Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-first CenturyIn the late eighteenth century, the political economist Adam Smith predicted an eventual equalization of power between the conquering West and the conquered non-West. Demonstrating Smith's continued relevance to understanding China's extraordinary rise, Arrighi examines the events that have brought it about, and the increasing dependence of US wealth and power on Chinese imports and purchases of US Treasury bonds. He traces how the recent US attempt to bring into existence the first truly global empire in world history was done in order to counter China's spectacular economic success of the 1990s, and how the US' disastrous failure in Iraq has made China the true winner of the US War on Terror. Smith's vision of a world market society based on greater equality among the world's civilizations is now more likely than at any time since "The Wealth of Nations" was published in 1776. In the 21st century, China may well become again the kind of non-capitalist market economy that Smith described, under totally different domestic and world-historical conditions |
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... interests of the first two orders ( or social classes , as we would call them today ) , argues Smith , tend to coincide with the general social interest because the real value of both rents and wages tends to rise with the economic ...
... interests of the first two orders ( or social classes , as we would call them today ) , argues Smith , tend to coincide with the general social interest because the real value of both rents and wages tends to rise with the economic ...
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... interest - by noticing that they refer to different functions and " stages " of national develop- ment . The first claim refers to the centralization of the legitimate use of violence over the territory of an existing or would - be ...
... interest - by noticing that they refer to different functions and " stages " of national develop- ment . The first claim refers to the centralization of the legitimate use of violence over the territory of an existing or would - be ...
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... interest . But , when we use the term leadership in an international context to designate the fact that a dominant state leads the system of states in a desired direction , the general interest cannot be defined in terms of an increase ...
... interest . But , when we use the term leadership in an international context to designate the fact that a dominant state leads the system of states in a desired direction , the general interest cannot be defined in terms of an increase ...
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Marx in Detroit Smith in Beijing | 23 |
The Historical Sociology of Adam Smith | 63 |
Marx Schumpeter and the Endless | 79 |
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