Dynamics of Global Crisis (Monthly Review Press Classic Titles, 2)

Writing in 1982, four of the foremost theoreticians of the world economy set out their understanding of the long-term dynamics of global capitalism. Dismissing the still-existing Soviet Union as a "paper tiger", they focused instead on the contradictions of the capitalist world-economy and produced work that canvassed the key forces that have dominated the end of the twentieth and start of the twenty-first centuries. Examinations Of The World Economic, Political, And Social Problems Include Analyses Of The Expansion Of Capitalism, Decline Of The Power Of The United States, And The Development Of Socialism. Introduction: Common Premises ---- 1. Crisis As Transition / Immanuel Wallerstein --- 2. A Crisis Of Hegemony / Giovanni Arrighi --- 3. Crisis Of Ideology And Ideology Of Crisis / Andre Gunder Frank --- 4. Crisis, Nationalism, And Socialism / Samir Amin ---- Conclusion: A Friendly Debate. Samir Amin ... [et Al.] Includes Bibliographical References. Preeminent theoreticians of the world economy set out their understanding of the long-term dynamics of global capitalism.