[lbo-talk] fiscal crisis update

Max Sawicky sawicky at verizon.net
Wed Mar 24 11:05:23 PDT 2010


Didn't think to look, since I remember being surprised it was on Amazon in the first place. I don't get any commissions or royalties, so feel free to download it or steal it.

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Alan Rudy <alan.rudy at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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