Capitalism

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The Economics of Feasible Socialism Revisited

Abstract: Part 1 The legacy of Marx: what did Marx mean by socialism? abundance, scarcity and the New Man the law of value under socialism a digression on Marxian economics Sancta Simplicitas the Ex Ante illusion quality and quantity division of labour material and moral incentives the proletariat and productive labour the legacy of Marx. Part 2 Socialism and the Soviet experience: externalities and "internalities" shortages and the sellers' market plan indicators and the evaluation of performance the "curse of scale", innovation and bureaucratic fragmentation is it planning? class structure, labour, wages and trade unions agriculture and the peasants investment decisions and criteria in theory and practice prices in theory and practice mathematical methods and programming growth and full employment foreign trade the cost of what is missing centralized planning and democratic socialism a short digression on "ideology". Part 3 Reform models - Hungary, Yugoslavia, Poland, China: some "revisionist" critiques the Hungarian reform Yugoslavia and workers' self-management private agriculture in Yugoslavia and Poland the Polish experience - the road to catastrophe China - leap forward, Cultural Revolution and reform. Part 4 Transition: from capitalism to socialism some thoughts on nationalism "developmental socialism". Part 5 Feasible socialism: some social-political assumptions enterprises, markets and competition prices, profits and the theory of value division of labour, income differentials and self-management investments and growth foreign trade the economic role of democratic politics is it socialism? Appendices: on contradiction two critiques a note on Utopia.

Environmental Crises and the Metabolic Rift in World-Historical Perspective:

Abstract: This article proposes a new theoretical framework to study the dialectic of capital and nature over the longue duree of world capitalism. The author proposes that today’s global ecological crisis has its roots in the transition to capitalism during the long sixteenth century. The emergence of capitalism marked not only a decisive shift in the arenas of politics, economy, and society, but a fundamental reorganization of world ecology, characterized by a “metabolic rift,” a progressively deepening rupture in the nutrient cycling between the country and the city. Building upon the historical political economy of Marx, Foster, Arrighi, and Wallerstein, the author proposes a new research agenda organized around the concept of systemic cycles of agro-ecological transformation. This agenda aims at discerning the ways in which capitalism’s relationship to nature developed discontinuously over time as recurrent ecological crises have formed a decisive moment of world capitalist crisis, forcing successive waves of restructuring over long historical time.

The Dead End of Matatheory@@@Powers of Theory: Capitalism, the State, and Democracy.

Abstract: Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: State and society in theoretical perspective 1. Theoretical perspectives as modes of inquiry Part I. The Pluralist Perspective: 2. State and society in pluralist perspective 3. The democratic state and consensus 4. The democratic state and participation 5. The pluralist perspective on the bureaucratic state 6. The pluralist perspective on the capitalist state Part II. The Managerial Perspective: 7. State and society in managerial perspective 8. The bureaucratic state and centralisation 9. The bureaucratic state and fragmentation 10. The managerial perspective on the capitalist state 11. The managerial perspective on the democratic state Part III. The Class Perspective: 12. State and society in class perspective 13. The capitalist state and accumulation 14. The capitalist state and class struggle 15. The class perspective on the democratic state 16. The class perspective on the bureaucratic state Part IV. Theory, Politics, and Contradictions in the State: 17. The powers of theory 18. The power of politics 19. The power of contradictions.

Capitalism and a New Social Order: The Republican Vision of the 1790s

Abstract: In 1800 the Jeffersonian Republicans, decisive victors over what they considered elitist Federalism, seized the potential for change in the new American nation. They infused in it their vision of a society of economically progressive, politically equal, and socially liberated individuals. This book examines the fusion of ideas and circumstances which made possible this triumph of America's first popular political movement. When the Federalists convened in New York to form the "more perfect union" promised by the new United Sates Constitution, they expected to build a strong central government led by the revolutionary members of the old colonial elite. This expectation was dashed by the emergence of a vigorous opposition led by Thomas Jefferson but manned by a new generation of popular politicians: interlopers, emigres, polemicists--what the Federalists called the "mushroom candidates." They turned the 1790s into an age of passion by raising basic questions about the characters of the American experiment in government. When the Federalists defenders of traditional European notions of order and authority came under attack, they sought to discredit the radical beliefs of the Jeffersonians. Although the ideas that fueled the Jeffersonian opposition came from several strains of liberal and libertarian thought, it was the specific prospect of an expanding commercial agricutlure that gave substance to their conviction that Americans might divorce themselves from the precepts of the past. Thus, capitalism figured prominently in the Jeffersonian social vision. Aroused by the Federalists' efforts to bind the nation's wealthy citizens to a strengthened central government, the Jeffersonians unified ordinary men in the southern and middle states, mobilizing on the national level the power of the popular vote. Their triumph in 1800 represented a new sectional alliance as well as a potent fusion of morality and materialism.

A Modern History of Hong Kong

Abstract: This major history of Hong Kong tells the remarkable story of how a cluster of remote fishing villages grew into an icon of capitalism. The story began in 1842 with the founding of the Crown Colony after the First Anglo-Chinese war - the original 'Opium War'. As premier power in Europe and an expansionist empire, Britain first created in Hong Kong a major naval station and the principal base to open the Celestial Chinese Empire to trade. Working in parallel with the locals, the British built it up to become a focus for investment in the region and an international centre with global shipping, banking and financial interests. Yet by far the most momentous change in the history of this prosperous, capitalist colony was its return in 1997 to 'Mother China', the most powerful Communist state in the world.