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Wallerstein, Immanuel Maurice, 1930-
Subjects
Capitalism.
Middle class.
Technological innovations -- Forecasting.
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Does capitalism have...
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Does capitalism have a future? / by Immanuel Wallerstein, Randall Collins, Michael Mann, Georgi Derluguian and Craig Calhoun.
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Wallerstein, Immanuel Maurice, 1930-
New York : Oxford University Press, c2013.
Subjects
Capitalism.
Middle class.
Technological innovations -- Forecasting.
ISBN:
9780199330843 (hardback)
0199330840 (hardback)
9780199330850 (paperback) :
0199330859 (paperback)
Description:
192 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
Collective introduction: "The next big turn" -- "Structural crisis, or why capitalists may no longer find capitalism rewarding" / Immanuel Wallerstein -- "The end of middle-class work: no more escapes" / Randall Collins -- "The end may be nigh, but for whom?" / Michael Mann -- "What communism was" / Georgi Derluguian -- "What threatens capitalism now?" / Craig Calhoun -- Collective conclusion: getting real".
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"A quintet of globally eminent scholars - Immanuel Wallerstein, Randall Collins, Michael Mann, Georgi Derluguian, and Craig Calhoun - survey the current global landscape and cut their way through to the most crucial issue of all: whether our capitalist system can survive in the medium run. Despite all its current gloom, conventional wisdom still assumes that capitalism cannot break down permanently because there is no alternative. The authors shatter this assumption,and while all of the contributors arrive at different conclusions, they are in constant dialogue with one another and therefore able to construct a relatively seamless--if open-ended--whole"--
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