1st Edition

Growth and Development in the Global Political Economy Modes of Regulation and Social Structures of Accumulation

By Phillip O'Hara Copyright 2006
276 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages
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256 Pages
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Recent institutional changes have seen the increasing dominance of globalization and neoliberalism in the world economy. As markets have been deregulated, privatization and unproductive government spending have been promoted. Yet the greater volatility of capitals, the emergence of many financial crises, a decline in trust, and environmental problems have cast doubt on the effectiveness of... Read more

Figures  Tables  Forward   Preface Acknowledgements  1. Long Waves of Growth & Development in the Global Political Economy  2. Cultural Contradictions of Global Capitalism   3. A Global Neoliberal Social Structure of Accumulation?  4. A Transnational Corporate Social Structure of Accumulation?  5. A Global Money-Trade-Production Mode of Regulation?   6. A Global Unipolar, ‘Anti-Terrorist’ Social Structure of Accumulation?  7. A Regime of Accumulation for Sustainable Productivity and Demand?   8. A Financial Social Structure of Accumulation?  9. A Family-Community Social Structure of Accumulation?   10. Post-Neoliberal Governance for Sustainable Global Growth and Development   Index

Biography

Phillip Anthony O’Hara is Professor of Global Political Economy and Governance and Director of the Global Political Economy Research Unit, at Curtin University, Perth, Australia. He won the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy ‘2002 Gunnar Myrdal Prize’ for Marx, Veblen and Contemporary Institutional Political Economy (Elgar 2000); is the editor of Global Political Economy and the Wealth of Nations (Routledge, 2004) as well as the Encyclopedia of Political Economy (2001, Routledge, paper edition). He is the author of over 60 articles in scholarly journals and edited books, such as the Review of International Political Economy, Review of Radical Political Economics, Journal of Economic Issues, Review of Social Economy, and European Journal of the History of Economic Thought.