Introduction -- The Before Times -- The Months Markets Melted -- One Nation Under Banks -- The Fed's Second Act -- The Temple is Under New Management -- A Polarized Fed -- March Madness -- A Corporate House of Cards -- The Day the Fed Changed -- Racing Across Red Lines -- Culture Wars and Capital -- Love Songs to Full Employment -- A Fed Restrained -- The Creeping Crises -- A Year of Uncomfortable Questions -- Epilogue.
PART I. 1. Patterns : the Maghrib in context --- 2. Urbanization in North Africa --- 3. The origins of Sale and Rabat: false and true beginnings --- 4. A city among cities ---- PART II. 5. Creeping colonialism --- 6. Rabat circa 1900: the pearl of Morocco --- 7. The origins of urban apartheid --- 8. Building the colonial edifice -- 9. All done according to the law --- 10. The failure of planning --- 11. Concretizing the caste city ---- PART III. 12. The crisis of decolonization --- 13. Rabat from caste to class --- 14. The factorial ecology of Rabat-Sale: methods and statistical results --- 15. The spatial organization of Rabat-Sale in 1971 --- 16. Planning the future.
The Role of the State and Industrial Relations', using a comparative approach (the European Union, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Japan, China, the United States, Brazil, South Africa and India), reconstructs the general framework of global industrial relations considering challenges and future prospects and proposing a new agenda for the state. The new era of industrial relations that has been stealthily changing the world of work in recent decades seems to have reached a stage where it can be systematically monitored and analyzed, in great part because the "creeping renationalization" that has been noted since the financial crisis of 2008 has reinvigorated state intervention in essential economic structures. In the globalized word, with the internationalization of the economy and increasing competitive pressures, industrial relations are developing in new directions. The contributions in this book provide important new perspectives on the many challenges inherent in the present and future of the relationship between industrial relations and the state
"Shifting States draws on a rich history of anthropological theorising on all kinds of states - from the pre- to the post- industrial - and explores topics as diverse as bureaucracy, infrastructure, surveillance, securitization and public health. As we enter the third decade of the twentieth-century, there is a growing sense that 'the state' is everywhere in crisis. Although the nature of this perceived crisis varies from place to place, it is everywhere seen to have been caused by some combination of the (inter-related) forces of 'globalisation', of successive economic shocks, and of the rise of social media-fuelled populist movements. Yet conversely, there is also a creeping perception that state power is becoming more pervasive in its reach, and in its effects, in ways which make it ever more imminent to the material worlds in which we live, more fundamental to the ways in which we conceive of the future, and more foundational to our very sense of self. How might we try to make sense of, and to mediate, these apparently contradictory impressions? Based on ethnographic case studies from all over the world, this timely volume forges new ways of thinking about how state power manifests, and is imagined, and about the effects it has on ordinary people's lives. In so doing, it provides tools not only for understanding states' responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, but also for judging what effects these responses are likely to have"--
Populists and the pandemic : how populists around the world responded to Covid-19 / Nils Ringe and Lucio Rennó -- The United States : Trump, populism, and the pandemic / Kenneth M. Roberts -- Mexico : a politically effective populist pandemic response / Nicolás de la Cerda and Cecilia Martinez-Gallardo -- Brazil : "we are all going to die one day" / Frederico Bertholini -- Argentina : Peronism and inclusionary populist adaptation to the pandemic / Germán Lodola and Luisina Perelmiter -- The United Kingdom : the pandemic and the tale of two populist parties / Tim Bale -- Spain : different populist responses with similar (and limited) outcomes / Carolina Plaza-Colodro and Nicolás Miranda Olivares -- Italy : the diverging strategies of the populist radical right during the pandemic / Lisa Zanotti and Carlos Meléndez -- Poland : when populists must manage crisis instead of performing it / Ben Stanley -- Hungary : creeping authoritarianism in the name of pandemic response / Agnes Batory -- Turkey : governing the unpredictable through market imperative / Evren Balta and Soli Özel -- Indonesia : from the pandemic crisis to democratic decline / Eunsook Jung -- India : the good, the bad, and the deadly consequences of India's pandemic response / Saloni Bhogale and Pavithra Suryanarayan -- The Philippines : penal populism and pandemic response / Paul D. Kenny and Ronald Holmes -- Russia : muddling through populism and the pandemic / Anton Shirikov, Valeriia Umanets and Yoshiko Herrera -- Nicaragua : populist performance and authoritarian practice during Covid-19 / Rachel A. Schwartz and Kai M. Thaler -- Venezuela : a populist legacy and authoritarian response / Caitlin Andrews-Lee -- Tanzania : narrating the eradication of Covid-19 / Dan Paget -- South Africa : from populist inertia to insurrection / Ryan Brunette and Benjamin Fogel -- France : balancing respectability and radicalization in a pandemic / Marta Lorimer and Ethan vanderWilden -- Germany : the Alternative for Germany in the Covid-19 pandemic / Marcel Lewandowsky, Christoph Leonhardt and Andreas Blätte -- Belgium : against the government and its parties, (not so much) with the people / Judith Sijstermans and Steven M. Van Hauwaert -- The Netherlands : divergent paths for the populist radical right / Sarah L. de Lange -- Conclusion / Nils Ringe, Lucio Rennó and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser.
History teaches us important lessons, provided we can discern its patterns. Multi-Polar Capitalism applies this insight to the crucial, yet often underappreciated issue of international monetary relations. When international monetary systems get first put into place successfully, such as the "classic" gold standard in 1879, Bretton Woods in 1945, or the dollar standard in 1982, they structure relations between the system's centre and the rest of the world so that others can catch up to the leader. But this growth-promoting constellation, a vector for accelerating globalization, runs its course eventually amidst mounting overproduction conditions in key sectors and spreading financial instability. Such periods of global crisis, from the Great Depression of the 1930s to stagflation in the 1970s and creeping deflation during much of the 2010s, force restructuring and policy reforms until conditions are ripe for a renewed phase of sustained expansion. We are facing such a turning point now. As we are moving from a US-dominated world economy towards a multi-polar configuration, we will also see the longstanding dollar standard give way to a multi-currency system. Three currency blocs rooted in the dollar, euro, and yuan will be dominated respectively by the United States, the European Union, and China, each a power centre representing a distinct variant of capitalism. Their complex mix of competition and cooperation necessitates new "rules of the game" promoting the shared pursuit of global public goods, in particular the impending zero-carbon transition, lest we allow fragmentation and conflict shape this next chapter of our history. Multi-Polar Capitalism adds to a century of research and debate on long waves,
