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020 _a9781842773215
100 _aAmin, Samir
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245 0 _aObsolescent Capitalism: Contemporary Politics and Global Disorder/
_cSamir Amin
260 _aLondonØ›
_bZed Books;
_c2003
300 _a208p;
_c22x14cm
520 _aThe author explores the structural and systemic devastation capitalism has caused in the world, exposing its real ambition of maintaining the wealth of the wealthy, at the cost of everything else. Capitalism is going senile. Its ambition is now restricted to maintaining the wealth of the wealthy in the world, while the poor, condemned to remain out of the loop, are increasingly demonized as the enemy. This is the theme of Samir Amin's major new book, in which the celebrated analyst presents a synoptic view of capitalism's future. He depicts a world in which NATO and socalled coalitions of the willing have taken over the role of the United Nations, in which US hegemony is more or less complete, in which millions are condemned to die in order to preserve the social order of the US, Europe and Japan. Samir Amin's analyses of the Gulf War, the wars in former Yugoslavia and the war in Central Asia reveal the scope of US strategic aims. He explains why Macdonald's hamburgers need McDonnell-Douglas's F-16s, arguing that the political and military dimension of US dominance is as significant as US economic preponderance in determining the future of capitalist development - with the recent US invasion and occupation of Iraq being a confirmation of Amin's prescient thesis.
546 _aEnglish
650 _aCapitalism- decline
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650 _aHB501 Economic Theory. Demography- Capital. Capitalism-
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