Business as Usual : : The Roots of the Global Financial Meltdown / / ed. by Craig Calhoun, Georgi Derluguian.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Arrighi, Giovanni,; Balakrishnan, Gopal,; Calhoun, Craig,; Castells, Manuel,; Chirot, Daniel,; Coronil, Fernando,; Derluguian, Georgi,; Fraser, Nancy,; Harvey, David,; Keyder, Caglar,; Silver, Beverly J.,; Wallerstein, Immanuel,
• HerausgeberIn: Calhoun, Craig,; Derluguian, Georgi,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Possible Futures ; 2
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Situates the current crisis in the historical trajectory of the capitalist world-system, showing how the crisis was made possible not only by neoliberal financial reforms but by a massive turn away from manufacturing things of value towards seeking profit from financial exchange and credit. Much more basic than the result of a few financial traders cheating the system, this is a potential historical turning point. In original essays, the contributors establish why the system was ripe for crisis of the past, and yet why this meltdown was different. The volume concludes by asking whether as deep as the crisis is, it may contain seeds of a new global economy, what role the US will play, and whether China or other countries will rise to global leadership.Contributors include: Immanuel Wallerstein, David Harvey, Saskia Sassen, James Kenneth Galbraith, Manuel Castells, Nancy Fraser, Rogers Brubaker, David Held, Mary Kaldor, Vadim Volkov, Giovanni Arrighi, Beverly Silver, and Fernando Coronil.The three volumes can purchased individually or as a set.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Acknowledgments -- Series Introduction: From the Current Crisis to Possible Futures -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The End of the Long Twentieth Century -- Chapter 2. Dynamics of (Unresolved) Global Crisis -- Chapter 3. The Enigma of Capital and the Crisis This Time -- Chapter 4. A Turning Point or Business as Usual? -- Chapter 5. Marketization, Social Protection, Emancipation: Toward a Neo-Polanyian Conception of Capitalist Crisis -- Chapter 6. Crisis, Underconsumption, and Social Policy -- Chapter 7. The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Toward a New Economic Culture? -- Chapter 8. The Convolution of Capitalism -- Chapter 9. The Future in Question: History and Utopia in Latin America (1989–2010) -- Notes -- About the Contributors -- Index