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 West and the territories it had conquered. In this magisterial new work, Giovanni Arrighi shows how China’s extraordinary rise invites us to reassess radically the conventional reading of The Wealth of Nations. He examines how recent US attempts to create the first truly global empire were conceived to counter China’s spectacular economic success Now America’s disastrous failure in Iraq has made the People’s Republic of China the true winner in the US War on Terror. China may soon become again the kind of noncapitalist market economy that Smith described, an event that will reconfigure world trade and the global balance of power. |
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Contents
List of Figures | |
Marx in Detroit Smith in Beijing | |
The Historical Sociology of Adam Smith | |
Marx Schumpeter and the Endless Accumulation | |
The Economics of Global Turbulence | |
Social Dynamics of Global Turbulence | |
A Crisis of Hegemony | |
Domination without Hegemony | |
The Territorial Logic of Historical Capitalism | |
The World State that Never | |
The Challenge of Peaceful Ascent | |
Epilogue | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
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| Title | Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century |
| Author | Giovanni Arrighi |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Verso Books, 2009 |
| ISBN | 1789604273, 9781789604276 |
| Length | 432 pages |
| Subjects | › › Business & Economics / Economics / Theory Business & Economics / General History / Asia / China Political Science / Globalization Political Science / Political Economy |
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