Contradictions

Socialist Register 2002
A World of Contradictions
Edited by Leo Panitch & Colin Leys
Timely new analyses of the intensifying contradictions global capitalism is creating, and which market-driven governments are unable to resolve:

the obsession with growth and its consequences
the unsustainable dominance of financial capital
the limits and possibilities of anti-capitalist protest movements
globalised media and the erosion of democracy
cities, disability, poverty, global crime
illness and madness - the psychological price

A crucial guide for those concerned to build a world beyond the constraints of markets and the profit motive.

Contents:

Naomi Klein: Farewell to 'The End of History': Organization and Vision in Anti-Corporate Movements
André Drainville: Qubec City 2001 and the Making of Transnational Subjects
Gérard Duménil & Dominique Lévy: The Nature and Contradictions of Neoliberalism
Elmar Altvater: The Growth Obsession
David Harvey: The Art of Rent - Globalization, Monopoly and the Commodification of Culture
Graham Murdock & Peter Golding: Digital Possibilities, Market Realities: The Contradictions of Communications Convergence
Reg Whitaker: The Dark Side of Life - Globalization and International Crime
Guglielmo Carchedi: Imperialism, Dollarization and the Euro
Susanne Soederberg: The New International Financial Architecture - Imposed Leadership and 'Emerging Markets'
Paul Cammack: Making Poverty Work
Marta Russell & Ravi Malhotra: Capitalism and Disability
Michael Kidron: The Injured Self
David Miller: Media Power and Class Power - Overplaying Ideology
Pablo González Casanova: Negotiated Contradictions
Ellen Wood: Contradictions: Only in Capitalism?