商品簡介
This collection of a dozen essays aims to provoke reflection on global political issues concerning capitalism and economic crisis, the neoliberalization of the state, localism and identity politics, racism in the age of America's first black president, and the World Health Organization in the face of economic pressure. The essays are organized around the three themes of transformation and politics, politics and identity, and a final "controversy" section focusing on an essay by Fred Block on whether capitalism is a useful concept anymore in "naming the system." In that final section, three responses take issue with Block in terms of capital accumulation, Karl Polyani's economic anthropology. The contributors are sociology professors from the United States and Europe. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
