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Capitalism in the Age of Globalization

The Management of Contemporary Society

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Capitalism in the Age of Globalization

The Management of Contemporary Society

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Samir Amin is one of the world's most profound thinkers about the changing nature of capitalism, North-South relations and issues of development. In this book, he provides us with a powerful understanding of the new and very different era which capitalism has now entered with the collapse of the Soviet model, the triumph of the market and accelerating globalization.

His sophisticated analysis brings within its ambit the increasingly differentiated regions of the South, the former Eastern bloc countries, as well as Western Europe. He also integrates his economic arguments about the nature of the crisis with political arguments based on his vision of human history not as simply determined by material realities, but as the product of social responses to those realities. His innovative analysis of the rise of ethnicity and fundamentalism as consequences of the failure of ruling classes in the South to alter the unequal terms of globalization is particularly compelling. And his deconstruction of the Bretton Woods institutions as the managerial mechanisms protecting the profitability of capital has profound implications for the likelihood of their being reformed in any meaningful way. Looking ahead, Amin rejects the apparent inevitability of globalization in its present polarising form, and instead asserts the need for each society to negotiate the terms of its inter-dependence with the rest of the global economy.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. The Future of Global Polarization
2. The Capitalist Economic Management of the Crisis of Contemporary Society
3. Reforming International Monetary Management of the Crisis
4. The Rise of Ethnicity: A Political Response to Economic Globalization
5. What are the Conditions for Relaunching Development in the South?
6. The Challenges posed by Economic Globalisation: The European Case
7. Ideology and Social Thought: The Intelligentsia and the Development Crisis

Product details

Published 15 Feb 1997
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 176
ISBN 9781856494687
Imprint Zed Books
Dimensions Not specified
Series Critique Influence Change
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Samir Amin

Samir Amin is Director of the Third World Forum in…

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