Endgame
Economic Nationalism and Global Decline
Published on 15. July 2024
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-78914-914-2 (ISBN)
Description
Globalization as we know it is over. Industrial policies dismissed as obsolete for decades have been embraced by governments worldwide, geopolitical tensions are reminiscent of those at the height of the Cold War, and a resurgent far-right challenges the very foundations of contemporary democracy.
In this book Jamie Merchant examines the roots of this significant shift in the global landscape, reaching further back than the commonly blamed failures post-Cold War. Instead, reviewing the global economy over the entire previous century, he shows that the great political and economic changes of the last decade are due not to a failed ideology of globalization, but to the long-term decay of the modern, market-based economic order. Endgame offers a historical perspective on the period of globalization, illuminating the future path of the global economy and world politics.
In this book Jamie Merchant examines the roots of this significant shift in the global landscape, reaching further back than the commonly blamed failures post-Cold War. Instead, reviewing the global economy over the entire previous century, he shows that the great political and economic changes of the last decade are due not to a failed ideology of globalization, but to the long-term decay of the modern, market-based economic order. Endgame offers a historical perspective on the period of globalization, illuminating the future path of the global economy and world politics.
Reviews / Votes
A comprehensive, clear, and strikingly insightful overview of important trends of our day: resurgent economic nationalism, new forms of exploitation and imperialism, the mainstreaming of the far-right, the continuing failure to address ever-worsening environmental threats, a metastasizing shadow financial sphere, and so on. Merchant argues compellingly that these social pathologies are rooted in the stagnation of the global capitalist economy. A brilliant book. * Tony Smith, author of Technology and Capital in the Age of Lean Production and Beyond Liberal Egalitarianism * Jamie Merchant has given us an urgent and engaging history of the present, and it couldn't be more timely. And he lays his cards on the table as honestly and clearly as he tells us how we got here. There is so much we need to think about in Endgame, and all of it is worthwhile. * Geoff Mann, Distinguished SFU Professor of Political Economy, Simon Fraser University, and author of In the Long Run We Are All Dead: Keynesianism, Political Economy and Revolution and Disassembly Required: A Field Guide to Actually Existing Capitalism * A compelling analysis of -contemporary capitalism. * Socialist Worker * Extraordinarily timely. Its relevance seems to expand by the day. * Los Angeles Review of Books *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 219 mm
Width: 144 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
428 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78914-914-2 (9781789149142)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Jamie Merchant lives in Chicago. His writing has appeared in many publications including the Brooklyn Rail, The Baffler, The Nation and In These Times, and focuses on political economy and politics.
Content
Introduction
Chapter 1: Globalization and Its Double
Chapter 2: Undertow
Chapter 3: Eclipse
Chapter 4: The Money Theory of the State
Chapter 5: Endgame
Chapter 6: Becoming
References
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Globalization and Its Double
Chapter 2: Undertow
Chapter 3: Eclipse
Chapter 4: The Money Theory of the State
Chapter 5: Endgame
Chapter 6: Becoming
References
Acknowledgments