Andrew Glyn – Capitalism Unleashed

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  • PDF:242 pages
  • Publisher:Oxford University Press; New Ed edition (5 July 2007)
  • Language:English
  • ISBN-10:0199226792
  • ISBN-13:978-0199226795

Description

Andrew Glyn – Capitalism Unleashed

Free enterprise is off the leash and chasing new alternatives for revenue making throughout the globe. After a turbulent century of unprecedented social and technological change, Capitalism has emerged because the dominant ideology and mannequin for financial progress within the richest, most developed nations. But solely thirty years in the past financial progress was faltering, inflation rising and the Left have been arguing for higher state intervention in business. How did this exceptional transformation occur? And what worth have we paid within the course of?

This accessible and persuasive ebook challenges the notion of our capitalist future. It supplies a transparent and concise historical past of the issues dealing with the economies of Europe, Japan and the US throughout the latter half of the 20 th century and questions whether or not capitalism has actually introduced the degrees of financial progress and prosperity that have been hoped for. Andrew Glyn then appears on the affect the quickly growing economies of China and the South are more likely to have on the older economies of the North. As the race is on to take care of progress and defend aggressive benefit, Glyn asks: is the ‘race-to-the bottom’ inevitable because the anti-globalisers predict, with welfare states being dismantled to satisfy aggressive calls for? Or is there an alternate mannequin which sees a powerful dedication to welfare provision as important to financial progress? Can we afford to not sort out inequality at residence in addition to overseas?

Review

Capitalism Unleashed is an excellent ebook that ought to be learn by everybody with a critical curiosity within the financial historical past of the previous three many years and who needs to grasp higher the financial points and dilemmas that may face us within the years forward. (Tim Lankester World Economics)

About the Author

Andrew Glyn tragically died of a mind tumour simply earlier than Christmas 2007. Andrew Glyn taught economics at Oxford University. He was an financial advisor to the National Union of Mineworkers, has been a advisor to the International Labour Organization and H.M. Treasury, and was an affiliate editor of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy. He co-authored a number of books on post-war capitalism, edited Social Democracy in Neoliberal Times (OUP 2001) and has written on unemployment, profitability and the historical past of financial thought in economics journals and on present financial issues and insurance policies in magazines and newspapers.

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