Globalization Decade : A Critical Reader

Leo Panitch; Colin Leys; Alan Zuege and Martijn Konings

ISBN 10: 8187879696 / ISBN 13: 9788187879695

Published by Aakar Books, New Delhi, 2006

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Contents 1. The globalization decade an introduction/Alan Zuege Martijn Konings Colin Leys and Leo Panitch. 2. Globalization and the state/Leo Panitch. 3. Capitalism and the nation state in the dog days of the twentieth century/Manfred Bienefeld. 4. In defence of capital controls/James Crotty and Gerald Epstein. 5. A world market of opportunities capitalist obstacles and left economic policy/Gregory Albo. 6. Taking globalization seriously/Hugo Radice. 7. Globalization and the executive committee reflections on the contemporary capitalist state/Constantine Tsoukalas. 8. Contradictions of shareholder capitalism downsizing jobs enlisting savings destabilizing families/Wally Seccombe. 9. Material world the myth of the weightless economy/Ursula Huws. 10. The nature and contradictions of neoliberalism/Gerard Dumenil and Dominique Levy. 11. The growth obsession/Elmar Altvater. 12. The American campaign for global sovereignty/Peter Gowan. Neoliberal globalization was finally consolidated in the 1990s. Understanding how it works and what it threatens for the future has become a crucial necessity not only in the improvised South but also in the affluent North. The pathbreaking analyses collected in this book written as the globalization decade unfolded grasp the radical nature of globalization in a way still unmatched by orthodox commentaries not as a mere series of reforms but as a worldwide transformation of all aspects of life to conform with capitalism's ruthless logic. Cutting across academic disciplines the essays bring out the inter connectedness of globalization's multiple facets The world market in capital and the ascendancy of a new financial order New geographic and sectoral patterns of production founded on fast changing technologies The changing patterns of class including the implication of workers in the destruction of their own jobs as their pension funds are reinvested The inequalities and socially catastrophic crises inherent in the neoliberal economic programme The transformation of states into active agents involved in managing the globalization process at home and internationally and The futility of third way responses as would be progressive alternatives. The Globalization Decade challenges conventional wisdom both right and left. It is not a blueprint for an alternative world order but it shows the principles on which viable alternatives must be based the restoration of democratic control over investment and a radically new respect for the limits of the environment. 327 pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Globalization Decade : A Critical Reader
• Publisher: Aakar Books, New Delhi
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8187879696
• ISBN 13: 9788187879695
• Binding: Hardbound
• Edition: New
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

Over the past decade the Socialist Register has been widely recognised as providing the most distinctive investigations on the left today of the contradictions of globalisation, the internationalisation of the state, progressive competitiveness, the new imperialism and popular global mobilisations against it. Among the well known writers whose essays have built the Register's reputation for this are Robert Cox, Harry Magdoff, Andrew Glyn, Bob Sutcliffe, Immanuel Wallerstein, Stephen Gill, Leo Panitch, Manfred Beinefeld, Gregory Albo, Arthur MacEwan, Frances Fox-Piven, Jim Crotty, Gerald Epstein, Elmar Altvater, Doug Henwood, David Harvey, Hugo Radice, Ursula Huws, Constantine Tsoukalas, Wally Seccombe, David Coates, Joachim Hirsch, Boris Kagarlitsky, Colin Leys, Henry Bernstein, Beverly Silver, Giovanni Arrighi, Gerard Dumenil, Naomi Klein, Birgid Mahnkopf and Brigitte Young. This anthology provides: - The most searching analyses of the political, economic and cultural contradictions of globalisation available - essential reading for students in troubled times - The best set of readings on the role of states - and especially the American state - in making globalisation happen, and on the problems they now confront in trying to keep it going.

Review

"The economic benefits of cross-border connectivity have long stood in sharp contrast with social disparities between rich and poor nations. New political alliances that arise from a united front among rich nations against global terrorism may well compound this gap... Not only does history tell us there is nothing inherently stable about globalisation, but it also highlights globalisation's tendency to sow the seeds of its own demise... The forces of globalisation which once seemed unstoppable are facing new resistance... The playing field may be tilting before our eyes." (Stephen Roach, Chief Economist, Morgan Stanley, in the Financial Times, September 28, 2001).