Suchergebnisse

Introduction: Economics and "the Economy" -- How Economics forgot Capitalism -- Economics Caught in a Physics Masquerade -- Rethinking Science and Social Science with Critical Realism -- Rethinking Marx and the Economic Science of Capital -- The Uno-Sekine Reconstruction of Capital: Microeconomics of Value, Macroeconomics of Crises -- Levels of Analysis in Marxian Political Economy -- Marxists and Marx's Unfinished Project in Capital -- Conclusion: Capital, Science and Political Economy in the Narrow and sense.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Introduction -- Social Democracy Déjà Vu -- The Social Democratic – Socialist Divide -- References -- Chapter 2 -- From Socialism as Idea to Twentieth Century Experiment -- From Utopian Socialism to Marx -- From Marx to Lenin and the Soviet Revolution -- Marxism and Socialist Construction in the Soviet Union -- The Contradictions and Demise of "Really Existing" Socialism -- References -- Chapter 3 -- Socialist Failure and Rethinking -- Not the Promised Land -- Capitalist Market vs. Socialist Plan Déjà Vu -- What Would Marx and Lenin Say Today? -- References -- Chapter 4 -- Socialists Confront a Changed World -- The "Free World" Economy from Beginning to End -- The Great Unraveling of the Golden Age -- The Unholy Birth of the Neoliberal Era -- The Neoliberal World Socialists Face -- References -- Chapter 5 -- Ecosocialism and New Democratic Designs -- Rethinking Marx's Argument for Socialism -- Science and the Anthropocene -- What Is to Be Done for a "Green" Socialist Future? -- Economic Principles for the Ecosocialist Future -- References -- Chapter 6 -- We Are All Socialists Now -- Pathways to the Future: Elections and Social Movements -- Pathways to the Future: Socialism Riding the New Technological Wave? -- Pathways to the Future: New Cooperative Forms as Beachheads to Socialism -- References -- Chapter 7 -- Conclusion -- About the Author -- Index -- Blank Page

Acknowledgements -- Preface -- It's not just the inequality stupid! -- Shylock unchained -- Shylock chained -- Troubles in capitalist paradise -- Merchants of Venice on Wall Street -- The final "pound of flesh

Exit from Globalization moves from theory to practice: from questions of where incorrigible knowledge of substantive economic life derives and how that knowledge is put towards making a progressive, redistributive, eco-sustainable future of human flourishing. Westra discards at the outset views that the root of current economic ills is the old devil we know, capitalism. Rather, he maintains the neoliberal decades spawned a "Merchant of Venice" economic excrescence bent upon expropriation and rent seeking which will scrape all the flesh from the bones of humanity if not stopped dead in its tracks. En route to providing a viable design for the human future in line with transformatory demands of socialists and Greens, Westra exorcizes both Soviet demons and ghosts of neoliberal ideologues past which lent support to the position that there is no alternative to "the market". Exit from Globalization shows in a clear and compelling fashion that while debates over the possibility of another, potentially socialist, world swirl around this or that grand society-wide scheme, the fact is that creative future directed thinking has at its disposal several economic principles that transformatory actors may choose from and combine in various ways to remake human economic life. The book concludes with an examination of the various social constituencies currently supporting radical change and explores the narrowing pathways to bring change about.

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.

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