Aftermath: A New Global Economic Order?

by Craig Calhoun, Georgi Derluguian

Overview

The global financial crisis showed deep problems with mainstream economic predictions, as well as the vulnerability of the world's richest countries and the enormous potential of some poorer ones. China, India, Brazil, and other counties are growing faster than Europe or America and have weathered the crisis better. Is their growth due to following conventional economic guidelines or to strong state leadership and sometimes protectionism? These issues are basic to the question of which countries will grow in comind decades, as well as the likely conflicts over global trade policy, currency standards, and economic cooperation.

Contributors include: Ha-Joon Chang, Piotr Dutkiewicz, Alexis Habiyaremye, James K. Galbraith, Grzegorz Gorzelak, Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Manuel Montes, Vladimir Popov, Felice Noelle Rodriguez, Dani Rodrik, Saskia Sassen, Luc Soete, and R. Bin Wong.

Aftermath is the third part of a trilogy comprised of the first three books in the Possible Future series.

Volume 1: Business as Usual
Volume 2: The Deepening Crisis
Volume 3: Aftermath

The three volumes are linked by a common introduction and can be purchased individually or as a set.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814772850
Publisher:	New York University Press
Publication date:	11/21/2023
Series:	Possible Futures , #6
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	298
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Craig Calhoun is Director of the London School of Economics and Global Distinguished Professor of Sociology at New York University. His most recent book is The Roots of Radicalism: Tradition, the Public Sphere, and Early Nineteenth-Century Social Movements.
Georgi Derluguian is Associate Professor of International Studies and Sociology at Northwestern University and is the author of Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus: A World-System Biography.

Table of Contents

Introduction  Craig Calhoun and Georgi Derluguian1 A Savage Sorting of Winners and Losers, and Beyond  Saskia Sassen2 The 2008 World Financial Crisis and the Future of World Development  Ha-Joon Chang3 Growth after the Crisis  Dani Rodrik4 Structural Causes and Consequences of the 2008–2009 Financial Crisis  Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Felice Noelle Rodriguez5 Bridging the Gap: A New World Economic Order for Development?  Manuel Montes and Vladimir Popov6 Chinese Political Economy and the International Economy: Linking Global, Regional, and Domestic Possibilities R. Bin Wong7 The Global Financial Crisis and Africa’s “Immiserizing Wealth”  Alexis Habiyaremye and Luc Soete8 Central and Eastern Europe: Shapes of Transformation, Crisis, and the Possible Futures Piotr Dutkiewicz and Grzegorz Gorzelak9 The Post-Soviet Recoil to Periphery  Georgi Derluguian10 The Great Crisis and the Financial Sector: What We Might Have Learned  James K. Galbraith Notes  About the Contributors  Index 

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Few issues facing today’s world are as important as understanding the new global economic crises—in their unity and plurality. This penetrating collection of essays on the global economic crises of our times throws light into a dark tunnel and enables us to understand better the world we live in and how it needs to be transformed.”
-Seyla Benhabib,Another Cosmopolitanism

“Remarkable in its geographic reach and analytical reach, this book offers timely food for thought to social scientists and policy makers interested in explaining the relative success and decline of societies in the age of neoliberalism.”

-Michele Lamont,author of How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment

“Who won and who lost in the global economic crisis that has dominated the news in the last two years? Aftermath provides surprising and much-needed critical analyses of this question. Supposedly robust, rich democracies have floundered badly, while the growth rates of many developing nations — from Brazil to Turkey — have been impressive. Distinguished economists, sociologists, and political scientists take to this crucial task with insight based on new empirical investigations that should be read by anyone who wants to understand where we are headed in the future.”
-Katherine S. Newman,author of The Accordion Family: Globalization Reshapes the Private World

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Blanche Wiesen Cook

Remarkable in its geographic reach and analytical reach, this book offers timely food for thought to social scientists and policy makers interested in explaining the relative success and decline of societies in the age of neoliberalism.”-Michele Lamont,author of How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment

“Who won and who lost in the global economic crisis that has dominated the news in the last two years? Aftermath provides surprising and much-needed critical analyses of this question. Supposedly robust, rich democracies have floundered badly, while the growth rates of many developing nations — from Brazil to Turkey — have been impressive. Distinguished economists, sociologists, and political scientists take to this crucial task with insight based on new empirical investigations that should be read by anyone who wants to understand where we are headed in the future.”
-Katherine S. Newman,author of The Accordion Family: Globalization Reshapes the Private World

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