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The Political Economy of Emerging Markets Varieties of BRICS in the Age of Global Crises and Austerity
Rapid and sustained growth in the twenty-first-century global economy of large developing economies including Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, has captivated policy-makers and popular business press pundits alike. The coining of the new acronym BRICS and widespread adoption in international economics discourse of the designation "emerging markets" is symptomatic of that interest.
The Political Economy of Emerging Markets situates the BRICS phenomena in the global economic context of advanced economies continuing to languish in recession and hovering over a deflationary abyss several years after the meltdown. A key question this volume seeks to answer is whether the BRICS and so-called "emerging market" phenomenon is really the new miracle it is presented as, offering new or modified varieties of reloaded capitalist development to the world, or yet another mirage. Written by ten leading global experts, this book answers the tough questions over BRICS and emerging markets potentially realizing new varieties of reloaded capitalism. It is not only international and interdisciplinary but uniquely multiperspectival. Theories framing chapters are not of one genre, but generate theoretical debate at the frontier of knowledge in political economy along with nuanced empirical analysis which flows from it.
This book is of great importance to those who study political economy, development economics and international political economy.
PART ONE: Development Theory from Capital to Capitalist Development and the 21st Century Global Economy in Crisis
Chapter 1) From Development to BRICS: The Policy Magical Mystery Tour
Richard Westra
PART TWO: BRICS up Close
Chapter 2) Current Paths of Development in the Southern Cone: Deindustrialization and a Return
to the Agro-export Model
Paul Cooney
Chapter 3) A BRIC Despite Itself: Sustained Growth versus Neoliberalism in India
Radhika Desai
Chapter 4) Political Economy of China: From Socialism to Capitalism, and to Eco-Socialism?
Minqi Li
Chapter 5) The BRICS re-scramble Africa
Patrick Bond
PART THREE: Varieties of Emerging Markets in the Global Economy
Chapter 6) Capitalism, Contradiction and the onward march of Variegated Neoliberalism in
Southeast Asia
Toby Carroll
Chapter 7) Thailand: Sick Man of Asia?
Sompong Sirisoponsilp and Ake Tangsupvattana
Chapter 8) Turkey: A Conventional Peripheral Agent of Neoliberal Globalization
Yonca Özdemir
Chapter 9) The Persistence of Neoliberalism since the Arab Uprisings: The Cases of Egypt and
Tunisia
Angela Joya
Biography
Richard Westra is Designated Professor in the Graduate School of Law, Nagoya University, Japan. He is author or editor of 14 books. His work has been published in numerous international peer reviewed journals.