Globalization and Justice

by NIELSEN, KAI

• ISBN13: 9781591020547
• ISBN10: 1591020549
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-06-01
• Publisher: Humanities Press

Summary

In the 1990s, as capitalism continued to expand its reach and influence, the term "globalisation" came to symbolise not only a more interconnected world, but the process by which a network of powerful financial institutions and multinational corporations gained increasing control over the world economy. For many in the industrialised West this process has seemed inevitable and fortuitous, the means of spreading prosperity and good fiscal practices across the globe. But for many others in the disadvantaged Third World globalisation appears to be a menacing spectre, the means by which already wealthy interests seek to aggrandise their power through hegemony while limiting further the economic, cultural, and social prospects of citizens in poor nations. Besides presenting evidence that capitalist globalisation is not achieving rising world-wide prosperity, Nielsen also shows the potential threat to democracy and the independence of nation states that globalisation poses.

Author Biography

Kai Nielsen is professor emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Calgary and adjunct professor of philosophy at Concordia University in Montreal.

Table of Contents

Preface	9	(2)
Introduction	11	(30)
1. The Crisis of Socialism and Analytical Marxism	41	(40)
2. Emancipatory Social Science and Social Critique	81	(36)
3. Analytical Marxism: A Form of Critical Theory	117	(22)
4. Radical Egalitarianism Revisited: On Going beyond the Difference Principle	139	(52)
5. Socialism and Egalitarian justice	191	(34)
6. Global Justice, Capitalism, and the Third World	225	(18)
7. Is Global Justice Impossible?	243	(38)
8. Global Justice, Power, and the Logic of Capitalism	281	(16)
9. Are Nation-States Obsolete? The Challenge of Globalization	297	(20)
10. The Democratic Deficit of Capitalist Globalism	317	(32)
Bibliography	349	(20)
Index	369