Hartmut Elsenhans and a Critique of Capitalism Conversations on Theory and Policy Implications

by Wilcock, Neil; Scholz, Corina

• ISBN13: 9781137564634
• ISBN10: 1137564636
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-11-25
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Through a series of ten interviews with Hartmut Elsenhans, Neil Wilcock and Corina Scholz bring together Elsenhans' theories and thinking across his wide-ranging interests to present a compilation of his distilled thoughts. The accessible style of the interviews serves as a gateway to his complex theories and their policy implications providing a perfect introduction for both students and scholars new to his work.

Elsenhans' theories are first defined and explored, then applied to past and current issues. Whether discussing China as an archetypal leader in a global development model, how the crisis in the Eurozone is as much a question of a lack of internal demand in the core countries as it is a debt problem in the Southern countries, or why international NGOs are more akin to the Salvation Army rather than any real vehicle for development, what stands out are Elsenhans' challenging and thought-provoking ideas and the unusual places he finds solutions.

Author Biography

Neil Wilcock did an undergraduate degree in economics and international relations at the University of Aberdeen, UK and a master's degree on the Erasmus Mundus Global Studies programme hosted by the Global and European Studies Institute, University of Leipzig, Germany. His principal fields of interest lie in political economy and the European Union. Neil is originally from Glasgow in Scotland.

Corina Scholz is also a graduate of the Erasmus Mundus Global Studies programme. A German national, she first graduated at the University of Erfurt, Germany, in political sciences, economics and study of religion. Her main interests are development and international political economy.

Hartmut Elsenhans is a German political scientist and Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the University of Leipzig, Germany. His principle focuses are economic theory, development studies, national and social emancipator movements, and the European Union. He is currently working on a six volume series on his world economic theory.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Hartmut Elsenhans
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Rent
3. Marginality
4. Overcoming Underdevelopment
5. Convoy Model of Globalisation
6. Underconsumptionist Crisis
7. General Thoughts on Capitalism
8. Non-Governmental Organisations
9. Europe, the European Union and the Eurozone
10. Social Movements and New Cultural Identitarian Political Movements
11. Reflections on Career, Criticism and Miscellaneous