Political Economy and Globalization

by: Richard Westra

Political Economy and Globalization
Author: Richard Westra

Publisher: Routledge

Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

List price: £ 70.00

Deastore.com price (info) € 82.43

Format: Hardback

Publication date: 10 September 2009

Availability: (info) 5 working days

ISBN: 0415470226 ISBN 13: 9780415470223

Political Economy and Globalization by Richard Westra

If there is one thing that both Left and Right sides of political economic debate over the world economic phenomenon of globalization agree upon it is that globalization reflects the increasingly unfettered spread of capitalism (the 'market') in the world. This book provides an analysis of capitalism's world historic phases of development. Top page

Complete description

If there is one thing that both Left and Right sides of political economic debate over the world economic phenomenon of globalization agree upon it is that globalization reflects the increasingly unfettered spread of capitalism (the 'market') throughout the world. This book provides an analysis of capitalism's world historic phases of development, a critique of the globalization literature and a re-examination of Marxian debates over the rise of capitalism. Top page

General info

Publisher & Imprint: Routledge

City: London

Pages: 272

More info: height 234 mm width 156 mm weight 552 gr

Top page

Age recommended: College/higher education

Subject Indexing & Classification Dewey: 337 Library of Congress Subject: Capitalism

Summary Political Economy and Globalization 1. Introduction: Political Economy and Globalization: 2. Specifying the Constant of Capitalism in the Theory of a Bourgeois Utopia: 3. Periodizing Capitalism and the World Historic Transmutability of Capital: 4. Globalization and the Retreat of Capital to the Interstices of the World: 5. Barbarism or Socialism in the World beyond Capital: 6. Conclusion Top page

Add your comment

Add a review - Highlight this book to a friend

Please login or register to send your review

Top page
More title of this author More books from the same department