Global Capitalism

Selected Essays

Hugo Radice

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9780415726405
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317663218
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: Globalisation
• Index: Economics

The essays in this volume were published across the 1984-2011 period, and range across a variety of topics and approaches to investigate the changing nature of global capitalism as a social order. As such, they are a valuable and instructive account of the evolution of global capitalism and of the debates which sought to make sense of this; moreover, they enable us to understand more clearly how capitalism may change and evolve in the coming years and decades.

The introduction provides a brief historical account of how global capitalism has changed since the 1960s, before summarising each of the essays, situating them more immediately in the context in which they were written. After sketching the evolution of his views over the period, the author concludes by discussing some important dimensions of global capitalism that need further study. The twelve essays are presented in four sections, dealing with the overarching theme of globalisation; the case of Britain; the developing regions of the global South and the former Soviet bloc; and the crisis that has gripped global capitalism since 2008.

Presenting an interdisciplinary approach that corresponds with the emergence of international political economy as a distinct field of scholarship, this book will prove to be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of international political economy, politics, economics, international relations, development studies, human geography, critical sociology and business studies.

RIPE Series in Global Political Economy

Series Editors: Jacqueline Best (University of Ottawa, Canada), Ian Bruff (Manchester University, UK), Paul Langley (Durham University, UK) and Anna Leander (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark).

Formerly edited by Leonard Seabrooke (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark), Randall Germain (Carleton University, Canada), Rorden Wilkinson (University of Manchester, UK), Otto Holman (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands), Marianne Marchand (Universidad de las Americas-Puebla, Mexico), Henk Overbeek (Free University, Amsterdam, Netherlands) and Marianne Franklin (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK).

The RIPE series editorial board are:

Mathias Albert (Bielefeld University, Germany), Mark Beeson (University of Birmingham, UK), A. Claire Cutler (University of Victoria, Canada), Marianne Franklin (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK), Randall Germain (Carleton University, Canada), Stephen Gill (York University, Canada), Jeffrey Hart (Indiana University, USA), Eric Helleiner (Trent University, Canada), Otto Holman (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands), Marianne H. Marchand (Universidad de las Americas-Puebla, Mexico), Craig N. Murphy (Wellesley College, USA), Robert O’Brien (McMaster University, Canada), Henk Overbeek (Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands), Anthony Payne (University of Sheffield, UK), V. Spike Peterson (University of Arizona, USA) and Rorden Wilkinson (University of Manchester, UK).

This series, published in association with the Review of International Political Economy, provides a forum for current and interdisciplinary debates in international political economy. The series aims to advance understanding of the key issues in the global political economy, and to present innovative analyses of emerging topics. The titles in the series focus on three broad themes:

• the structures, processes and actors of contemporary global transformations;
• the changing forms taken by governance, at scales from the local and everyday to the global and systemic; and
• the inseparability of economic from political, social and cultural questions, including resistance, dissent and social movements.

The RIPE Series in Global Political Economy aims to address the needs of students and teachers. Titles include:

Transnational Classes and International Relations

Kees van der Pijl

Globalization and Governance

Edited by Aseem Prakash and Jeffrey A. Hart

Nation-states and Money

The past, present and future of national currencies

Edited by Emily Gilbert and Eric Helleiner

Gender and Global Restructuring

Sightings, sites and resistances

Edited by Marianne H. Marchand and Anne Sisson Runyan

The Global Political Economy of Intellectual Property Rights

The new enclosures?

Christopher May

Global Political Economy

Contemporary theories

Edited by Ronen Palan

Ideologies of Globalization

Contending visions of a new world order

Mark Rupert

The Clash within Civilisations

Coming to terms with cultural conflicts

Dieter Senghaas

Capitalist Restructuring, Globalisation and the Third Way

Lessons from the Swedish model

J. Magnus Ryner

Transnational Capitalism and the Struggle over European Integration

Bastiaan van Apeldoorn

World Financial Orders

An historical international political economy

Paul Langley

Global Unions?

Theory and strategies of organized labour in the global political economy

Edited by Jeffrey Harrod and

Robert O’Brien

Political Economy of a Plural World

Critical reflections on power, morals and civilizations

Robert Cox with Michael Schechter

The Changing Politics of Finance in Korea and Thailand

From deregulation to debacle

Xiaoke Zhang

Anti-Immigrantism in Western Democracies

Statecraft, desire and the politics of exclusion

Roxanne Lynn Doty

The Political Economy of European Employment

European integration and the transnationalization of the (un)employment question Edited by Henk Overbeek

A Critical Rewriting of Global Political Economy

Integrating reproductive, produc...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Frontmatter 1
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of illustrations
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• List of abbreviations
• Introduction
• PART I Globalisation
• PART II Britain and the world economy
• PART III Global capitalism and development
• PART IV The recent crisis
• Bibliography
• Index