The Fall of the US Empire
Global Fault-Lines and the Shifting Imperial Order
Description:... Intro -- About the Authors -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- Box: a definition of global fault-lines -- 1 Global fault-lines -- Preliminary observations -- Beyond conventional wisdom -- Marxisant discourses on the financial crisis -- The tragedy of globalization: the end of the 'long twentieth century'? -- 2 From Bretton Woods to the abyss of globalization, 1944-71 -- Background to Bretton Woods -- The US empire-state responds to the great slump -- Determinants of the rise and fall of the 'Golden Age' -- 3 The failure of financial statecraft (1), 1971-91 -- A note on Ernest Mandel -- Business strategies dealing with stagflation -- An unstable 'petrodollar'/'weapon-dollar' regime -- 4 The failure of financial statecraft (2), 1991-2011 -- Towards a periodization of imperial orders -- The explosion of financialization and how it undermined growth -- The internationalization of the US treasury -- The implosion of financialization and the case of the United Kingdom -- 5 The power shift to the global East -- Issues between the United States and China -- The growth of emerging economies -- Control over resources -- The growing consumer classes -- Brazil's experience -- Projected results of the shift in economic power -- Analysis and interpretation -- 6 Resource depletion and environmental degradation -- Oil -- Oil scarcity and its impact -- The environment in crisis -- Responses to environmental challenges -- Conclusion -- Summing up the argument -- Prospects for the future -- Notes -- References -- Websites -- Index
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