Books written by Richard Westra
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Phases of Capitalist Development: Booms, Crises and Globalizations
Harris, L. (1991b) `State Monopoly Capitalism', in Bottomore, A Dictionary, op cit. Harrison, B. (1987) `Cold Bath or Restructuring? An Expansion of the Weisskkopf± Bowles±Gordon Framework', Science and Society, 51(1).
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The Evil Axis of Finance: The US-Japan-China Stranglehold on the Global Future
The present volume clearly answers these questions and more as it connects the dots linking the 2008 meltdown and over a decade of dress rehearsals for it to a rigged global financial game that cemented US international dominance under ...
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Political Economy and Globalization
It also offers a positive vision for socio-material betterment in redistributive, eco-sensitive socialist societies of tomorrow. This is a must read book for scholars, students, progressive policy makers and activists.
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Exit from Globalization
The book concludes with an examination of the various social constituencies currently supporting radical change and explores the narrowing pathways to bring change about.
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Periodizing Capitalism and Capitalist Extinction
This book offers the first systematic exposition and critique of the major approaches to periodizing capitalism, bringing to bear both deep rooted theoretical questions and meticulous empirical analysis to grapple with the seismic economic ...
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Unleashing Usury: How Finance Opened the Door for Capitalism Then Swallowed It Whole
Usury laid medieval society to waste.
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Economics, Science and Capitalism
This book critiques the criticizers, explaining why heterodox economics challenges have faltered, and then presents a coherent alternative paradigm of its own.
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Socialism in the 21st Century
The procedure adopted for this book on socialism in the 21st century is as follows: Chapter One sets the stage for the book by looking at the way the notion of socialism has gained renewed respectability through calls for it to commence via ...
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Unleashing Usury: How Finance Opened the Door to Capitalism Then Swallowed It Whole
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
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Exit from Globalization
Richard Westra. show how in more concrete situations of economic and institutional change they are to be operationalized. And how cognizance of them helps us navigate thorny issues for the future of environmental sustainability and ...
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Siyasi Iktisat ve Küresel Kapitalizm: 21.Yüzyil, Bugün ve Yarin
Siyasi Iktisat ve Küresel Kapitalizm: 21.Yüzyil, Bugün ve Yarin
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Economics, Science and Capitalism
The Economic Journal, 101(404) 69–74. Norris, C. (1996) Reclaiming Truth (Durham, NC: Duke University Press). Norris, C. (1997) Against Relativism: Philosophy of Science, Deconstruction and Critical Theory (Oxford: Blackwell).
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The Future of Capitalism After the Financial Crisis: The Varieties of Capitalism Debate in the Age of Austerity
This book breaks with academic path dependency and attempts to open new vistas of political economy and of multidisciplinary analysis that are crucially important if our thought processes are to be effective in a world in jeopardy.
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Varieties of Alternative Economic Systems: Practical Utopias for an Age of Global Crisis and Austerity
This volume will be of interest to academics and students who study political science, ecological economics, international politics and socialism.
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Political Economy and Global Capitalism: The 21st Century, Present and Future
In these terms, the profit-oriented, market-mediated capitalist economy, with its distinctive, self-valorizing logic, ... Third, capital has developed strong capacities to extend its operations in time and space (time-space ...
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The Rejuvenation of Political Economy
This book provides the basic knowledge of Japanese contributions in political economy and the ongoing research agenda, such as the pursuit of theoretical consistency in Marxian economics by Uno School; the concept of ‘civil society’ as ...
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Political Economy and Global Capitalism: The 21st Century, Present and Future
This volume brings together original and timely writings by internationally renowned scholars that reflect on the current trajectories of global capitalism and, in the light of these, consider likely, possible or desirable futures.
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Reconciling Human Existence with Ecological Integrity: Science, Ethics, Economics and Law
Laura Westra and Klaus Bosselmann James Karr discusses ecological integrity by referring to 'biological integrity'. Laura Westra, on the other hand, in her earlier work has distinguished biological from ecological integrity (Westra, ...
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Reconciling Human Existence with Ecological Integrity: Science, Ethics, Economics and Law
This book is the definitive examination of the state of the field now, and the way things may (and must) develop in the future.
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The Political Economy of Emerging Markets: Varieties of BRICS in the Age of Global Crises and Austerity
This book is of great importance to those who study political economy, development economics and international political economy.