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Possible Futures Series: Volumes 1 3 (Possible Futures, 4),Used
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The first three volumes of the series, available for purchase as a set now!The Possible Futures Series gathers together leading socialscientists to address the significance of the global economic crisis in aseries of short, accessible books. Each volume takes on the past,present, and future of this crisis suggesting that it has an informativehistory, that the consequences could be much more basic than the stockmarket declines, and that only fundamental changes not fiscalbandaids can head off future repetitions.CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE: Immanuel Wallerstein, David Harvey, SaskiaSassen, James Kenneth Galbraith, Manuel Castells, Nancy Fraser, RogersBrubaker, David Held, Mary Kaldor, Vadim Volkov, Giovanni Arrighi,Beverly Silver, and Fernando Coronil.Volume I, Business as UsualThe Roots of the Global Financial MeltdownEdited by Craig Calhoun and Georgi DerluguianMuch more basic than the result of a few financial traders cheating the system, Business as Usualshows how the current financial crisis was made possible by bothneoliberal financial reforms and a massive turning away frommanufacturing things of value to make profits from trading financialassets. In original essays, the contributors establish how the GreatRecession is related to crises of the past, and yet why this meltdownwas different. The volume concludes by asking whether the crisis despite its severity contains seeds of a new global economy, whatrole the US will play, and whether China or other countries will rise toglobal leadership.Volume II, The Deepening CrisisGovernance Challenges after NeoliberalismEdited by Craig Calhoun and Georgi DerluguianResponse to financial meltdown is entangled with basic challenges toglobal governance. Environment, global security, ethnicity andnationalism are all global issues today. Focusing on the political andsocial dimensions of the crisis, contributors examine changes inrelationships between the world's richer and poorer countries, effortsto strengthen global institutions, and dificulties facing states tryingto create stability for their citizens.Volume III, AftermathA New Global Economic Order?Edited by Craig Calhoun and Georgi DerluguianThe global financial crisis showed deep problems with mainstreameconomic predictions, as well as the vulnerability of the world'srichest countries and the enormous potential of some poorer ones. China,India, Brazil, and other counties are growing faster than Europe orAmerica and have weathered the crisis better. Is their growth due tofollowing conventional economic guidelines or to strong state leadershipand sometimes protectionism? These issues are basic to the question ofwhich countries will grow in comind decades, as well as the likelyconflicts over global trade policy, currency standards, and economiccooperation.
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