Amoral Elephant : Globalization and the Struggle for Social Justice in the Twenty-First Century

by Tabb, William K.

• ISBN13: 9781583670361
• ISBN10: 158367036X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: Monthly Review Pr

Summary

In what may well have been the largest popular protest in this country of the last twenty years, more than forty thousand demonstrators in Seattle effectively shut down a World Trade Organization (WTO) conference late last year. Against the backdrop of this historic event, William K. Tabb issues a comprehensive examination of the world capitalist system at the start of the twenty-first century disputing those who see globalization as the steamroller against which the most powerful nations are helpless. It is in fact the most powerful states that have created globalization.The Amoral Elephantexamines the implications of globalization, draws parallels to earlier stages of capitalist development to demonstrate the social burdens arising from the exploding financial markets. Tabb describes how international institutions, most importantly the International Monetary Fund and the WTO have focused on neoliberal goals to erode the welfare state and shift wealth from the poor to the rich.Tabb's reasoning is that if we better understand the world, we will be better prepared to engage in the struggle for progressive social change.

Author Biography

William K. Tabb is is professor of economics at Queens College and professor of political science at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

Table of Contents

Globalization and the Politics of the Twenty-First Century	7	(26)
Consolidating Markets: From Railroads to Virtual Highways	33	(18)
State Power in the New World Economy: From National Keynesianism to Neoliberalism	51	(28)
Globalization as the Imperialism of Finance	79	(20)
Miracles and Crises in the Southeast Asian Economies	99	(28)
Trade Wars, Overinvestment, and Concentration of Capital	127	(34)
Globalization and the Assault on U.S. Citizenship	161	(20)
Progressive Globalism: Challenging the Audacity of Capital	181	(30)
Notes	211	(6)
Index	217