[lbo-talk] fiscal crisis update

[Alan Rudy]

Don't I wish.  Jim's intro to the second edition represents an auto-critique
and provides a quick-and-dirty assessment of the first 20 years after FCS
but I don't know of any substantive attempts to assess fiscal crisis after
neoliberalization/globalization.  When I had grad students read it in the
early 2000's, though, they were stunned at its ongoing utility... what
struck me at the time was a sense that the dynamics between primary,
secondary and tertiary sectors had shifted rather dramatically and that,
perhaps most importantly, the characteristics of social movements and their
relationship to the state was quite different.  FCS is clearly written in a
manner that more or less assumes that domestic conditions and politics
largely determines domestic policy and, on top of the other issues, I'm not
sure this still holds in the manner it did in 1974.

I found Max's book as a pdf on the web through EPI.  Did you know about
that, Max?

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> Any of you O'Connor fans - is there any text that would serve as an update
> to his Fiscal Crisis of The State? Much water has flowed under the bridge
> since then.
>
> Doug
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