1st Edition

The Political Economy of Emerging Markets Varieties of BRICS in the Age of Global Crises and Austerity

Edited By Richard Westra Copyright 2017
    224 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    238 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    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.