Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis

Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis
Author: Andreas Bieler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2018-05-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1108666086

Download Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

This book assesses the forces of social struggle shaping the past and present of the global political economy from the perspective of historical materialism. Based on the philosophy of internal relations, the character of capital is understood in such a way that the ties between the relations of production, state-civil society, and conditions of class struggle can be realised. By conceiving the internal relationship of global capitalism, global war, global crisis as a struggle-driven process, the book provides a novel intervention on debates within theories of 'the international'. Through a set of conceptual reflections, on agency, structure and the role of discourses embedded in the economy, class struggle is established as our point of departure. This involves analysing historical and contemporary themes on the expansion of capitalism through uneven and combined development, the role of the state and geopolitics, and conditions of exploitation and resistance. These conceptual reflections and thematic considerations are then extended in a series of empirical interventions, including a focus on the 'rising powers' of the BRICS, conditions of the 'new imperialism', and the ongoing financial crisis. The book delivers a radically open-ended dialectical consideration of ruptures of resistance within the global political economy.

Global Capitalism

Global Capitalism
Author: Jeffry A. Frieden
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 807
Release: 2020-07-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1324004207

Download Global Capitalism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

"One of the most comprehensive histories of modern capitalism yet written." —Michael Hirsh, New York Times An authoritative, insightful, and highly readable history of the twentieth-century global economy, updated with a new chapter on the early decades of the new century. Global Capitalism guides the reader from the globalization of the early twentieth century and its swift collapse in the crises of 1914–45, to the return to global integration at the end of the century, and the subsequent retreat in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008.

Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity

Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity
Author: William I. Robinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2014-07-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107067472

Download Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

This book discusses the nature of the new global capitalism, the rise of a globalized production and financial system, a transnational capitalist class, and a transnational state and warns of the rise of a global police state to contain the explosive contradictions of a global capitalist system that is crisis-ridden and out of control.

The Making of Global Capitalism

The Making of Global Capitalism
Author: Leo Panitch
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2012-10-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1844677427

Download The Making of Global Capitalism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

No Marketing Blurb

Global Capitalism in Crisis

Global Capitalism in Crisis
Author: Murray E. G. Smith
Publisher: Brunswick Books
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2010
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781552663530

Download Global Capitalism in Crisis Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

"The world economy is currently experiencing a devastating slump not seen since the Second World War. Unemployment rates are skyrocketing and salaries are plummeting in the developed world, while astronomical food prices and starvation ravage the developing world. The crisis in global capitalism, Smith argues, should be understood as both a composite crisis of overproduction, credit and finance, and a deep-seated systemic crisis. Using Marx to analyze the origins, implications and scope of the current economic slump, this book argues that the crisis needs to be understood structurally, as the result of a system prone to crisis, rather than as an aberration."--Publisher's website.

Global Crisis

Global Crisis
Author: Geoffrey Parker
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 944
Release: 2013-03-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300189192

Download Global Crisis Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

The acclaimed historian demonstrates a link between climate change and social unrest across the globe during the mid-17th century. Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides, government collapses—the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were unprecedented in both frequency and severity. The effects of what historians call the "General Crisis" extended from England to Japan and from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas. In this meticulously researched volume, historian Geoffrey Parker presents the firsthand testimony of men and women who experienced the many political, economic, and social crises that occurred between 1618 to the late 1680s. He also incorporates the scientific evidence of climate change during this period into the narrative, offering a strikingly new understanding of the General Crisis. Changes in weather patterns, especially longer winters and cooler and wetter summers, disrupted growing seasons and destroyed harvests. This in turn brought hunger, malnutrition, and disease; and as material conditions worsened, wars, rebellions, and revolutions rocked the world.

Global Civil War

Global Civil War
Author: William I. Robinson
Publisher: PM Press
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2022-06-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1629639532

Download Global Civil War Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Following up on his earlier best-seller, The Global Police State, this exciting new study by critically-acclaimed scholar and activist William I. Robinson offers a big-picture contribution to understanding contemporary global society in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic. It puts forth an original and cutting-edge exposé of the radical transformation of global capitalism now underway, driven by new digital technologies and turbo-charged by the pandemic. It provides shocking data and analysis on the concentration of power and control in the hands of corporate conglomerates, tech giants, mega-banks, and the military-industrial complex. The book documents the extent of unprecedented global inequalities as the mass of humanity faces violent dispossession and uncertain survival. Enabled by digital applications, the ruling groups, unless they are pushed to change course by mass pressure from below, will turn to ratcheting up the global police state to contain the global revolt. If the book issues a dire warning against the emergence of a dystopic digitalized dictatorship it also finds great hope and inspiration in the burgeoning social movements of the poor and the dispossessed as humanity descends into global civil war. While deeply analytical and theoretically sophisticated, the study is written in such a style that it is eminently accessible to a wider public beyond the academy. While the work will satisfy scholars, it is destined to become a companion text to those struggling on the frontlines for global social justice and a more hopeful future.

The State–Capital Nexus in the Global Crisis

The State–Capital Nexus in the Global Crisis
Author: Bastiaan van Apeldoorn
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351540343

Download The State–Capital Nexus in the Global Crisis Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

In the wake of the outbreak of the global crisis in 2008, many observers expected the state to assume command over a faltering neoliberal finance-led model of capitalism. We now know that this expectation was by and large mistaken. There is indeed an ongoing re-calibration of the state-capital relations, but in many instances the state has become more actively and more deeply involved in extending the reach of markets rather than in constraining markets in the interests of an equitable response to the crisis. This volume offers both theoretical perspectives and empirical studies by a selection of leading Critical International Political Economy scholars on the question how and to what extent we are witnessing a return of the state and a transition towards a new phase of global capitalism. The chapters cover a wide array of topics: from the rise of China and other emerging economies of the Global South, the role of state-owned enterprises such as Sovereign Wealth Funds and National Oil Companies and global environmental politics, to the role of labour in Europe and US grand strategy / foreign policy making in the post-Cold War period. This book was published as a special issue of Globalizations.

Zombie Capitalism

Zombie Capitalism
Author: Chris Harman
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2010
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1608461041

Download Zombie Capitalism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

We've been told for years that the capitalist free market is a self-correcting perpetual growth machine in which sellers always find buyers, precluding any major crisis in the system. Then the credit crunch of August 2007 turned into the great crash of September–October 2008, leading one apologist for the system, Willem Buiter, to write of "the end of capitalism as we knew it." As the crisis unfolded, the world witnessed the way in which the runaway speculation of the "shadow" banking system wreaked havoc on world markets, leaving real human devastation in its wake. Faced with the financial crisis, some economic commentators began to talk of "zombie banks"–financial institutions that were in an "undead state" and incapable of fulfilling any positive function but a threat to everything else. What they do not realize is that twenty-first century capitalism as a whole is a zombie system, seemingly dead when it comes to achieving human goals.

Global Capitalism

Global Capitalism
Author: Hugo Radice
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2014-08-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317663225

Download Global Capitalism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

The essays in this volume were published across the 1984-2011 period, and range across a variety of topics and approaches to investigate the changing nature of global capitalism as a social order. As such, they are a valuable and instructive account of the evolution of global capitalism and of the debates which sought to make sense of this; moreover, they enable us to understand more clearly how capitalism may change and evolve in the coming years and decades. The introduction provides a brief historical account of how global capitalism has changed since the 1960s, before summarising each of the essays, situating them more immediately in the context in which they were written. After sketching the evolution of his views over the period, the author concludes by discussing some important dimensions of global capitalism that need further study. The twelve essays are presented in four sections, dealing with the overarching theme of globalisation; the case of Britain; the developing regions of the global South and the former Soviet bloc; and the crisis that has gripped global capitalism since 2008. Presenting an interdisciplinary approach that corresponds with the emergence of international political economy as a distinct field of scholarship, this book will prove to be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of international political economy, politics, economics, international relations, development studies, human geography, critical sociology and business studies.