Does Capitalism Have A Future?
by Craig Calhoun /
2013 / English / EPUB, Mobipocket
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Does Capitalism Have a Future?, a global quintet of
distinguished scholars cut their way through to the question of
whether our capitalist system can survive in the medium run.
Despite the current gloom, conventional wisdom still assumes that
there is no real alternative to capitalism. The authors argue that
this generalization is a mistaken outgrowth of the optimistic
nineteenth-century claim that human history ascends through stages
to an enlightened equilibrium of liberal capitalism. All major
historical systems have broken down in the end, and in the modern
epoch several cataclysmic events-notably the French revolution,
World War I, and the collapse of the Soviet bloc-came to pass when
contemporary political elites failed to calculate the consequences
of the processes they presumed to govern. At present, none of our
governing elites and very few intellectuals can fathom a systemic
collapse in the coming decades. While the book's contributors
arrive at different conclusions, they are in constant dialogue with
one another, and they construct a relatively seamless-if
open-ended-whole.
, a global quintet of
distinguished scholars cut their way through to the question of
whether our capitalist system can survive in the medium run.
Despite the current gloom, conventional wisdom still assumes that
there is no real alternative to capitalism. The authors argue that
this generalization is a mistaken outgrowth of the optimistic
nineteenth-century claim that human history ascends through stages
to an enlightened equilibrium of liberal capitalism. All major
historical systems have broken down in the end, and in the modern
epoch several cataclysmic events-notably the French revolution,
World War I, and the collapse of the Soviet bloc-came to pass when
contemporary political elites failed to calculate the consequences
of the processes they presumed to govern. At present, none of our
governing elites and very few intellectuals can fathom a systemic
collapse in the coming decades. While the book's contributors
arrive at different conclusions, they are in constant dialogue with
one another, and they construct a relatively seamless-if
open-ended-whole.
Written by five of world's most respected scholars of global
historical trends, this ambitious book asks the most important of
questions: are we on the cusp of a radical world historical shift?
Written by five of world's most respected scholars of global
historical trends, this ambitious book asks the most important of
questions: are we on the cusp of a radical world historical shift?