A Japanese approach to stages of capitalist development : what comes next?
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A Japanese approach to stages of capitalist development : what comes next?
(Palgrave insights into apocalypse economics)
Palgrave Macmillan, c2022
2nd ed
Available at 1 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-385) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book offers a novel treatment of one of the most important and long-standing research agendas in critical political economy: the theorizing of stages of capitalist development. Albritton advances the work of Japanese economist, Kozo Uno, to explore capital accumulation and its ideological, legal and political supports, not only in the stages of mercantilism, liberalism and imperialism, but also in the post-World War II capitalist stage of consumerism. The power of Albritton's adoption of this Japanese approach resides in the crisp clarity it achieves over the way stage theorizing of capitalism draws on both economic theory and historical analysis.
In the new, fully revised edition, written with Richard Westra, two new chapters are added. One meticulously examines the tendencies of capitalism euphemized as globalization and financialization which followed the crisis of the stage of consumerism. The other deals with current threats to civilization posed by burgeoning militarism, environmental destruction and climate apocalypse. The concluding chapter argues for the necessity of major social change to ensure a liveable future for humanity.
The book will be of interest to researchers and students of political economy and the history of economic thought, as well as a wider audience interested in the transformation and crises of capitalism.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Stages of Capitalism: From Start to Finish.- Chapter 2. The Theory of a Purely Capitalist Society.- Chapter 3. Stage Theory.- Chapter 4. Historical Analysis as a Level of Political Economy.- Chapter 5. The Stage of Mercantilism.- Chapter 6. The Stage of Liberalism.- Chapter 7. The Stage of Imperialism.- Chapter 8 (contributed to by Richard Westra) The Stage of Consumerism.- Chapter 9 (written by Richard Westra) Neoliberalism as a Phase of Transition Toward Barbarism.- Chapter 10. For Better Lives On A Better Earth: Bringing Capitalism to an End.- Chapter 11. Concluding Words for the Future.
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