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A Japanese approach to stages of capitalist development : what comes next? / Robert Albritton ; with Richard Westra.

Second edition / Robert Albritton with Richard Westra.

9783030990374 (electronic bk.)
3030990370 (electronic bk.)
9783030990367
3030990362

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.

©2022

English

1 online resource (xiii, 400 pages : illustrations (black and white)).

10.1007/978-3-030-99037-4 doi

HB501 .A52 2022eb

330.12/2

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 Albrittons 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 Robert Albritton is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at York University, Canada. Richard Westra is University Professor in the Institute for Political Science at University of Opole, Poland and Adjunct Professor in the Center for Macau Studies, University of Macau.

Previous edition: published as by Robert Albritton. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991.

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