Capitalism's Last Stand? : Deglobalization in the Age of Austerity (Paperback, New ed.)

Introduction: Globalization's Debacle - Crisis and Opportunity Part I: The Destructive Dynamics of Finance Capital 1. Why and How Finance Became Dominant A Primer on the Wall Street Meltdown - Recovery Recedes, Convulsion Looms 2. The US: Cutting Edge of Crisis Capitalism in an Apocalyptic Mood - The Political Consequences of Stagnation - Lessons of the Obama Debacle 3. Europe's Tragic Spiral The Celtic Tiger Follows the Asian Tiger to Extinction - Greece: Same Tragedy, Different Scripts - Germany's Social Democrats and the European 4. Invulnerable Asia? Chain Gang Economics - China Lassoes its Neighbors - Will China Save the World from Depression Part II: Globalization in Crisis 5. Real Economy of the Global Economy Capital is a Fickle Lover - The Apple Connection - Labor Trafficking: Modern-Day Slave Trade - Destroying African Agriculture 6. Capitalism and the Environment Climate and Capitalism in Copenhagen - Can Capitalism Survive Climate Change? - Breaking the Climate Stalemate - Seven Billion ... and Rising 7. The End of Multilateralism? The Crisis of Multilateralism - The Dracula Round - U20: Will the Global Economy Resurface? Part III: Competing Alternatives 8. Keynesianism in the Breach Keynes: a Man for this Season? - The Coming Capitalist Consensus 9. Resistance and Transformation Elites versus Greens in the Global South - Defy the Creditors and Get Away with it - The Arab Revolutions and the Democratic Imagination - The World Social Forum at the Crossroads Conclusion: Deglobalization - An Idea Whose Time Has Come?