Title:
Adam Smith in Beijing : lineages of the twenty-first century
Author:
Arrighi, Giovanni.
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9781844671045
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Publication Information:
London ; New York : Verso, 2007.
Physical Description:
xiii, 418 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents:
Pt. 1. 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 -- Pt. 2. Tracking global turbulence -- The economics of global turbulence -- Social dynamics of global turbulence -- A crisis of hegemony -- Pt. 3. Hegemony unraveling -- Domination without Hegemony -- The territorial logic of historical capitalism -- The world state that never was -- Pt. 4. 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.
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