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Capitalism in the Age of Globalization
Samir Amin
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Cover
About The Author
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acronyms
Foreword
Preface to the critique influence change edition
Introduction
1 The Future of Global Polarization
Unequal Development and the Historical Forms of Capitalism
The Present World System and the Five Monopolies of the Centre
An Alternative Humanist Project of Globalization
Obstacles to the Realization of this Project
Possible Future Scenarios and their Inadequacy
Renewing a Perspective of Global Socialism
2 The Capitalist Economic Management of the Crisis of Contemporary Society
The ‘Laws of History’: Capitalism Expansion Not Synonymous with Development
The Institutional Structure: The Bretton Woods Institutions
The IMF
The World Bank
GATT–WTO
Globalization: The Necessity of International Economic Management
Reforming Bretton Woods
3 Reforming International Monetary Management of the Crisis
Background
Flexible Exchange Rates are No Solution
Reform Proposals Emanating from the Mainstream
An Alternative Vision: Polycentric Regionalization
4 The Rise of Ethnicity: A Political Response to Economic Globalization
The Postwar Cycle (1945-90) and the New Globalization
The Disintegration of the State and the New Ethnic Ideologies in the Third World
Globalization and the Crisis of the Nationhood
The Current Management of the Crisis and its Alternatives
Further Thoughts on Universalism versus Particularism and the Socialist Response to Nationalism
5 What are the Conditions for Relaunching Development in the South?
Development off the Agenda
Contemporary Society is in Crisis, but there is Not Yet a Crisis of Capitalism
Solutions: Liberalism without Borders?
Nationalism
The Dangers of Anti-Democratic Regression: The Ethnic Assault, Religious Fundamentalism and Neo-Fascism
Reflections on a Counter-Project: Some Basic Propositions
6 The Challenges Posed by Globalization: The European Case
The Lack of Political Complimentarity in the Postwar European Economic Community Project
The EC’s Achievements: A Balance-Sheet
The Future of European Integration in the Age of Globalization
A Different Future: A Radical Vision for Europe
7 Ideology and Social Thought: The Intelligentsia and the Development Crisis
Social Theory and the Critique of Capitalism: Marxism, Postmodernism and the Social Movements
The Intelligentsia vis-à-vis Mental Operatives
Development: Contrasting Critiques
The Analyses and Strategies put forward by the Third World Intelligentsia
A New Agenda: Analysing the Diversity of the Third World and Reconstructing the Social Power of the Popular Classes
Index
Samir Amin
Capitalism in the Age of Globalization
