Phases of Capitalist Development Booms, Crises and Globalizations

by Albritton, Robert; Itoh, Makoto; Westra, Richard; Zuege, Alan

• ISBN13: 9780333948385
• ISBN10: 0333948386
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-09-06
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

In this collection authors from eight different countries, representing a wide variety of academic disciplines and theoretical perspectives, investigate the differing phases of capitalist development. They offer diverse and powerful analyses of the postwar boom, economic crises, and globalization within this context.

Author Biography

Robert Albritton is Professor of Political Science, York University, Toronto. Makoto Itoh is Professor of Economics, Kokugakuin University, Tokyo.

Richard Westra is in the Department of Political Science, York University, Toronto.

Alan Zuege is in the Department of Political Science, York University, Toronto.

Table of Contents

International Relations and Capitalist Discipline--K.van der Pijl

The Fortunes of Capitalism: A Phase of Ex-Capitalist Transition--J.Bell & T.T.Sekine

Capitalist Development in World Historical Perspective--G.Arright & J.W.Moore

Class Struggle and the Global Overaccumulation of Capital--S.Clarke

The State, Globalization, and Phases of Capitalist Development--D.M.Kotz

Spiral Reversal of Capitalist Development: What Does it Imply for the Twenty-First Century?--M.Itoh

Capitalism in the Future Perfect Tense--R.Albritton

Periodizing Capitalism: Technology, Institutions, and Relations of Production--G.Duménil & D.Lévy

Space, Regulation, and the Capitalist Economy--S.Resnick

Has the Empire Struck Back?--A.Freeman

Imperialist Contradictions at the Threshold of the Third Millennium: A New Phase?--G.Carchedi

Periodizing Capitalism and Analysing Imperialism: Classical Marxism and Capitalist Evolution--A.Callinicos

Growth and Change in the World Economy Since 1950--J.J.Webber & D.L.Rigby

Globalize, Globalize, Global Lies: Myth of the World Economy in the 1990s--J.Weeks

What Follows Fordism? On the Periodization of Capitalism and its Regulation--B.Jessop