Introduction : political economy and globalization -- Specifying the constant of capitalism in the theory of a bourgeois utopia -- Periodizing capitalism and the world historic transmutability of capital -- Globalization and the retreat of capital to the interstices of the world -- Barbarism or...

Acknowledgements -- Preface -- It's not just the inequality stupid! -- Shylock unchained -- Shylock chained -- Troubles in capitalist paradise -- Merchants of Venice on Wall Street -- The final "pound of flesh

"The Future of Capitalism After the Financial Crisis: The Varieties of Capitalism Debate in the Age of Austerity contains thirteen world leading political economists writing from within eight different countries who critically analyze the current crisis tendencies of capitalism both globally and...

"Exit from Globalization moves from theory to practice: from questions of where incorrigible knowledge of substantive economic life derives and how that knowledge is put towards making a progressive, redistributive, eco-sustainable future of human flourishing. Westra discards at the outset views...

Front Matter -- Half Title -- Other titles of interest -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on the Contributors -- Main Body -- Introduction: Political Economy and Global Capitalism, by Robert Albritton, Bob Jessop and Richard Westra -- References -- Part I:...

Chapter 1. Stages of Capitalism: From Start to Finish -- Chapter 2. The Theory of a Purely Capitalist Society -- Chapter 3. Stage Theory -- Chapter 4. Historical Analysis as a Level of Political Economy -- Chapter 5. The Stage of Mercantilism -- Chapter 6. The Stage of Liberalism -- Chapter 7....