoming of this process as to its analysis. With its extensive coverage, both geographically and thematically, this book will be of interest for students of the social sciences as well as for anyone who makes an effort to understand and change the world in which she lives. Baris Karaagac is a lecturer in the Department of International Development Studies at Trent University, Canada.ò

Author : Bill Dunn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317751281

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The Political Economy of Global Capitalism and Crisis by Bill Dunn Pdf

The book provides a theoretically and historically informed analysis of the global economic crisis. It makes original contributions to theories of value, of crisis and of the state and uses these to develop a rich empirical study of the changing character of capitalism in the twentieth century and beyond. It defends, uses and develops Marxist theory while arguing particularly against jumping too quickly from abstract concepts to a concrete understanding of the crisis. Instead, it uses what Marx described in his notebooks as an ‘obvious’ analytical ordering to progress from a general analysis of economy and society to a discussion of recent economic transformations and the specifics of the crisis and its aftermath.Dunn argues that appropriately reconceived, a critical Marxism can incorporate and enrich rather than rejecting insights from other traditions. He disputes general characterisations of capitalism to the crisis and theories which see finance and the contemporary financial crises as largely detached from other aspects of the economy and society. Providing a thoroughly socialised and historically based account, this book will be vital reading for students and scholars of political economy, international political economy, Marxism, sociology, geography and development studies.

Author : Colin Crouch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : UVA:X000014736

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State and Economy in Contemporary Capitalism by Colin Crouch Pdf

Author : Giōrgos K. Liodakēs
Publisher : Gower Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0754675572

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Totalitarian Capitalism and Beyond by Giōrgos K. Liodakēs Pdf

Anchored in contemporary debates on capitalism and political economy, this study reconsiders the major trends which are shaping a new stage of capitalism. It constructs a politico-economic approach on contemporary capitalism from within a classical Marxist framework of political economy.

Author : Heiko Feldner,Fabio Vighi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781441169631

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Critical Theory and the Crisis of Contemporary Capitalism by Heiko Feldner,Fabio Vighi Pdf

This volume reassesses the nature of the current global economic crisis and its implication for the 21st century, through the unique lens of Marx's theory of the value-form as the unconscious matrix of modern society. Going beyond orthodox Marxist and postmodernist accounts, the author offers fresh new readings of Marx, Benjamin, Foucault, and Žižek. Here he argues that capitalism has not only entered its greatest crisis since WWII, but has in fact reached its historical limit and is in terminal decline. In this light, the book seeks to answer how a rerun of Keynesian regulations could possibly resolve the crisis. It also inquires as to whether a Green New Deal might succeed when the gap between work to be had and work to be done widens, and what alternatives neo-Marxian approaches offer considering the failure of Marxism in the 20th century. This far-reaching, critical examination of the crisis not only builds on critical theory, but also offers new readings of key theorists that will appeal to anyone interested in political theory, critical theory, and political economy.

Author : Susanne Soederberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135249427

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Corporate Power and Ownership in Contemporary Capitalism by Susanne Soederberg Pdf

Despite the influence corporations wield over all aspects of everyday life, there has been a remarkable absence of critical inquiry into the social constitution of this power. In analysing the complex relationship between corporate power and the widespread phenomenon of share ownership, this book seeks to map and define the nature of resistance and domination in contemporary capitalism. Drawing on a Marxist-informed framework, this book reconnects the social constitution of corporate power and changing forms of shareholder activism. In contrast to other texts that deal with corporate governance, this study examines a diverse and comprehensive set of themes, from socially responsible investing to labour-led shareholder activism and its limitations. Through this ambitious and critical study, author Susanne Soederberg demonstrates how the corporate governance doctrine represents an inherent feature of neoliberal rule, effectively disembedding and depoliticising relations of domination and resistance from the wider power and paradoxes of capitalism. Examining corporate governance and shareholder activism in a number of different contexts that include the United States and the global South, this important book will be of interest to students and scholars of international political economy, international relations and development studies. It will also be of relevance to a wider range of disciplines including finance, economics, and business and management studies. Winner of the Davidson/Studies in Political Economy Award.

Author : Laurence Cossu-Beaumont,Jacques-Henri Coste,Jean-Baptiste Velut
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317439127

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The Crisis and Renewal of U.S. Capitalism by Laurence Cossu-Beaumont,Jacques-Henri Coste,Jean-Baptiste Velut Pdf

Despite the reversal of America’s fortune from the triumphalism of the Roaring Nineties to the gloom of the lost decade and the Great Depression, theoretical conceptions of US capitalism have remained surprisingly unchanged. In fact, if the crisis questioned the sustainability of the US capitalist paradigm, it did not fundamentally challenge academic theorization of American political economy. This book departs from the American political economy literature to identify three common myths that have shaped our conceptualization of US capitalism: its reduction to a state-market dyad dis-embedded from societal factors; the illusion of a weak state and the synchronic conception of the US variety of capitalism. To remedy these pitfalls, the authors propose a civilizational approach to American political economy at the crossroads between cultural studies, history, sociology and political science. Drawing together contributions from a rich variety of fields (from geography to cultural studies, political science and sociology) this work sheds a new light on America’s "cultural political economy" combining theoretical reflection with empirical data and offering innovative perspectives on the crisis and renewal of American capitalism.

Author : Samir Amin
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781583674215

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The Implosion of Contemporary Capitalism by Samir Amin Pdf

Renowned political economist Samir Amin, engaged in a unique lifelong effort both to narrate and affect the human condition on a global scale, brings his analysis up to the present—the world of 2013. The key events of our times—financial crisis, the emerging nations, globalization, financialization, political Islam, Euro–zone implosion—are related in a coherent, historically based, account. Changes in contemporary capitalism require an updating of definitions and analysis of social classes, class struggles, political parties, social movements and the ideological forms in which they express their modes of action in the transformation of societies. Amin meets this challenge and lays bare the reality of monopoly capitalism in its general, global form. Ultimately, Amin demonstrates that this system is not viable and that the implosion in progress is unavoidable. Whether humanity will rise to the challenge of building a more humane global order free of the contradictions of capital, however, is yet to be seen.

Author : Alfredo Saad Filho
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001-11-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134566976

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The Value of Marx by Alfredo Saad Filho Pdf

Karl Marx's writings provide a uniquely insightful explanation of the inner workings of capitalism, which other schools of thought generally have difficulty explaining. From this vantage point, Marx's works can help to explain important features and economic problems of our age, and the limits of their possible solutions. For example, the necessity and origin of money, the growth of the wage-earning class, uneven development, cycles and crises, and the relevant impoverishment of the workers, leading to debt and overwork. The Value of Marx demonstrates that: *capitalist production necessarily involves conflicts in production and in distribution *competition is an essential feature of capitalism, but it often generates instability, crises and unemployment, showing that capitalism is not only the most productive but also the most systematically destructive mode of production in history *capitalist economies are unstable because of the conflicting forces of extraction, realisation and the accumulation of surplus value under competitive conditions. The instability is structural, and even the best economic policies cannot avoid it completely. The author critically reviews the methodological principles of Marx's value analysis and the best known interpretation of his value theory. He develops an interpretation of Marx focusing primarily upon the processes and relations that regulate social and economic reproduction under capitalism. When analysed from this angle, value theory is a theory of class and exploitation. The concept of value is useful because, among other reasons, it explains capitalist exploitation in spite of the predominance of voluntary market exchanges. The most important controversies in Marxian political economy are reviewed exhaustively, and new light is thrown on the meaning and significance of Marx's analysis and its relevance for contemporary capitalism.

Author : Alfredo Saad Filho
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789004393202

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Value and Crisis: Essays on Labour, Money and Contemporary Capitalism by Alfredo Saad Filho Pdf

Value and Crisis brings together selected essays written by Alfredo Saad-Filho. This book examines the labour theory of value and its implications for the nature of neoliberalism, financialisation, inflation, monetary policy, and the crises of contemporary capitalism.