Adam Smith in Beijing. Lineages of the Twenty-First Century. [Neubuch]

Arrighi, Giovanni:

ISBN 10: 1844671046 / ISBN 13: 9781844671045

Published by London/NY, Verso, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Adam Smith in Beijing. Lineages of the Twenty-First Century. [Neubuch]
• Publisher: London/NY, Verso
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1844671046
• ISBN 13: 9781844671045
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1. Auflage.
• Condition: Neu
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Weight: 775 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Wirtschaft

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Synopsis

In the late eighteenth century, the political economist Adam Smith predicted an eventual equalization of power between the conquering West and the conquered non-West. In this magisterial new work, Giovanni Arrighi shows how China’s extraordinary rise invites us to read The Wealth of Nations in a radically different way than is usually done. He examines how the recent US attempt to bring into existence the first truly global empire in world history was conceived in order to counter China’s spectacular economic success of the 1990s, and how the US’s disastrous failure in Iraq has made the People’s Republic of China the true winner of the US War on Terror. In the 21st century, China may well become again the kind of noncapitalist market economy that Smith described, under totally different domestic and world-historical conditions.

About the Author

Giovanni Arrighi (1937–2009) was Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. His books include The Long Twentieth Century, Adam Smith in Beijing, and, with Beverly Silver, Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System. His work has appeared in many publications, including New Left Review—who published<a href="http://www.newleftreview.org/?page=article&amp;view=2771"> an interview on his life-long intellectual trajectory</a> in March–April 2009, and <a href="http://www.newleftreview.org/?view=2814">an obituary</a> in Nov–Dec 2009—and there are more accounts on his <a href="http://www.sympathytree.com/giovanniarrighi1937/">memorial website</a>.