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"William Robinson offers a concise, authoritative, and persuasive account of the ills, economic, ecological, and geopolitical, afflicting global capitalism, and shows that they are potentially fatal to both humankind and the system itself - compelling reading for anyone who wants to decipher the gathering storm clouds." ALEX CALLINICO, Professor of European Studies, King's College, London'Few scholars are better qualified than William I. Robinson to summarize the Marxist economic critique and to apply it to the current terminal crisis of the capitalist system.'KEES VAN DER PIJL, States of Emergency: Keeping the Global Population in Check "Every paragraph of Can Global Capitalism Endure? sizzles with insights. Here is William I. Robinson at his best: empirically sensitive, theoretically original, politically committed". JASON W. MOORE Global capitalism is facing an unprecedented crisis. The global economy is mired in prolonged stagnation. The worldwide social fabric is in decay. Civil strife and social upheaval are tearing up political systems and, in some cases, leading to the collapse of states. The planetary ecosystem is breaking down. Millions are fleeing, displaced by climate change, transnational corporate land grabs, wars and political persecution. How far into the future can global capitalism endure? In this urgent new study, sociologist William I. Robinson presents a "big picture" snapshot of the crisis of capitalism and the battle for the future of humanity. Drawing on 30 years of scholarship and activism, Robinson applies his original theory of global capitalism to the emerging digital age. He shows how global elites have pinned their hope on economic reactivation through the application of radical new digital technologies and financial strategies to the global economy and society. The rulers will turn to enhancing a global police state to contain mass rebellion as humanity enters a season of chaos and global civil war. The capitalist class and privileged strata of humanity may be able to survive collapse for decades to come even as a majority of humanity faces desperate struggles for survival that lead many to perish in the coming years. But there is eventually a terminal point to capitalist expansion as mass extinction and the radical alteration of the natural environment make life for our species and most others impossible. The only solution is a reversal of escalating inequalities through a radical redistribution of wealth and power."--Provided by publisher.

The period from 2008 into the third decade of the twenty-first century has been one long protracted crisis for global capitalism, as much structural as political, that has been aggravated by the coronavirus pandemic. The era of globalization has involved an ongoing radical transformation in the modalities of producing and appropriating sur­plus value. There is an extreme and still increasing concentration and centralization of capital on a global scale in the financial conglomerates that in turn act to interlock the entire mass of global capital. Now the system is undergoing a new round of restructuring and transformation based on a much more advanced digitalization of the entire global economy and society. The agents of global capitalism are attempting to purchase for the system a new lease on life through this digital restructuring and through reform that some among the global elite are advocating in the face of mass pressures from below. Beyond transnational policy coordination among states, the structural power that the transnational capitalist class is able to exercise from above over states will undermine reform unless there is a mass counter-mobilization of power from below. If some regu­latory or redistributive reform actually comes to pass, restructuring may, depending on the play of social and class forces, unleash a new round of productive expansion that at­tenuates the crisis. In the long run, however, it is difficult to see how global capitalism can continue to reproduce itself without a much more profound overhaul than is cu­rrently on the horizon, if not the outright overthrow of the system. ; The period from 2008 into the third decade of the twenty-first century has been one long protracted crisis for global capitalism, as much structural as political, that has been aggravated by the coronavirus pandemic. The era of globalization has involved an ongoing radical transformation in the modalities of producing and appropriating sur­plus value. There is an extreme and still increasing concentration and centralization of capital on a global scale in the financial conglomerates that in turn act to interlock the entire mass of global capital. Now the system is undergoing a new round of restructuring and transformation based on a much more advanced digitalization of the entire global economy and society. The agents of global capitalism are attempting to purchase for the system a new lease on life through this digital restructuring and through reform that some among the global elite are advocating in the face of mass pressures from below. Beyond transnational policy coordination among states, the structural power that the transnational capitalist class is able to exercise from above over states will undermine reform unless there is a mass counter-mobilization of power from below. If some regu­latory or redistributive reform actually comes to pass, restructuring may, depending on the play of social and class forces, unleash a new round of productive expansion that at­tenuates the crisis. In the long run, however, it is difficult to see how global capitalism can continue to reproduce itself without a much more profound overhaul than is cu­rrently on the horizon, if not the outright overthrow of the system.

The term 'capitalism' is no longer a relevant way in which to describe or to understand a modern economy. Ownership of capital is not the source of economic power that it once was. Business leaders of today do not own the factories and the machines, nor do they need to. Let us consider instead, markets. Not the markets for financial products that we see depicted on rows of flickering screens in Canary Wharf, but real markets. Market economies have proved to be chaotic, and imperfect and yet they are the most successful way we know to allocate goods and services. Through a process of experimentation, much failure and some success they evolve. Their development is necessarily uncertain, but that is also their greatest strength.

Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction: The Overseas Chinese as an Economic Culture -- The Spirit of Capitalism -- A Spirit of Chinese Capitalism? -- Chapter 2. The Sojourners -- Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore -- Indonesia -- The Philippines -- Malaysia -- Thailand -- The Nanyang -- Chapter 3. The Psycho-Social Legacy of China -- Fundamental Beliefs and Values -- Social Structures -- Relationship Rules -- Rules for Action -- Forms of Cognition -- Chapter 4. Seeing Oneself -- Nature of the Data -- Perceptions Surrounding the Self -- Chapter 5. Life in a Networked Society -- Chapter 6. The Institutional Legacy of China -- The Historical Progress of Chinese Business -- The Origins of Defensiveness and Insecurity -- The Anatomy of Paternalism -- The Endurance of Personalism -- Chapter 7. The Chinese Family Business -- The Environment of Business -- The Firm's Internal Structure -- Dilemmas of Growth and/or Stability -- Chapter 8. Society at Large -- Vertical Order -- Pragmatic Cooperation -- Chapter 9. Sources of Efficiency and of Failure -- Vertical Cooperation -- Horizontal Cooperation -- Control -- Adaptiveness -- Chapter 10. The Significance of the Overseas Chinese -- The Overseas Chinese and Western Business -- The Overseas Chinese and China -- Implications for Organization and Management Theory -- Economic Development and the Role of Culture -- Appendix. Methodology for the Study -- References -- Index.