Samir Amin remains one of the world's most influential thinkers about
the changing nature of North-South relations in the development of
contemporary capitalism. In this highly prescient book, originally
published in 1997, he provides a powerful analysis of the new
unilateral capitalist era following the collapse of the Soviet model,
and the apparent triumph of the market and globalization. Amin's
innovative analysis charts the rise of ethnicity and fundamentalism as
consequences of the failure of ruling classes in the South to counter
the exploitative terms of globalization. This has had profound
implications and continues to resonate today. Furthermore, his
deconstruction of the Bretton Woods institutions as managerial
mechanisms which protect the profitability of capital provides an
important insight into the continued difficulties in reforming them.
Amin's rejection of the apparent inevitability of globalization in its
present polarising form is particularly prophetic - instead he asserts
the need for each society to negotiate the terms of its
inter-dependence with the rest of the global economy. A landmark work
by a key contemporary thinker.
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ISBN
9781780329857
Publisert
2017
Utgave
2. utgave
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Zed Books
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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