Dierckxsens,Wim

The limits of capitalism: an approach to globalization without neoliberalism/ Wim Dierckxsens - London: Zed Books, 2000. - x,170 p.


neoliberalism without a future
towards an alternative paradigm
Part 1 Efficiency versus the common good: the economy and the common good; productive and non-productive labour and the common good; reproduction and the concept of vitality; consumer society from the perspective of efficiency and vitality; vitality, efficiency and military expenditure
Part 2 Globalization and the casino economy: the socalled class war; the connection between money and productive labour; privatization of global financial management; the divorce between the real and the virtual economies; prospects for a return to productive labour
Part 3 Globalization
the origins of borderless private states: globalization
towards a no-growth economy; development of transborder private corporations in the triad; Latin America -private states and economic blocs
Part 4 Globalization
the creation of a world labour market: the welfare state and citizenship based on market relations; globalization of the labour market; the world economy, division of labour and citizenship; new goals for the global economy
an alternative perspective --
Part 5 Globalization -the origin of private states without citizens: the logic of capital in a no-growth economy; the subordination of social and labour issues to transnational interests; cycles of intervention and deregulation, and the historical role of the nation state; the limits of citizenship in the context of a capitalism without borders; the limits of capitalism without citizens; the stuggle for involvement at the expense of others versus the struggle for a society with room for everybody
future scenarios; the limits of geopolitics without citizens; worldwide recession and the necessary shift away from neoliberalism; toward worldwide regulation based on the global common good; globalization and world citizenry
a regulatory void
Part 6 Toward a citizen-based alternative: growing awareness of neoliberalism's limitations; in search.

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Capitalism

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