Stress and Contradiction in Modern Capitalism
Title | Stress and Contradiction in Modern Capitalism PDF eBook |
Author | Leon N. Lindberg |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 450 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Capitalism |
ISBN |
Stress and Contradiction in Modern Capitalism
Title | Stress and Contradiction in Modern Capitalism PDF eBook |
Author | Council for European Studies |
Publisher | Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | 472 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN |
Stress and Contradiction in Modern Capitalism
Title | Stress and Contradiction in Modern Capitalism PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Stress and Contradiction in Modern Capitalism
Title | Stress and Contradiction in Modern Capitalism PDF eBook |
Author | Leon N. Lindberg |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 450 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Capitalism |
ISBN |
Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism
Title | Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism PDF eBook |
Author | David Harvey |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 354 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 019936026X |
"David Harvey examines the internal contradictions within the flow of capital that have precipitated recent crises. While the contradictions have made capitalism flexible and resilient, they also contain the seeds of systemic catastrophe"--
Claus Offe and the Critical Theory of the Capitalist State
Title | Claus Offe and the Critical Theory of the Capitalist State PDF eBook |
Author | Jens Borchert |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 157 |
Release | 2016-04-28 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1317500091 |
Back in 1972, German political sociologist Claus Offe published a book on the Structural Problems of Late Capitalism which, for almost two decades, inspired and stimulated an international and transdisciplinary debate on the role of the state in contemporary capitalism. An academic debate which, paradoxically, began to wane as the issues about which Offe had been writing became even more prominent: the "Contradictions of the Welfare State" (the title of a collection of Offe’s main contributions to the debate published in English in 1984) and democratic capitalism’s reality of the permanent "crises of crisis management". Since 2008, it has again become a widely shared diagnosis that advanced capitalism is in crisis. However, there is either scholarly disagreement or (more often so) mere perplexity when it comes to understanding this crisis and to explaining the prevalent patterns in dealing with it. In this volume, Jens Borchert and Stephan Lessenich critically combine a reconstruction Claus Offe’s approach to state theory with an analysis of the current constellation of democratic capitalism based on that same theory. In doing so, they expertly argue that his relational approach to state theory is much better equipped analytically to grasp the contradictory dynamics of the financial crisis and its political regulation than competing contributions. This is why systematically revisiting the theory of "late capitalism" is not only of a historical concern, but constitutes an essential contribution to a political sociology of our time.
Recent Marxian Theory
Title | Recent Marxian Theory PDF eBook |
Author | John F. Sitton |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | 376 |
Release | 1996-07-03 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1438420218 |
This book brings together some of the more prominent recent analyses within the Marxian tradition that bear on the topics of class formation and social conflict in contemporary capitalism. After examining debates over historical agency, class structure, and electoral dynamics, it explores the provocative arguments of analytical Marxists, Claus Offe, Jürgen Habermas, and Immanuel Wallerstein. In light of these discussions, the author concludes that even if the variety of forces contemporary capitalism structurally generates do not promote the formation of a revolutionary "proletariat," class relations continue to be important for analyzing the historical trajectory of, and challenges to, capitalism—although not in the way that Marx imagined.