Contemporary Capitalism And Civil Society

Author : Toshio Yamada
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811305177

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Contemporary Capitalism and Civil Society by Toshio Yamada Pdf

This book is devoted to analyzing contemporary capitalism both in Japan and in the world economy by using the theoretical framework of the French régulation theory and by revisiting the theory of civil society in postwar Japan. The Japanese theory of civil society proposed unique thinking about “freedom and equality” and “human rights” in the postwar era but could not help to come up with effective concepts for an economic analysis of that capitalism of the period. On the other hand, the régulation theory born in the 1970s is well known by its definition of postwar capitalism as Fordism, based on the elaboration of a new conceptual framework, but it soon proved unable to directly explain Japan’s experience by that central concept of Fordism. Inspired by consideration of Japanese civil society and also by the regulationist framework, the author has forged new analytical concepts such as “companyism” to understand Japanese capitalism including the recent “lost decades”, and he elaborates more carefully the concepts of “growth regime” and “institutional change” to grasp the dynamics of the world economy including today’s neoliberal trend. The original benefits of the book consist in 1) reviving a Japanese theory of civil society in the postwar period, 2) applying the régulation theory to the analysis of contemporary Japan, and 3) offering theoretical reflections on the conception of the world economy. Consequently, the author pays special attention to the relationship between the political and the economic as well as regulationist tools and the theory of civil society’s perspective. The principal message of the book is that capitalism or the market economy must be supported by a sound civil society.

Author : John Urry
Publisher : London : Macmillan
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037634057

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The Anatomy of Capitalist Societies by John Urry Pdf

Mostly discussed in terms of contributions from Marxist writing and debate.

Author : Victoria Goddard,Susana Narotzky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317745211

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Industry and Work in Contemporary Capitalism by Victoria Goddard,Susana Narotzky Pdf

Throughout history and in every geographical location, the rise and fall of industry, which impact the fate of large populations, are tied to the development and cultural entanglement of particular models that are articulated with political power. Models are understood as knowledge devices – expert, theoretical, practical and commonsense – that are embedded in cultural and social environments and designed through struggles at various scales. This book results from the collaboration of an interdisciplinary team bringing together specialists in anthropology, geography, sociology, economics, political science, mathematics and engineering around the theme of ‘Models and their Effects on Development Paths’. Based on empirical research conducted on the heavy industries, Industry and Work in Contemporary Capitalism addresses how models that inform the organization of work and production and are created by powerful actors may diverge from, overlap with, or contradict the models articulated by less powerful actors on the ground, and how they are connected across material and cultural spaces. Careful observation of industrial work and production as they unfold in and across specific localities and affects people’s livelihoods is complemented by analysis of how models circulate, through which channels of power, which institutional entities, which political connections. This volume explores an extensive theoretical terrain and a number of empirical cases that show, from different perspectives, how ideas about the economy, about work and industry, materialize in specific practices and interventions that affect people’s livelihoods.

Author : Iman Kumar Mitra,Ranabir Samaddar,Samita Sen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811010378

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Accumulation in Post-Colonial Capitalism by Iman Kumar Mitra,Ranabir Samaddar,Samita Sen Pdf

This volume looks at how accumulation in postcolonial capitalism blurs the boundaries of space, institutions, forms, financial regimes, labour processes, and economic segments on one hand, and creates zones and corridors on the other. It draws our attention to the peculiar but structurally necessary coexistence of both primitive and virtual modes of accumulation in the postcolony. From these two major inquiries it develops a new understanding of postcolonial capitalism. The case studies in this volume discuss the production of urban spaces of capital extraction, institutionalization of postcolonial finance capital, gendering of work forms, establishment of new forms of labour, formation of and changes in caste and racial identities and networks, and securitization—and thereby confirm that no study of contemporary capitalism is complete without thoroughly addressing the postcolonial condition. By challenging the established dualities between citizenship-based civil society and welfare-based political society, exploring critically the question of colonial and postcolonial difference, and foregrounding the material processes of accumulation against the culturalism of postcolonial studies, this volume redefines postcolonial studies in South Asia and beyond. It is invaluable reading for students and scholars of South Asian studies, sociology, cultural and critical anthropology, critical and praxis studies, and political science.

Author : Robert Fine,Shirin Rai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135218614

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Civil Society by Robert Fine,Shirin Rai Pdf

This volume examines the idea of civil society in its historical and contemporary dimensions. It provides a comprehensive and critical mapping of the idea, the burden of expectation that it has carried, and the intellectual and political dimensions that surround it.

Author : David Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UVA:X000356284

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Marxism and the Modern State by David Wells Pdf

Author : Roland Atzmüller,Brigitte Aulenbacher,Ulrich Brand,Fabienne Décieux,Karin Fischer,Birgit Sauer
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781788974240

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Capitalism in Transformation by Roland Atzmüller,Brigitte Aulenbacher,Ulrich Brand,Fabienne Décieux,Karin Fischer,Birgit Sauer Pdf

Presenting a profound and far-reaching analysis of economic, ecological, social, cultural and political developments of contemporary capitalism, this book draws on the work of Karl Polanyi, and re-reads it for our times. The renowned authors offer key insights to current changes in the relations between the economy, politics and society, and their ecological and social effects.

Author : Helmut Willke,Gerhard Willke
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781781006191

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Political Governance of Capitalism by Helmut Willke,Gerhard Willke Pdf

The global financial crisis has uncovered disastrous gaps in the governance of capitalism. This timely book argues for encompassing and intelligent forms of political governance of capitalism to mitigate against the possibility of future global systemic risk. This path-breaking book highlights that systemic risks emerge from a globally operating financial industry that is not only disconnected from the real economy but also allowed to hide in 'shadow banking' practices. Governance based on national regimes fails to cover 'finance-led' global capitalism. The authors argue that the risk of systemic meltdown will reappear unless intelligent governance regimes are installed, combining legally binding rules and civil society pressures to restore the balance between risk-taking and accountability. They illustrate the goal is 'resilient' capitalism in which the rules of the game are set by politics and knowledge-based discourse. Political Governance of Capitalism will prove invaluable for graduate and post-graduate students interested in economy, political science, political economy, globalization, global governance, sociology, and financial sciences.

Author : Susanne Soederberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135249434

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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 : Ellen Meiksins Wood
Publisher : Verso
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1991-12-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0860915727

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The Pristine Culture of Capitalism by Ellen Meiksins Wood Pdf

Capitalism was born in England, yet the dominant Western conceptions of modernity have come from elsewhere, notably from France, the historical model of “bourgeois” society. In this lively and wide-ranging book, Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that what is supposed to have epitomized bourgeois modernity, especially the emergence of a “modern” state and political culture in Continental Europe, signalled the persistence of precapitalist social property relations. Conversely, the absence of a “modern” state and political discourse in England testified to the presence of a well-developed capitalism. The fundamental flaws in the British economy are not just the symptoms of arrested development but the contradictions of the capitalist system itself. Britain today, Wood maintains, is the most thoroughly capitalist culture in Europe. Weaving together economic and political history with the history of ideas, Wood ranges across a broad spectrum of current debates, from the “Nairn–Anderson theses” to the contribution of J.C.D. Clark and Alan Macfarlane, and over a wide variety of topics: the development of British capitalism and French absolutism; the state, the nation and their symbolic representations; revolution and tradition; the cultural patterns of English speech, urbanism, ruralism and the landscape garden; ideas of sovereignty, democracy, property and progress. This book will be as interesting and provocative to observers of contemporary capitalism as to historians of early modern Europe or Western political thought.

Author : Toby Carroll,Darryl Jarvis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317358527

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Markets and Development by Toby Carroll,Darryl Jarvis Pdf

Markets and Development presents a series of critical contributions focused on the political relationship between citizens, civil society, and neoliberal development policy’s latest form. The dramatic increase of ‘access to finance’ investments, newly gender-sensitive approaches to building neoliberal labour markets, the universal promotion of public-private partnerships, and the ‘development financing’ of extractive industries, have all seen citizens, social movements, and NGOs variously engaged in, and against, neoliberalism like never before. The precise form that this engagement takes is conditioned by both the perceived and real opportunities, and the risks, of an agenda which seeks to intern ‘emerging’ and ‘frontier markets’ deep within a concretising world market, with transformative repercussions for both those involved and, notably, for state-society relations. The contributors to this volume focus on essential aspects of the contemporary neoliberal development agenda and its relationship to and with citizens and civil society, tackling questions related to the roles that various actors within civil society in the underdeveloped world are playing under late capitalism, and how these roles relate to current efforts to establish and extend markets, and market society more broadly, in a neoliberal image. This book was originally published as a special issue of Globalizations.

Author : David L. Blaney,Naeem Inayatullah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135265045

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Savage Economics by David L. Blaney,Naeem Inayatullah Pdf

Challenges the powerful and pervasive ideas concerning political economy, international relations, and ethics in the modern world. This title provides a fundamental cultural critique of political economy and critically describes the nature of the mainstream understanding of economics.

Author : Maarten Prak,Jan Luiten van Zanden
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691242330

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Pioneers of Capitalism by Maarten Prak,Jan Luiten van Zanden Pdf

How medieval Dutch society laid the foundations for modern capitalism The Netherlands was one of the pioneers of capitalism in the Middle Ages, giving rise to the spectacular Dutch Golden Age while ushering in an era of unprecedented, long-term economic growth. Pioneers of Capitalism examines the formal and informal institutions in the Netherlands that made this economic miracle possible, providing a groundbreaking new history of the emergence and early development of capitalism. Drawing on the latest quantitative theories in economic research, Maarten Prak and Jan Luiten van Zanden show how Dutch cities, corporations, guilds, commons, and other private and semipublic organizations provided safeguards for market transactions in the state’s absence. Informal institutions developed in the Netherlands long before the state created public safeguards for economic activity. Prak and van Zanden argue that, in the Netherlands itself, capitalism emerged within a robust civil society that constrained and counterbalanced its centrifugal forces, but that an unrestrained capitalism ruled in the overseas territories. Rather than collapsing under unrestricted greed, the Dutch economy flourished, but prosperity at home came at the price of slavery and other dire consequences for people outside Europe. Pioneers of Capitalism offers a panoramic account of the early history of capitalism, revealing how a small region of medieval Europe transformed itself into a powerhouse of sustained economic growth, and changed the world in the process.

Author : Chris Wyatt
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781441159335

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The Defetishized Society by Chris Wyatt Pdf

The book moves beyond Marx's concepts of capital as value in motion and the fetishism of commodities to sketch an alternative called New Economic Democracy.

Author : Ralph Miliband
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Capitalism.
ISBN : 0192852345

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Divided Societies by Ralph Miliband Pdf

What is the meaning of "class struggle" in advanced capitalist societies? Recent political debate has tended to marginalize the question of class conflict, a notion seen as central by earlier thinkers of both the left and the right. In this study Miliband argues for the continued relevance and centrality of class struggle in today's Western societies and examines current examples of class structures and power relationships in the West. He analyzes the role of both labor organizations and new social movements such as the "green" and "feminist" movements in the class struggles of today and explores the ways in which the power elites and dominant classes seek to maintain the social order.