1st Edition

Capitalism in Crisis? The European Periphery and Emerging Economies

Edited By Alexandra Vasileva-Dienes Copyright 2021
132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

Worrisome recent economic downturns in Brazil, Russia and even China occurred against the backdrop of domestic issues pertaining to patrimonialism, corruption and informality. Some economies of the European periphery also suffered from similar domestic issues and plunged into recession due to economic crisis and austerity policies implemented in its wake. This book theorises and analyses the... Read more

Introduction: Conceptualising capitalism in the twenty-first century: the BRICs and the European periphery

Alexandra Vasileva-Dienes and Vivien A. Schmidt

1. Public-private coordination in large emerging economies: the case of Brazil, India and China

Christian May, Andreas Nölke and Tobias ten Brink

2. Crisis and austerity: the recent trajectory of capitalist development in Brazil

Renato Raul Boschi and Carlos Eduardo Santos Pinho

3. Theorizing Sino-capitalism: implications for the study of comparative capitalisms

Christopher A. McNally

4. Informality trap: a foundation of Russia’s statist-patrimonial capitalism

Alexandra Vasileva-Dienes

5. The state as a large-scale aggregator: statist neoliberalism and waste management in Portugal

Ana Maria Evans, Pedro Verga Matos and Vítor Santos

Biography

Alexandra Vasileva-Dienes is affiliated research fellow at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, where she did her PhD on Russian political economy in comparative BRICs context. She currently works on Russian and European foreign policy at the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundations's "Regional Office for Cooperation and Peace in Europe" based in Vienna, Austria.