"What have WTO accessions contributed to the rules-based multilateral trading system? What demands have been made by original WTO members on acceding governments? How have the acceding governments fared? This volume of essays offers critical readings on how WTO accession negotiations have...

Chapter 1. Introduction: Revisiting State theory in Knowledge Capitalism after markets failure and pandemic crisis through a space – time approach -- Chapter 2. The socio – space – time relativity of the State -- Chapter 3. Long – term cyclicality of capitalism as State time dimension --...

The book builds on an important emergent body of discussion which questions, both empirically and theoretically, the conventional neoclassical doctrine that economies are more efficient if the state withdraws from it. It develops a “space-time” approach to state theory as a way of explaining...