This book examines developments in global capitalism over the last four decades. It develops an interdisciplinary argument about the global character of capitalism and provides a critical analysis of its developmental trajectory.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction Part 1. Globalisation 2. The national economy - a Keynesian myth? 3. Capital, labour and the state in the world economy 4. Responses to globalisation: a critique of progressive nationalism Part 2. Britain and the world economy 5. Keynes and the policy of practical protectionism 6. Britain in the world economy: national decline, capitalist success? 7. Britain and Europe: class, state and the politics of integration Part 3. Global capitalism and development 8. Capitalism restored: East-Central Europe in the light of globalisation 9. Halfway to paradise? Making sense of the semiperiphery 10. The developmental state under global neoliberalism Part 4. The recent crisis 11. Confronting the crisis: a class analysis 12. Cutting government deficits: economic science or class war? 13. The crisis and the global South: from development to capitalism
