A New Book: Capitalism in the Age of Globalization The Management of Contemporary Society

By Samir Amin

Zed Books, 2014

Samir Amin remains one of the world's most influential thinkers about the changing nature of North-South relations in the development of contemporary capitalism. In this highly prescient book, originally published in 1997, he provides a powerful analysis of the new unilateral capitalist era following the collapse of the Soviet model, and the apparent triumph of the market and globalization.
Amin's innovative analysis charts the rise of ethnicity and fundamentalism as consequences of the failure of ruling classes in the South to counter the exploitative terms of globalization. This has had profound implications and continues to resonate today. Furthermore, his deconstruction of the Bretton Woods institutions as managerial mechanisms which protect the profitability of capital provides an important insight into the continued difficulties in reforming them. Amin's rejection of the apparent inevitability of globalization was prophetic, as years later we have seen markets and supply chains more integrated than ever.

A landmark work by a key contemporary thinker.

Table of Contents
Foreword by John Bellamy Foster
Preface to the critique influence change edition
Introduction
1. The Future of Global Polarization
2. The Capitalist Economic Management of the Crisis of Contemporary Society
3. Reforming International Monetary Management of the Crisis
4. The Rise of Ethnicity: A Political Response to Economic Globalization
5. What are the Conditions for Relaunching Development in the South?
6. The Challenges Posed by Economic Globalization: The European Case
7. Ideology and Social Thought: The Intelligentsia and the Development Crisis