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100 1  Wallerstein, Immanuel Maurice,|d1930-2019 
245 10 Does capitalism have a future? /|cby Immanuel Wallerstein,
       Randall Collins, Michael Mann, Georgi Derluguian and Craig
       Calhoun. 
264  1 Oxford ;|aNew York :|bOxford University Press,|c[2013] 
300    192 pages ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references. 
505 0  Collective introduction: "The next big turn" -- 
       "Structural crisis, or why capitalists may no longer find 
       capitalism rewarding" / Immanuel Wallerstein -- "The end 
       of middle-class work: no more escapes" / Randall Collins -
       - "The end may be nigh, but for whom?" / Michael Mann -- 
       "What communism was" / Georgi Derluguian -- "What 
       threatens capitalism now?" / Craig Calhoun -- Collective 
       conclusion: getting real." 
520    "The Great Recession has prompted many reassessments of 
       the finance-driven economic order that achieved world 
       dominance in the era of globalization. Yet just about 
       every observer has focused on only two issues: why things 
       went wrong, and what we need to do in order to return the 
       system to stability. Virtually no one has questioned 
       whether the system as such can continue. In Does 
       Capitalism Have a Future?, a quintet of globally eminent 
       scholars - Immanuel Wallerstein, Randall Collins, Michael 
       Mann, Georgi Derluguian, and Craig Calhoun - survey the 
       current global landscape and cut their way through to the 
       most crucial issue of all: whether our capitalist system 
       can survive in the medium run. Despite all its current 
       gloom, conventional wisdom still 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, all major historical systems - from the 
       Roman Empire to the Qing dynasty in China - have broken 
       down in the end. 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 intellectuals can fathom
       an ending to our current reigning system. How possible is 
       a systemic collapse in the medium-run of coming decades is
       the central question of this debate. While the 
       contributors arrive at different conclusions, they are in 
       constant dialogue with one another and therefore able to 
       construct a relatively seamless--if open-ended--whole. 
       Written by five of world's most eminent scholars of global
       historical trends, this ambitious book asks the biggest of
       questions: are we on the cusp of a radical world 
       historical shift or not?"--|cProvided by publisher. 
520    "A quintet of globally eminent scholars - Immanuel 
       Wallerstein, Randall Collins, Michael Mann, Georgi 
       Derluguian, and Craig Calhoun - survey the current global 
       landscape and cut their way through to the most crucial 
       issue of all: whether our capitalist system can survive in
       the medium run. Despite all its current gloom, 
       conventional wisdom still assumes that capitalism cannot 
       break down permanently because there is no alternative. 
       The authors shatter this assumption, and while all of the 
       contributors arrive at different conclusions, they are in 
       constant dialogue with one another and therefore able to 
       construct a relatively seamless--if open-ended--whole"--
       |cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Capitalism. 
650  0 Middle class. 
650  0 Technological innovations|xForecasting. 
650  7 POLITICAL SCIENCE|xGeneral.|2bisacsh 
650  7 POLITICAL SCIENCE|xEconomic Conditions.|2bisacsh 
650  7 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS|xEconomics|xGeneral.|2bisacsh 
650  7 Capitalism.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00846425 
650  7 Middle class.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01020437 
650  7 Technological innovations|xForecasting.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst01145025 
650  7 Kapitalismus.|2gnd 
650  7 Wirtschaftsordnung.|2gnd 
650  7 Kritik.|2gnd 
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