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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: ON SPECULATION -- 1 IMPERIAL RUBBER -- 2 HOMELAND FUTURITY -- 3 SPECULATION AND THE SPECULUM -- 4 THE CRUEL OPTIMISM OF THE ASIAN CENTURY -- 5 SALT FISH FUTURES -- Epilogue: SPECULATION AS DISCOURSE SPECULATION AS EXUBERANCE -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

After discussing the stagnation characteristic of mature capitalism, a few mechanisms designed to counter it, ie, technological advance & government spending, the rise of debt & financial speculation in response to stagnation is discussed. Charts. Adapted from the source document.

Case name: Vilbon v. Boston University, No. 15‐P‐190 (Mass. App. Ct. 03/21/16).

Argues that it is unlikely that capitalist renewal involving new phases of accumulation will emerge from what appears to be a protracted economic shake-out. It is far more likely that the coming era will resemble what classical political economists called a "stationary state" of civilization. It is contended that the capacity for sustainable growth is being hindered by the coming together of "a crisis conjunctural of accumulation with ongoing epochal shifts in world capitalism." Such dimensions of this dual crisis as its technological bases, demographic patterns, & the international division of labor are explored, along with possible forms of politics that could develop in the aftermath of neo-liberalism. A return to an earlier Keynesianism & the hope of a transition to green capitalism are both seen as unlikely & there are currently no large-sale movements demanding radical reforms. It is concluded that the world is experiencing a "period of inconclusive struggles between a weakened capitalism & dispersed agencies of opposition" that signal the beginning of a new kind of "worldlessness & drift.". Adapted from the source document.

THIS ARTICLE ARGUES THAT THE FINANCIAL CRISIS THAT ERUPTED IN ASIA IN JULY 1997 COULD HAVE BEEN PREVENTED. IT CONTENDS THAT ALTHOUGH ASIA'S CRONY CAPITALISTS MUST BEAR PART OF THE BLAME, THE CHIEF VILLAINS WERE WESTERN SPECULATIVE INVESTORS. THE ARTICLE CONCLUDES THAT, IN THE NEW CONDITIONS OF THE WITHDRAWAL OF WESTERN CAPITAL AND THE NEED FOR A "DOMESTIC ALTERNATIVE," THE FINAL PART OF THE STORY MAY STILL REMAIN TO BE WRITTEN BY THE PEOPLES OF EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIA.