Dunn - The Political Economy of Global Capitalism and Crisis

The book provides a theoretically and historically informed analysis of the global economic crisis.

It makes original contributions to theories of value, of crisis and of the state and uses these to develop a rich empirical study of the changing character of capitalism in the twentieth century and beyond. It defends, uses and develops Marxist theory while arguing particularly against jumping too quickly from abstract concepts to a concrete understanding of the crisis. Instead, it uses what Marx described in his notebooks as an obvious analytical ordering to progress from a general analysis of economy and society to a discussion of recent economic transformations and the specifics of the crisis and its aftermath. Dunn argues that appropriately reconceived, a critical Marxism can incorporate and enrich rather than rejecting insights from other traditions. He disputes general characterizations of capitalism to the crisis and theories which see finance and the contemporary financial crises as largely detached from other aspects of the economy and society.

Providing a thoroughly socialized and historically based account, this book will be vital reading for students and scholars of political economy, international political economy, Marxism, sociology, geography and development studies.

Bill Dunn is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney, Australia.

RIPE series in Global Political Economy

Series Editors: Jacqueline Best (University of Ottawa, Canada), Ian Bruff (Manchester University, UK), Paul Langley (Durham University, UK) and Anna Leander (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark).

Formerly edited by Leonard Seabrooke (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark), Randall Germain (Carleton University, Canada), Rorden Wilkinson (University of Manchester, UK), Otto Holman (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands), Marianne Marchand (Universidad de las Amricas-Puebla, Mexico), Henk Overbeek (Free University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands) and Marianne Franklin (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK).

The RIPE series editorial board are:

Mathias Albert (Bielefeld University, Germany), Mark Beeson (University of Birmingham, UK), A. Claire Cutler (University of Victoria, Canada), Marianne Franklin (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK), Randall Germain (Carleton University, Canada) Stephen Gill (York University, Canada), Jeffrey Hart (Indiana University, USA), Eric Helleiner (Trent University, Canada), Otto Holman (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands), Marianne H. Marchand (Universidad de las Amricas-Puebla, Mexico), Craig N. Murphy (Wellesley College, USA), Robert OBrien (McMaster University, Canada), Henk Overbeek (Vrije Universiteit, the Netherlands), Anthony Payne (University of Sheffield, UK), V. Spike Peterson (University of Arizona, USA) and Rorden Wilkinson (University of Manchester, UK).

This series, published in association with the Review of International Political Economy, provides a forum for current and interdisciplinary debates in international political economy. The series aims to advance understanding of the key issues in the global political economy, and to present innovative analyses of emerging topics.

The titles in the series focus on three broad themes:

the structures, processes and actors of contemporary global transformations

the changing forms taken by governance, at scales from the local and everyday to the global and systemic

the inseparability of economic from political, social and cultural questions, including resistance, dissent and social movements.

The RIPE Series in Global Political Economy aims to address the needs of students and teachers. Titles include:

Transnational Classes and International Relations
Kees van der Pijl

Globalization and Governance
Edited by Aseem Prakash and Jeffrey A. Hart

Nation-States and Money
The past, present and future of national currencies
Edited by Emily Gilbert and Eric Helleiner

Gender and Global Restructuring
Sightings, sites and resistances
Edited by Marianne H. Marchand and Anne Sisson Runyan

The Global Political Economy of Intellectual Property Rights
The new enclosures?
Christopher May

Global Political Economy
Contemporary theories
Edited by Ronen Palan

Ideologies of Globalization
Contending visions of a new world order
Mark Rupert

The Clash within Civilisations
Coming to terms with cultural conflicts
Dieter Senghaas

Capitalist Restructuring, Globalisation and the Third Way
Lessons from the Swedish model
J. Magnus Ryner

Transnational Capitalism and the Struggle over European Integration
Bastiaan van Apeldoorn

World Financial Orders
An historical international political economy
Paul Langley

Global Unions?
Theory and strategies of organized labour in the global political economy
Edited by Jeffrey Harrod and Robert OBrien

Political Economy of a Plural World
Critical reflections on power, morals and civilizations
Robert Cox with Michael Schechter

The Changing Politics of Finance in Korea and Thailand
From deregulation to debacle
Xiaoke Zhang

Anti-Immigrantism in Western Democracies
Statecraft, desire and the politics of exclusion
Roxanne Lynn Doty

The Political Economy of European Employment
European integration and the transnationalization of the (un)employment question
Edited by Henk Overbeek

A Critical Rewriting of Global Political Economy
Integrating reproductive, productive and virtual economies
V. Spike Peterson

International Trade and Developing Countries
Bargaining coalitions in the GATT and WTO
Amrita Narlikar

Rethinking Global Political Economy
Emerging issues, unfolding odysseys
Edited by Mary Ann Ttreault, Robert A. Denemark, Kenneth P.Thomas and Kurt Burch

Global Institutions and Development
Framing the world?
Edited by Morten Bs and Desmond McNeill

Contesting Globalization
Space and place in the world economy
Andr C. Drainville

The Southern Cone Model
The political economy of regional capitalist development in Latin America
Nicola Phillips

The Idea of Global Civil Society
Politics and ethics of a globalizing era
Edited by Randall D. Germain and Michael Kenny

Global Institutions, Marginalization, and Development
Craig N. Murphy

Governing Financial Globalization
International political economy and multi-level governance
Edited by Andrew Baker, David Hudson and Richard Woodward

Critical Theories, International Relations and the Anti-Globalisation Movement
The politics of global resistance
Edited by Catherine Eschle and Bice Maiguashca

Resisting Intellectual Property
Debora J. Halbert

Globalization, Governmentality, and Global Politics
Regulation for the rest of us?
Ronnie D. Lipschutz, with James K. Rowe

Neoliberal Hegemony
A global critique
Edited by Dieter Plehwe, Bernhard Walpen and Gisela Neunhffer

Images of Gramsci