Contemporary Capitalism and Its Crises

Social Structure of Accumulation Theory for the 21st Century
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-521-73580-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 374 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 609 g

This volume analyses contemporary capitalism and its crises based on a theory of capitalist evolution known as the social structure of accumulation (SSA) theory. It applies this theory to explain the severe financial and economic crisis that broke out in 2008 and the kind of changes required to resolve it. The editors and contributors make available new work within this school of thought on such issues as the rise and persistence of the 'neoliberal' or 'free-market' form of capitalism since 1980 and the growing globalization and financialization of the world economy. The collection includes analyses of the US economy as well as that of several parts of the developing world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mcdonough, Terrence

Reich, Michael

Kotz, David M.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftssysteme, Wirtschaftsstrukturen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction to the volume Terrence McDonough, Michael Reich and David Kotz; Part I. The Theory of Social Structures of Accumulation: 1. The state of the art of social structure of accumulation theory Terrence McDonough; 2. Social structure of accumulation theory Victor Lippit; 3. A reconceptualization of social structure of accumulation theory Martin H. Wolfson and David M. Kotz; Part II. Globalization and the Contemporary Social Structure of Accumulation: 4. Global neoliberalism and the contemporary social structure of accumulation David M. Kotz and Terrence McDonough; 5. Globalization of spatialization? The worldwide spatial restructuring of the labor process Michael Wallace and David Brady; 6. Financialization in the contemporary social structure of accumulation William K. Tabb; 7. Global neoliberalism and the possibility of transnational state structures Emlyn Nardone and Terrence McDonough; Part III. The Contemporary Social Structure of Accumulation in the United States: 8. Labor in the contemporary social structure of accumulation Sam Rosenberg; 9. The rise of CEO pay and the contemporary social structure of accumulation in the U.S. Robert Boyer; 10. Social structures of accumulation and the criminal justice system Susan M. Carlson, Michael D. Gillespie and Raymond J. Michalowski; Part IV. Social Structure of Accumulation Theory and Transformations of the Capitalist Periphery: 11. The social structure of accumulation in South Africa James Heintz; 12. Social structures of accumulation and the condition of the working class in Mexico Carlos Salas; 13. Social structures of accumulation for the Arab world: the economies of Egypt, Jordan and Kuwait in the regional system Karen Pfeifer.

Über Autor(innen)

Mcdonough, Terrence
Terrence McDonough is Professor of Economics at the School of Business and Economics, the National University of Ireland, Galway. He has also held teaching positions at Cornell University, Canisius College, Buffalo, and Dublin City University. Professor McDonough has authored articles in the areas of globalization, political economy, American and Irish economic history, public policy, the history of economic thought, and the philosophy of economics. He is the author, co-author, or co-editor of Was Ireland a Colony? Economics, Politics, Ideology and Culture in the Irish Nineteenth Century (2005), Mind Your Own Business: Economics at Work (with David Jacobson and Keith Warnock, 2001), Uninhabited Ireland: Tara, the M3, and Public Spaces in Galway (with Lionel Pilkington and Aine Ni Leime, 2009), and Social Structures of Accumulation: The Political Economy of Growth and Crisis (with Michael Reich and David M. Kotz, Cambridge University Press, 1994). His current research interests include globalization, American and Irish economic history, and political economy.

Reich, Michael
Michael Reich is Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at the University of California, Berkeley. He also co-chairs the Miguel Contreras Program in Labor Studies in the Office of the President of the University of California. Professor Reich has published numerous articles on labor market segmentation, racial inequality, the political economy of institutions in economic booms and crises, high-performance workplaces, living wages, and minimum wages. He is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of thirteen titles in labor, industrial relations, and economic studies, including Racial Inequality: A Political-Economic Analysis (1981), Segmented Work, Divided Workers: The Historical Transformation of Labor in the United States (1982), The Capitalist System (1986), the aforementioned Social Structures of Accumulation (1994), Work and Pay in the United States and Japan (1997), the two-volume Labor Market Segmentation and Labor Mobility (2008), and Labor in the Era of Globalization (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

Kotz, David M.
David M. Kotz is Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he has been on the faculty since 1978. He previously taught at the American University in Washington, DC. Professor Kotz's previous books include Russia's Path from Gorbachev to Putin (with Fred Weir, 2007), Revolution from Above: The Demise of the Soviet System (with Fred Weir, 1997), Bank Control of Large Corporations in the USA (1978), and the aforementioned title Social Structures of Accumulation: The Political Economy of Growth and Crisis (with Terrence McDonough and Michael Reich, 1994). He has also published in journals such as the Review of Radical Political Economics, the Monthly Review, and Science and Society. Professor Kotz is Vice President of the World Association for Political Economy, and his research interests include macroeconomics, institutional change in capitalist economies, and the economies of Russia and China.