From Capitalism to Capitalisms
In: How China Became Capitalist, S. 153-203
In: How China Became Capitalist, S. 153-203
In: Interventions: international journal of postcolonial studies, Band 5, Heft 2, S. 271-289
ISSN: 1469-929X
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In: Global Viewpoints Ser
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Capitalism Around the World -- 1. In France and Germany, Anticapitalist Attitudes Are Widespread -- 2. Scandinavian Countries Practice a Superior Form of Capitalism -- 3. Popular Opinion in China Favors Capitalism -- 4. In Russia, So-Called Kremlin Capitalism Is Fascism, Not Capitalism -- 5. Africa Is Undergoing a Capitalist Revolution That Must Continue -- Periodical and Internet Sources Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Capitalism and the Global Financial Crisis -- 1. Unbridled Capitalism Is to Blame for the Worldwide Financial Crisis -- 2. Entrepreneurial Capitalism Is Not to Blame for the Worldwide Financial Crisis -- 3. Capitalism Worldwide Is Threatened by US Government Response to the Financial Crisis -- 4. The Crisis of Capitalism Requires That the United States Move Away from Consumerism -- 5. Australia Should Respond to the Financial Crisis by Rejecting Extreme Capitalism -- 6. The Impact of the Crisis on the Developing World Shows the Failure of Global Capitalism -- Periodical and Internet Sources Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Capitalism and Democracy -- 1. Capitalism Is Threatening Democracy Worldwide -- 2. In the United States and the United Kingdom, Democracy Threatens Capitalism -- 3. Capitalism Improves the Lives of Women More Than Democracy Does -- 4. In Many Countries, Capitalism Exists Without Democracy -- 5. In China, Capitalism Exists Without Political Democracy -- 6. In Latin America, Democratic Countries Are Rejecting Capitalism -- Periodical and Internet Sources Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Capitalism and Social Welfare Spending -- 1. Europe Should Not Abandon Its Social Model of Capitalism -- 2. In the United States, Social Insurance Balances the Harms of Capitalism
In: American Review of Political Economy: ARPE, Band 14, Heft 1
ISSN: 1551-1383
In the last decade significant changes in capitalism are appearing, it entered a new stage. After the political breakdown of Feudalism in World War 1 a stage of capitalism that aimed at integration of all parts of society was slowly developing. 15 years later the authoritarian regimes of national socialism, Fascism, intermitted the evolution of Integrated Capitalism. Since 1945 it flourished again, though its political governance on a global level in recent decades ran into more and more contradictions. After the deep economic crisis of 2008 a turning point towards authoritarian governance of capitalism – in particular in the USA – is evident. Since this type of new nationalist authoritarian capitalism destroys global integration it is called Disintegrating Capitalism. An immediate consequence of the global contradiction between worldwide interwoven production processes and rivalries between nationalist regimes is a rapidly rising danger of a third World War. The second, more speculative part of the paper explores possible forms, which this WW3 could take on. A conclusion provides some ideas on possibilities to react to war tensions.
In: Mirovaja ėkonomika i meždunarodnye otnošenija: MĖMO, Heft 7, S. 92-106
In October 2011, in the Center for Comparative Socio-Economic and Socio-Political Studies of IMEMO RAN the meeting of a scientific-theoretical workshop on the subject «"Alternative capitalism" or Alternative to Capitalism?» took place. Problems of conceptual crisis in social sciences and methodology of the modern socio-political changes analysis were in the spotlight. The discussion evolved over two main problems: 1. Knowledge crisis or development crisis? On methodology of the modern socio-political changes analysis and problems of a new social sciences research paradigm development. 2. Capitalism and modernization. Main ideas of presentations by scientists from IMEMO and other scientific institutions are outlined in two issues of the journal (No. 7, 8).
In: Political and Economic Systems v.1
In: Political and Economic Systems Ser. v.1
Capitalism is first and foremost an economic system that prizes free and competitive markets, private ownership, and a comparatively small role for government intervention and regulation. Yet capitalism also has many political undertones and has become associated with notions of freedom, individualism, self-determination, and anti-unionism. As a political and economic philosophy, it was a major player in the Cold War, squaring off against communism and seemingly triumphing. The colorful history of this economic system that doubles as a political philosophy is recounted here, from Medieval-era
In: Thesis eleven: critical theory and historical sociology, Band 161, Heft 1, S. 23-34
ISSN: 1461-7455, 0725-5136
Seventy years ago James Burnham (1905–1987) was a well-known American intellectual figure. Burnham's 1941 book The Managerial Revolution, a cause célèbre, provided some of the conceptual framework for George Orwell's 1984. Cornelius Castoriadis (1922–1997) at the time was an obscure Greek-French political intellectual, writer and small-group organizer. He co-founded the left-wing Socialisme ou Barbarie in Paris in 1949 while Burnham was already on a rightward intellectual trajectory. The two, though, shared certain traits. Both emerged from Trotskyist milieus as critics of bureaucratic collectivism. Both were anti-communists. Both were gifted writers and thinkers who were distinctly unorthodox in their approach, notably their scepticism about 20th-century managerial society and bureaucratic forms of capitalism. Then there were the divergences. At its inception in 1955 Burnham joined National Review, the principal organ of modern centre-right conservative opinion in the United States. Castoriadis became a leading figure of the French self-management left. Based on his Christian Gauss Seminar at Princeton, Burnham's 1964 book Suicide of the West offered the most potent intellectual critique of left-liberalism ever produced. In 'Proletariat and Organization 1' (1959), Castoriadis referred to Burnham's 'pseudoanalysis' of bureaucracy. Burnham was not a self-management advocate. As he abandoned Marxism his social philosophy drew on Vilfredo Pareto and other Machiavellian social theorists. The paper explores the affinities and the divergent political trajectories of two of the 20th century's most interesting anti-bureaucratic thinkers.
In: Comparative Sociology and Social Theory, S. 51-72
In: Cambridge elements. Elements in reinventing capitalism
The corporation was a timely emergent phenomenon of the capitalist system. Under entrepreneurial ownership with customer value creation goals, corporations introduced new products and services, new capital structures and new management processes capable of improving customer experiences in every facet of their lives. After entrepreneurship, the organizational model transitioned to managerial capitalism, and from there into command-and-control and central planning. Then came further transition into the era of financialization, where shareholder value replaced customer value as the purpose of the corporation. Managers diverted resources to their own enrichment as well as that of shareholders, at the expense of investment in future innovation. Capitalism's reputation has become tarnished and its purpose distorted. This Element ends with the promise of another emergent era, via the corporations of the digital age.
In: Capital & class, Band 23, Heft 2, S. 183-185
ISSN: 2041-0980
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In: C.M. Melenovsky (Ed.). (2022). The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, p. 267-275.
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In: Review of international political economy, Band 9, Heft 4, S. 619-649
ISSN: 1466-4526