This book argues that a lack in perception of the progressive aspects of capitalism has resulted in policy measures that have frequently been defeated. It brings out the importance of capitalism as the promise of being able to attain socialism. Based on modern economics of a post-Keynesian nature, it rejects mechanistic Marxism and the civilisational process of cultural turn thinking.
The book is a comprehensive analysis of the origins of capitalism, its contradictions, the dynamics of non-capitalist societies and the challenges of globalisation (including theories of imperialism).
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Hartmut Elsenhans
Harmut Elsenhans is Professor of International Relations, University of Konstanz, Ph.D. 1973 (Berlin). Habilitation 1976 (Berlin). Teaching assignments in Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, Marburg; Visiting professor in Montreal, Dakar, Salzburg, New Dehi (JNU). Major publications: Frankreichs algerienkrieg 1954-62 (Munich: Hanser, 1974), Abhangiger Kapitallismus und burokratische Entwicklungsgesellschaft (Frankfurt am Main: Campus, 1981, English edition in preparation), Nord-Sud Beziehungen (Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1981, English edition: Development and Underdevelopment, New Delhi: Sage 1991).
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