Bonfire Of Illusions

Author : Alex Callinicos
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 074565939X
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bonfire of Illusions written by Alex Callinicos and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something dramatic happened in the late summer and autumn of 2008. The post-Cold War world came to an abrupt end. This was the result of two conjoined crises. First, in its brief war with Georgia in August 2008, Russia asserted its military power to halt the expansion of NATO to its very borders. Secondly, on 15 September 2008 the Wall Street investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed. This precipitated a severe financial crash and helped to push the world economy into the worst slump since the 1930s. Both crises marked a severe setback for the global power of the United States, which had driven NATO expansion and forced through the liberalization of financial markets. More broadly they challenged the consensus that had reigned since the collapse of the Soviet bloc in 1989 that a US-orchestrated liberal capitalist order could offer the world peace and prosperity. Already badly damaged by the Iraq debacle, this consensus has now suffered potentially fatal blows. In Bonfire of Illusions Alex Callinicos explores these twin crises. He traces the credit crunch that developed in 2007-8 to a much more protracted crisis of overaccumulation and profitability that has gripped global capitalism since the late 1960s. He also confronts the interaction between economic and geopolitical events, highlighting the new assertiveness of nation-states and analysing the tense, complex relationship of interdependence and conflict that binds together the US and China. Finally, in response to the revelation that the market is not the solution to the world's problems, Callinicos reviews the prospects for alternatives to capitalism.

Author : Nisha Sharma
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781454955498
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Illusions of Fire written by Nisha Sharma and published by . This book was released on 2024-02-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ravi Palat
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113479097X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capitalist Restructuring and the Pacific Rim written by Ravi Palat and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-07-31 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book situates the evolution of capitalist economies along Asia's Pacific Rim after the Second World War within broader global, political and economic changes. Specifically, it charts their growth at the interface of periodic crises and successive waves of restructuring, and links changes in the world economy to shifts in regional dynamics in east and southeast Asia. It suggests that while the expansion of Japanese corporate networks was crucial to the emergence of the region as a low-cost exporter to the world, the reintegration of China into the world market will free the region from its dependence on the US as a market of last resort.

Author : Ali Ari
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031232577
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capitalism at a Crossroads written by Ali Ari and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-02-25 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the current capitalist system has been increasingly struggling to respond to the problems and uncertainties in the global economy, this book aims to identify the main economic, social, and ecological problems and discusses solutions for a more inclusive and sustainable economic system. Written by an international selection of contributors, it takes a wider perspective beyond classical orthodox economics. By doing so, this book covers a wide range of topics, such as global warming and climate change, food and energy scarcity, rising inequality and debt issues, health, ecological, economic, and political crises, degrowth, green new deals, solidarity, economy, artificial intelligence, technological change, smart solutions, and smart cities. Discussing these topics, the book presents answers to the question of whether the current capitalist system is viable and provides suggestions for a fair, inclusive, and modern economic system. Taking a comprehensive approach, the book will appeal to students, scholars, and researchers of heterodox and alternative economics.

Author : Meghnad Desai
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789609453
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marx's Revenge written by Meghnad Desai and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative and enthusiastically revisionist book, the distinguished economist Meghnad Desai argues that capitalism's recent efflorescence is something Karl Marx anticipated and indeed would, in a certain sense, have welcomed. Capitalism, as Marx understood it, would only reach its limits when it was no longer capable of progress. Desai argues that globalization, in bringing the possibility of open competition on world markets to producers in the Third World, has proved that capitalism is still capable of moving forwards. Marx's Revenge opens with a consideration of the ideas of Adam Smith and Hegel. It proceeds to look at the nuances in the work of Marx himself, and concludes with a survey of more recent economists who studied capitalism and attempted to unravel its secrets, including Joseph Schumpeter, John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek.

Author : V. Fouskas
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137273453
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greece, Financialization and the EU written by V. Fouskas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debt crisis in Greece has sparked lively debates about the origins of the crisis and policy measures to be adopted in order to fix it. The authors offer the first original and comprehensive narrative on Greece.

Author : Mary-Ann Tirone Smith
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780446518062
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Masters of Illusions written by Mary-Ann Tirone Smith and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 1994-06-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an historical novel based on the 1944 Barnum & Bailey's circus tent fire that killed hundreds, two survivors reexamine their lives and marriage while seeking the fire's true cause. By the author of The Port of Missing Men.

Author : Margie Fuston
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1665902108
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cruel Illusions written by Margie Fuston and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-11 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteen-year-old Ava Perry leaves the safety of her foster care home and joins a troupe of vampire-hunting magicians, believing that she finally has her chance to discover the truth behind her mother's death.

Author : Scott W. Fitzgerald
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739144030
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Corporations and Cultural Industries written by Scott W. Fitzgerald and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corporations and Cultural Industries: Time Warner, Bertelsmann, and News Corporation, by Scott Warren Fitzgerald, provides an introduction to the political economy of international media corporations. This text fills a fundamental gap in the critical media studies field, expanding on the relative paucity of academic studies. To ground the discussion, Fitzgerald focuses on the growth of three specific media conglomerates: Time Warner, Bertelsmann and News Corporation. Adopting an approach rooted in critical political economy, the book explains the corporations' growth through an engagement with broader social theories: the wider conditions of capital accumulation (especially theories of corporate competition and financialization); issues of institutional logic and corporate strategies; and the role of states as regulators, mediators of opposed interests, and facilitators of corporate expansion. The first section presents debates in social theory, addressing issues that pertain to cultural industries and dimensions in which they both challenge and extend these wider social theories. The second section presents detailed case studies of the three contemporary media 'mega companies' across the range of operations they coordinate, both within and outside the cultural industries. By analyzing the specifics and complexities of different media industries, Corporations and Cultural Industries examines how financialization processes re-gear the internal operations of media corporations in a manner that pits one sector against another. This book provides an in-depth study that can be used as stand-alone teaching resources or as a valuable supplement to a variety of media courses.

Author : John T. Littlejohn
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786474637
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rammstein on Fire written by John T. Littlejohn and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains 13 original essays exploring Rammstein's stage performance and recorded works from multiple academic perspectives. Topics range from Rammstein's connection with 19th century German literature and their East German heritage to cannibalism and the supernatural. The panoramic view of approaches to Rammstein's music and performance goes beneath the surface and provides fan and scholar alike with a deeper appreciation for the band.