The Crisis and Renewal of U.S. Capitalism: A Civilizational Approach to Modern American Political Economy

The Crisis and Renewal of U.S. Capitalism: A Civilizational Approach to Modern American Political Economy
ISBN-10
1317439120
ISBN-13
9781317439127
Category
Political Science
Pages
302
Language
English
Published
2015-12-22
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Laurence Cossu-Beaumont, Jacques-Henri Coste, Jean-Baptiste Velut

Description

Despite the reversal of America’s fortune from the triumphalism of the Roaring Nineties to the gloom of the lost decade and the Great Depression, theoretical conceptions of US capitalism have remained surprisingly unchanged. In fact, if the crisis questioned the sustainability of the US capitalist paradigm, it did not fundamentally challenge academic theorization of American political economy. This book departs from the American political economy literature to identify three common myths that have shaped our conceptualization of US capitalism: its reduction to a state-market dyad dis-embedded from societal factors; the illusion of a weak state and the synchronic conception of the US variety of capitalism. To remedy these pitfalls, the authors propose a civilizational approach to American political economy at the crossroads between cultural studies, history, sociology and political science. Drawing together contributions from a rich variety of fields (from geography to cultural studies, political science and sociology) this work sheds a new light on America’s "cultural political economy" combining theoretical reflection with empirical data and offering innovative perspectives on the crisis and renewal of American capitalism.

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