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Polarizing Development: Alternatives to Neoliberalism and the Crisis
Lucia Pradella (Ed.)
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Description for Polarizing Development: Alternatives to Neoliberalism and the Crisis
Paperback. A new generation of Marxian scholars discusses the modern age of development under neoliberalism in this collection of essays. Editor(s): Pradella, Lucia; Marois, Thomas. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JPF; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 151 x 231 x 15. Weight in Grams: 430.
The global economic crisis has exposed the limits of neoliberalism and dramatically deepened social polarization. Yet, despite increasing social resistance and opposition, neoliberalism prevails globally.
Radical alternatives, moreover, are only rarely debated. And if they are, such alternatives are reduced to new Keynesian and new developmental agendas, which fail to address existing class divisions and imperialist relations of domination.
This collection of essays polarizes the debate between radical and reformist alternatives by exploring head-on the antagonistic structure of capitalist development. The contributors ground their proposals in an international, non-Eurocentric and Marxian inspired analysis of capitalism and its crises. From Latin America to Asia, Africa to the Middle East and Europe to the US, social and labour movements have emerged as the protagonists behind creating alternatives.
This book's new generation of scholars has written accessible yet theoretically informed and empirically rich chapters elaborating radical worldwide strategies for moving beyond neoliberalism, and beyond capitalism. The intent is to provoke critical reflection and positive action towards substantive change.
Radical alternatives, moreover, are only rarely debated. And if they are, such alternatives are reduced to new Keynesian and new developmental agendas, which fail to address existing class divisions and imperialist relations of domination.
This collection of essays polarizes the debate between radical and reformist alternatives by exploring head-on the antagonistic structure of capitalist development. The contributors ground their proposals in an international, non-Eurocentric and Marxian inspired analysis of capitalism and its crises. From Latin America to Asia, Africa to the Middle East and Europe to the US, social and labour movements have emerged as the protagonists behind creating alternatives.
This book's new generation of scholars has written accessible yet theoretically informed and empirically rich chapters elaborating radical worldwide strategies for moving beyond neoliberalism, and beyond capitalism. The intent is to provoke critical reflection and positive action towards substantive change.
Product Details
Publisher
Pluto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
430g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745334691
SKU
V9780745334691
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About Lucia Pradella (Ed.)
Lucia Pradella works at the University of Venice, Ca' Foscari, and is a Research Associate in the SOAS Department of Development Studies. She is author of Polarizing Development: Alternatives to Neoliberalism and the Crisis (Pluto, 2014), Globalisation and the Critique of Political Economy (2014) and L'Attualità del 'Capitale' (2010). Thomas Marois is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London. He is the author of Polarizing Development: Alternatives to Neoliberalism and the Crisis (Pluto, 2014) and States, Banks and Crisis: Emerging Finance Capitalism in Mexico and Turkey (2012).
Reviews for Polarizing Development: Alternatives to Neoliberalism and the Crisis
'Not only rejects neoliberalism and its alleged alternative, new developmentalism, on theoretical grounds; it also provides real solutions as to how neoliberal capitalism should be challenged'
Professor Ben Fine, Department of Economics, SOAS; author of Marx's Capital and From Political Economy to Economics 'Essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the expressions of neoliberal domination and resistance across national spaces in global capitalism'
Susanne Soederberg, Professor of Global Political Economy at Queen’s University, Canada, author of Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry: Money, Discipline and the Surplus Population. 'A strong critique of false prophets and offer their own version of a people-centered society. The inspirations run from the indignation of the Global South to the indignados of southern Europe. From the depths of what appears to be hopelessness, Pradella and Marois have collected work that tries to rekindle hope'
Vijay Prashad, author of The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South 'Brings together authors who combine high academic qualification and critical thinking. It offers a broad, dense and comprehensive picture of the challenges that the supersession of neoliberalism forces us to face'
Ricardo Antunes, Professor in Sociology of Labour, State University of Campinas 'Not only rejects neoliberalism and its alleged alternative, new developmentalism, on theoretical grounds; it also provides real solutions as to how neoliberal capitalism should be challenged. A near-perfect 'post-crisis' guide to the [anti-neoliberal] movement'
Maciej Bancarzewski, International Socialism
Professor Ben Fine, Department of Economics, SOAS; author of Marx's Capital and From Political Economy to Economics 'Essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the expressions of neoliberal domination and resistance across national spaces in global capitalism'
Susanne Soederberg, Professor of Global Political Economy at Queen’s University, Canada, author of Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry: Money, Discipline and the Surplus Population. 'A strong critique of false prophets and offer their own version of a people-centered society. The inspirations run from the indignation of the Global South to the indignados of southern Europe. From the depths of what appears to be hopelessness, Pradella and Marois have collected work that tries to rekindle hope'
Vijay Prashad, author of The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South 'Brings together authors who combine high academic qualification and critical thinking. It offers a broad, dense and comprehensive picture of the challenges that the supersession of neoliberalism forces us to face'
Ricardo Antunes, Professor in Sociology of Labour, State University of Campinas 'Not only rejects neoliberalism and its alleged alternative, new developmentalism, on theoretical grounds; it also provides real solutions as to how neoliberal capitalism should be challenged. A near-perfect 'post-crisis' guide to the [anti-neoliberal] movement'
Maciej Bancarzewski, International Socialism