Adam Smith in Beijing Lineages of the 21st Century

Name: Adam Smith in Beijing Lineages of the 21st Century
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ISBN: 9781844672981

ISBN-10: 1844672980

ISBN-13: 9781844672981

Edition: 2008

Authors: Giovanni Arrighi, Adam Smith

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Acclaimed exploration of China's emergence as the most dynamic center of current economic expansion. In the late eighteenth century, the political economist Adam Smith predicted an eventual equalization of power between the conquering West and the conquered non-West. Demonstrating Smith's continued relevance to understanding China's extraordinary rise, Arrighi examines the events that have brought it about, and the increasing dependence of US wealth and power on Chinese imports and purchases of US Treasury bonds. In the twenty-first century China may well become again the kind of non-capitalist market economy that Smith described, under totally different domestic and world-historical…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 1/5/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.08" wide x 9.25" long x 1.26" tall
Weight: 1.716
Language: English



List of Figures


Preface and Acknowledgments


Introduction



Adam Smith and the New Asian Age



Marx in Detroit, Smith in Beijing



The Historical Sociology of Adam Smith



Marx, Schumpeter, and the "Endless" Accumulation of Capital and Power



Tracking Global Turbulence



The Economics of Global Turbulence



Social Dynamics of Global Turbulence



A Crisis of Hegemony



Hegemony Unraveling



Domination without Hegemony



The Territorial Logic of Historical Capitalism



The World State that Never Was



Lineages of the New Asian Age



The Challenge of "Peaceful Ascent"



States, Markets, and Capitalism, East and West



Origins and Dynamic of the Chinese Ascent


Epilogue


Bibliography


Index