Capital and its discontents
Subtitle: conversations with radical thinkers in a time of tumult
By: edited by Sasha Lilley
Series: Spectre
Publisher: PM Press; Turnaround [distributor]
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oakland, Calif; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9781604863345
Subjects: Globalization; Imperialism; Economic history; Economic aspects; Right and left (Political science); Capitalism
Description: Examines capitalism, neoliberalism, and the world economy in the twenty-first century, collecting interviews with David Harvey, Ellen Meiksins Wood, Tariq Ali, Noam Chomsky, and other key thinkers and political economists who discuss various economic and ecological crises.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-267) and index.
Table of contents: title: Empire in the age of capital  -- Ellen Meiksins Wood; title: The rise of neoliberalism and the riddle of capital  -- David Harvey; title: Demystifying globalization  -- Leo Panitch and Doug Henwood; title: The global economic meltdown  -- David McNally; title: Capitalist crisis and radical renewal  -- Sam Grindin, Greg Albo, and Leo Panitch; title: The ecological dimensions of Marx's thought  -- John Bellamy Foster; title: The socio-ecological crises of capitalism  -- Jason W. Moore; title: The agrarian question and multiple paths of capitalist development in East Asia and South Africa  -- Gillian Hart; title: Labor and capital, gender and commodification  -- Ursula Huws; title: National capitalism in the Third World  -- Vivek Chibber; title: Isaac Deutscher and the Old Left  -- Mike Davis; title: Anti-imperialism and the New Left, revolt and retrenchment  -- Tariq Ali; title: Postmodernism and the politics of expression  -- John Sanbonmatsu; title: Anarchism, Council Communism, and life after capitalism  -- Noam Chomsky; title: Libertarian socialism for the twenty-first century -- Andrej Grubačić.