On Globalization : Capitalism in the 21st Century

by Bruno Amoroso

• ISBN13: 9780333930731
• ISBN10: 0333930738
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2001-05-04
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Attempts to explain the radical reshaping of the realtionship between the economy and society over the last 20 years struggled against the inadequacy of the traditional tools posited on market streamlining and flexibility. Bruno Amoroso reconstructs the pattern connecting community, human needs, modes of production, institutions and markets. In the light of the unsustainable costs of a globalization of the three-quarters of the planet, he proposes an alternative approach founded upon a polycentric system of cooperation and solidarity--the only one capable of transforming capitalism in the 21st century.

Author Biography

Bruno Amoroso is Jean Monnet, Professor in European Integration and Social Cohesion in the Wider Europe at Raskilde University in Denmark.

Table of Contents

Lists of Figures and Tables	vi
Acknowledgements	viii
Introduction	1	(6)
The Dynamics of Socio-Economic Formations	7	(26)
Internationalization and Capitalism: From Dualism to Marginalization	33	(17)
The World Economy and Capitalism: The Globalization of the Economy and Technology	50	(20)
Capital Accumulation in the Last Decade of the 20th Century - The End of Development	70	(14)
The Metamorphosis of the Firm: National, Multinational, Transnational	84	(20)
Globalization and European Integration: Eurocentrism and Westernization	104	(13)
Social Class and Political Power: Authors, Actors and Institutions	117	(13)
Alternative Policies to Globalization: A Polycentric View	130	(21)
Toward Mediterranean Co-Development	151	(49)
Bibliography	200	(7)
Index	207