出版社: Oxford University Press, USA
出版年: 2013-11-18
页数: 208
定价: USD 99.00
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780199330843
内容简介 · · · · · ·
The Great Recession has prompted a reassessment of the specific mode of capitalist accumulation that achieved dominance in the era of globalization. Yet just about all of this literature has focused on one of two issues: why things went wrong, and what we need to do in order to return the system to stability. Outside of a contingent of radical socialists on the fringes of the d...
The Great Recession has prompted a reassessment of the specific mode of capitalist accumulation that achieved dominance in the era of globalization. Yet just about all of this literature has focused on one of two issues: why things went wrong, and what we need to do in order to return the system to stability. Outside of a contingent of radical socialists on the fringes of the debate, virtually no one questioned whether capitalism could continue. In Does Capitalism Have a Future?, the prominent theorist Georgi Derleugian has gathered together a quintet of eminent macrosociologists to assess whether the capitalist system can survive.
The prevalent common wisdom, for all its current gloom, nevertheless safely assumes that capitalism cannot break down permanently because there is no alternative. The authors shatter this assumption, arguing that this generalization is not supported by theory but is rather an outgrowth of the optimistic nineteenth-century claim that human history ascends through stages to an enlightened equilibrium of liberal capitalism. Yet as they point out, just about all major historical systems have broken down in the end (e.g., the Roman empire). In the modern epoch there have been several cataclysmic events-notably the French revolution, World War I, and the collapse of the Soviet bloc-that came to pass mainly because contemporary political elites had spectacularly failed to calculate the consequences of the processes they presumed to govern. At present, none of our governing elites and very few of our intellectuals can fathom an ending to our current reigning system. Considering whether a collapse is possible is the task that the quintet-Derleugian, Michael Mann, Randall Collins, Craig Calhoun, and Immanuel Wallerstein-sets out to explore. While all of the contributors arrive at different conclusions, they are in constant dialogue with each other and therefore able to construct relatively seamless-if open-ended-whole. For instance, Wallerstein (who accurately predicted the collapse of the Soviet system in 1979) and Collins, identify fatal structural faults in twenty-first century capitalism. Mann, on the other hand, does not think that there is any serious alternative to the market dynamic, but he does identify other serious threats to the system, including environmental degradation. Calhoun and Derluguian are more circumspect and focus on the role of politics in steering the system toward either revival or collapse.
This most ambitious of books, written by the highest caliber of sociologists, asks the biggest of questions: are we on the cusp of a radical world historical shift or not?
作者简介 · · · · · ·
Immanuel Wallerstein is Senior Research Scholar at Yale and founder of the Fernand Braudel Center at Binghamton University.
Randall Collins is Dorothy Swaine Thomas Professor of Sociology University of Pennsylvania and former President of American Sociological Association.
Michael Mann teaches sociology at UCLA.
Georgi Derluguian teaches Social Research and Public Policy at New...
Immanuel Wallerstein is Senior Research Scholar at Yale and founder of the Fernand Braudel Center at Binghamton University.
Randall Collins is Dorothy Swaine Thomas Professor of Sociology University of Pennsylvania and former President of American Sociological Association.
Michael Mann teaches sociology at UCLA.
Georgi Derluguian teaches Social Research and Public Policy at New York University Abu Dhabi.
Craig Calhoun is Director of the London School of Economics.
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1 有用 水月孤桥 2015-02-21 14:10:36
关于“资本主义”,已有众多经济学家、社会学家曾经对于它的未来进行分析,福山曾经说过资本主义社会是人类历史的终结,马克思和熊彼特曾经从不同角度论证它必将被社会主义所代替,约翰.罗默 曾经写过《社会主义的未来》,本书的几位作者作为社会学家也给出了自己的阐述,本书已经有中译版
0 有用 廖芜 2021-01-18 10:50:01
翻过,感觉还是去看几位学者自己的著述比较详细
0 有用 廖芜 2021-01-18 10:50:01
翻过,感觉还是去看几位学者自己的著述比较详细
1 有用 水月孤桥 2015-02-21 14:10:36
关于“资本主义”,已有众多经济学家、社会学家曾经对于它的未来进行分析,福山曾经说过资本主义社会是人类历史的终结,马克思和熊彼特曾经从不同角度论证它必将被社会主义所代替,约翰.罗默 曾经写过《社会主义的未来》,本书的几位作者作为社会学家也给出了自己的阐述,本书已经有中译版