CAPITALISM AFTER POSTMODERNISM - NEO-CONSERVATISM, LEGITIMACY AND THE THEORY OF PUBLIC CAPITAL

Wilson, H. T.

ISBN 10: 9004124586 / ISBN 13: 9789004124585

Published by Brill, Leiden, Netherlands, 2002

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Volume 5 of the International Comparative Social Studies series. 291 pages + 17 pages of indices. All pages are clean, crisp, and white. Green cloth binding with white and brown titles on front cover and spine, and a monochromatic photograph of coin stacks and dollar bills on front cover. Edge of spine on front cover is slightly bumped and bottom right-hand corner of front cover is chipped. FINE.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: CAPITALISM AFTER POSTMODERNISM - NEO-CONSERVATISM, LEGITIMACY AND THE THEORY OF PUBLIC CAPITAL
• Publisher: Brill, Leiden, Netherlands
• Publication Date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 9004124586
• ISBN 13: 9789004124585
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Book Type: Book
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Synopsis

This book addresses a number of interrelated issues in the old and new political economy. The focus on globalization is generally taking the mind off questions of debt and indebtedness. Capital now has such a decided institutional edge that its legitimacy in capitalist democracies is under threat. Present developments seriously jeopardize the balance between capital, public and social institutions on which the progress and welfare of the developing world and the capitalist democracies depend. Going back to Marx, Weber and Habermas, Wilson concludes that against the backdrop of Weberian pessimism, social intellectuals still have to rise to the occasion, rather than assisting in the massive, and consequently, self-confirming prophecy that contemporary postmodernism now threatens to become.

About the Author

H.T. Wilson, Ph.D. (1968) in Political Science and Constitutional Law, Rutgers University, is Professor of Public Policy and Law at York University, Toronto. He has published extensively in public and social policy and social and political thought, including Sex and Gender (Brill, 1989).