POLITICAL ECONOMY AND GLOBAL CAPITALISM The 21st Century, Present and Future
Edited by Robert Albritton, Robert Jessop and Richard Westra
EDITORS Robert Jessop is Professor of Sociology at the University of Lancaster. Robert Albritton is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Political Science at York University. Richard Westra is Assistant Professor of the Division of International and Area Studies at Pukyong National University, South Korea.
A timely and unique collection in which esteemed authors explore the future of the global political economy. . An original and pertinent collection of essays from leading authorities on a topic of increasingly far-reaching import. . No other book currently available approaches this subject as comprehensively or from such a wide-range of viewpoints. . Ideal for upper level undergraduate and MA/PHD graduate students who are studying comparative and international political economy, political economy theory, sociology, political science, Marxist theory, globalization, neo-liberal economic change, Asian economic development, gender analysis, and socialism.
DESCRIPTION This volume brings together original and timely writings by internationally renowned scholars that reflect on the current trajectories of global capitalism and, in the light of these, consider likely, possible, or desirable futures. Essays focus to varying degrees on developing distinctive theoretical frameworks and using them to clarify both the history of the present political economy and how progressive political economic trends might be extended from the present into the future. A distinctive feature of the collection is its effort to develop new mediations between theory and history, a deeply problematic relationship in the social sciences. Contributions will contribute original perspectives both to theory construction and to the use of theory in historical analysis. In short, this volume offers theory-informed writing that contextualizes empirical research on current world-historic events and trends with an eye towards realizing a future of human, social and economic betterment. The participants in this volume hail from five different countries: Britain, Canada, South Africa, South Korea and the United States. Each is the author in their own right of major contributions to the development of critical political economy. Each world-renowned contributor either advances their scholarly enterprise and theorizations in original ways from that previously available only in specialized journals and lengthy monographs or introduces novel and groundbreaking arguments in debating the most prescient questions of our time across the pages of this important new book.
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POLITICAL ECONOMY AND GLOBAL CAPITALISM Contents List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Political Economy and Global Capitalism xiii Robert Albritton, Robert Jessop and Richard Westra
Part 1: Political Economy of the Present 1. Theorizing the Contemporary World: Robert Brenner, Giovanni Arrighi, David Harvey Moishe Postone 2. Technological Dynamism and the Normative Justification of Global Capitalism Tony Smith 3. Eating the Future: Capitalism Out of Joint Robert Albritton 4. What follows Neo-liberalism? The Deepening Contradictions of US Domination and the Struggle for a New Global Order Bob Jessop 5. Monetary Policy in the Neo-liberal Transition: A Political Economy Critique of Keynesianism, Monetarism and Inflation Targeting Alfredo Saad Filho
Part 2: Political Economy of a Progressive Global Future 6. Volatile, Uneven and Combined Capitalism Patrick Bond 7. The Erosion of Non-Capitalist Institutions and the Reproduction of Capitalism David M Kotz 8. The Transformative Moment Julie Matthaei and Barbara Brandt 9. Frontiers of Cadre Radicalization in Contemporary Capitalism Kees van der Pijl 10.Green Marxism and the Institutional Structure of a Global Socialist Future Richard Westra