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Author: Anke Hassel
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2021-01-28
Total Pages: 481
ISBN-13: 0198866178
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book takes stock of the major economic challenges that advanced industrial democracies have faced since the early 1990s and the responses by governments to them.
Author: Pablo Beramendi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-04-23
Total Pages: 473
ISBN-13: 1316300757
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book serves as a sequel to two distinguished volumes on capitalism: Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism (Cambridge, 1999) and Order and Conflict in Contemporary Capitalism (1985). Both volumes took stock of major economic challenges advanced industrial democracies faced, as well as the ways political and economic elites dealt with them. However, during the last decades, the structural environment of advanced capitalist democracies has undergone profound changes: sweeping deindustrialization, tertiarization of the employment structure, and demographic developments. This book provides a synthetic view, allowing the reader to grasp the nature of these structural transformations and their consequences in terms of the politics of change, policy outputs, and outcomes. In contrast to functionalist and structuralist approaches, the book advocates and contributes to a 'return of electoral and coalitional politics' to political economy research.
Author: Mattias Vermeiren
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2021-02-11
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 1509537708
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpiralling inequality since the 1970s and the global financial crisis of 2008 have been the two most important challenges to democratic capitalism since the Great Depression. To understand the political economy of contemporary Europe and America we must, therefore, put inequality and crisis at the heart of the picture. In this innovative new textbook Mattias Vermeiren does just this, demonstrating that both the global financial crisis and the European sovereign debt crisis resulted from a mutually reinforcing but ultimately unsustainable relationship between countries with debt-led and export-led growth models, models fundamentally shaped by soaring income and wealth inequality. He traces the emergence of these two growth models by giving a comprehensive overview, deeply informed by the comparative and international political economy literature, of recent developments in the four key domains that have shaped the dynamics of crisis and inequality: macroeconomic policy, social policy, corporate governance and financial policy. He goes on to assess the prospects for the emergence of a more egalitarian and sustainable form of democratic capitalism. This fresh and insightful overview of contemporary Western capitalism will be essential reading for all students and scholars of international and comparative political economy.
Author: Richard Edwards
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 572
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Brenner
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2006-08-17
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9781859847305
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA commanding survey of the world economy from 1950 to the present, from the author of the acclaimed The Boom and the Bubble.
Author: Lynn Turgeon
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-07-24
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 1317419537
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, first published in 1980, is based on a series of lectures entitled "Theoretical Problems of American Political Economy" that Lynn Turgeon made during the fall of 1978 at Moscow State University. The Advanced Capitalist System: A Revisionist View will be of interest to students of politics and economics.
Author: Steven M. Buechler
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780195126037
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSociology and social movements are twin siblings of modernity that view the world as a social construction to be understood and transformed respectively. Based on this premise, Buechler argues for the centrality of social movements to the shape of the modern world as well as the discipline ofsociology. Building on a critical overview of current social movement theory, this book presents a structural model for analyzing social movements in advanced capitalism. This model provides a historically specific analysis that located movements in global, national, regional, and local structures.The heart of the book draws on diverse theoretical traditions within sociology (world system theory, critical theory, neo-Marxism, class/race/gender theories, theories of everyday life) to specify the structural constraints and opportunities that comprise the environment in which movements mobilizeand contest for power. Movement dynamics are explored in terms of their dialectical relationship with these multiple levels of structure. The book also addresses the recent shift and false dichotomies between political and cultural dimensions of social movements.This thoughtful introduction to the sociological study of social movements is an excelent supplementary text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in courses on collective action and social movements.
Author: Paul Mason
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2016-02-09
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0374235546
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Originally published in 2015 by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Random House, Great Britain"--Title page verso.
Author: Branko Milanovic
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2021-09-07
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0674260309
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor the first time in history, the globe is dominated by one economic system. Capitalism prevails because it delivers prosperity and meets desires for autonomy. But it also is unstable and morally defective. Surveying the varieties and futures of capitalism, Branko Milanovic offers creative solutions to improve a system that isn’t going anywhere.
Author: Torben Iversen
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-11-03
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 0691210217
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is a widespread view that democracy and the advanced nation-state are in crisis, weakened by globalization and undermined by global capitalism, in turn explaining rising inequality and mounting populism. This book, written by two of the world's leading political economists, argues this view is wrong: advanced democracies are resilient, and their enduring historical relationship with capitalism has been mutually beneficial. For all the chaos and upheaval over the past century--major wars, economic crises, massive social change, and technological revolutions--Torben Iversen and David Soskice show how democratic states continuously reinvent their economies through massive public investment in research and education, by imposing competitive product markets and cooperation in the workplace, and by securing macroeconomic discipline as the preconditions for innovation and the promotion of the advanced sectors of the economy. Critically, this investment has generated vast numbers of well-paying jobs for the middle classes and their children, focusing the aims of aspirational families, and in turn providing electoral support for parties. Gains at the top have also been shared with the middle (though not the bottom) through a large welfare state. Contrary to the prevailing wisdom on globalization, advanced capitalism is neither footloose nor unconstrained: it thrives under democracy precisely because it cannot subvert it. Populism, inequality, and poverty are indeed great scourges of our time, but these are failures of democracy and must be solved by democracy.
