We often passed through Bismarck on family trips. I realize now embarassingly that I always assumed it was named after the ship.
But I really want to advertise our latest SSA book: Contemporary Capitalism and Its Crises Social Structure of Accumulation Theory for the 21st Century Edited by Terrence McDonough National University of Ireland, Galway Michael Reich University of California, Berkeley and David M. Kotz University of Massachusetts, Amherst 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 U.S. economy as well as that of several parts of the developing world. 'The 'Great Recession' of 2007-2009 caught most social scientists by surprise because they assumed that modern societies had eliminated deep economic crises. Fortunately, some dissenting scholars have continued to probe the regularities of economic cycles of booms and busts. This volume brings together some of the best of that work at a time when both scholars and policy makers urgently need to revise their core beliefs. It deserves a broad audience.' Fred Block, University of California at Davis Contents Introduction to the volume; Part I. The Theory of Social Structures of Accumulation: 1. The state of the art of social structure of accumulation theory; 2. Social structure of accumulation theory; 3. A reconceptualization of social structure of accumulation theory; Part II. Globalization and the Contemporary Social Structure of Accumulation: 4.Global neoliberalism and the contemporary social structure of accumulation; 5. Globalization of spatialization? The worldwide spatial restructuring of the labor process; 6. Financialization in the contemporary social structure of accumulation; 7. Global neoliberalism and the possibility of transnational state structures; Part III. The Contemporary Social Structure of Accumulation in the United States: 8. Labor in the contemporary social structure of accumulation; 9. The rise of CEO pay and the contemporary social structure of accumulation in the U.S.; 10. Social structures of accumulation and the criminal justice system; Part IV. Social Structure of Accumulation Theory and Transformations of the Capitalist Periphery: 11. The social structure of accumulation in South Africa; 12. Social structures of accumulation and the condition of the working class in Mexico; 13. Social structures of accumulation for the Arab world: the economies of Egypt, Jordan and Kuwait in the regional system. April 2010 376pp For more information please visit us at www.cambridge.org/9780521515160 20% discount with this flyer - order before 30th June 2010 20%
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