Adam Smith In Beijing Pa

by Arrighi,Giovanni

• ISBN13: 9781844672981
• ISBN10: 1844672980
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-05
• Publisher: VERSO

Summary

In the late eighteenth century, the political economist Adam Smith predicted the eventual equalization of power between the West and the territories it had conquered. In this magisterial new work, Giovanni Arrighi shows how China's extraordinary rise invites us to reassess radically the conventional reading of The Wealth of Nations. He examines how recent US attempts to create the first truly global empire were conceived to counter China's spectacular economic success. Now America's disastrous failure in Iraq has made the People's Republic of China the true winner in the US War on Terror.

Author Biography

Giovanni Arrighi is Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. ix
Preface and Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Adam Smith and the New Asian Age
Marx in Detroit, Smith in Beijing	p. 13
The Historical Sociology of Adam Smith	p. 40
Marx, Schumpeter, and the "Endless" Accumulation of Capital and Power	p. 69
Tracking Global Turbulence
The Economics of Global Turbulence	p. 99
Social Dynamics of Global Turbulence	p. 121
A Crisis of Hegemony	p. 149
Hegemony Unraveling
Domination without Hegemony	p. 175
The Territorial Logic of Historical Capitalism	p. 211
The World State that Never Was	p. 250
Lineages of the New Asian Age
The Challenge of "Peaceful Ascent"	p. 277
States, Markets, and Capitalism, East and West	p. 309
Origins and Dynamic of the Chinese Ascent	p. 351
Epilogue	p. 379
Bibliography	p. 390
Index	p. 409
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