Aftermath: A New Global Economic Order? (Possible Futures)

Aftermath: A New Global Economic Order? (Possible Futures)

by Craig Calhoun (Editor), Georgi M . Derluguian (Editor)

Synopsis

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.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 296
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 25 Aug 2011

ISBN 10: 0814772846
ISBN 13: 9780814772843
Book Overview: Explores the repercussions and the possible economic futures following the global financial crisis

Media Reviews
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
Author Bio
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.