{"product_id":"possible-futures-series-1","title":"Possible Futures Series","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first three volumes of the series, available for purchase as a set now!\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Possible Futures Series gathers together leading social \u003cbr\u003e\nscientists to address the significance of the global economic crisis in a\u003cbr\u003e\n series of short, accessible books. Each volume takes on the past, \u003cbr\u003e\npresent, and future of this crisis suggesting that it has an informative\u003cbr\u003e\n history, that the consequences could be much more basic than the stock \u003cbr\u003e\nmarket declines, and that only fundamental changes -- not fiscal \u003cbr\u003e\nband-aids -- can head off future repetitions.\u003cbr\u003e\nCONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE: Immanuel Wallerstein, David Harvey, Saskia \u003cbr\u003e\nSassen, James Kenneth Galbraith, Manuel Castells, Nancy Fraser, Rogers \u003cbr\u003e\nBrubaker, David Held, Mary Kaldor, Vadim Volkov, Giovanni Arrighi, \u003cbr\u003e\nBeverly Silver, and Fernando Coronil.\u003cbr\u003e\nVolume I, Business as Usual \u003cbr\u003e\nThe Roots of the Global Financial Meltdown\u003cbr\u003e\nEdited by Craig Calhoun and Georgi Derluguian\u003cbr\u003e\nMuch more basic than the result of a few financial traders cheating the system, Business as Usual\u003cbr\u003e\n shows how the current financial crisis was made possible by both \u003cbr\u003e\nneoliberal financial reforms and a massive turning away from \u003cbr\u003e\nmanufacturing things of value to make profits from trading financial \u003cbr\u003e\nassets. In original essays, the contributors establish how the Great \u003cbr\u003e\nRecession is related to crises of the past, and yet why this meltdown \u003cbr\u003e\nwas different. The volume concludes by asking whether the crisis -- \u003cbr\u003e\ndespite its severity -- contains seeds of a new global economy, what \u003cbr\u003e\nrole the US will play, and whether China or other countries will rise to\u003cbr\u003e\n global leadership.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nVolume II, The Deepening Crisis \u003cbr\u003e\nGovernance Challenges after Neoliberalism\u003cbr\u003e\nEdited by Craig Calhoun and Georgi Derluguian\u003cbr\u003e\nResponse to financial meltdown is entangled with basic challenges to\u003cbr\u003e\n global governance. Environment, global security, ethnicity and \u003cbr\u003e\nnationalism are all global issues today. Focusing on the political and \u003cbr\u003e\nsocial dimensions of the crisis, contributors examine changes in \u003cbr\u003e\nrelationships between the world's richer and poorer countries, efforts \u003cbr\u003e\nto strengthen global institutions, and dificulties facing states trying \u003cbr\u003e\nto create stability for their citizens.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nVolume III, Aftermath \u003cbr\u003e\nA New Global Economic Order?\u003cbr\u003e\nEdited by Craig Calhoun and Georgi Derluguian\u003cbr\u003e\nThe global financial crisis showed deep problems with mainstream \u003cbr\u003e\neconomic predictions, as well as the vulnerability of the world's \u003cbr\u003e\nrichest countries and the enormous potential of some poorer ones. China,\u003cbr\u003e\n India, Brazil, and other counties are growing faster than Europe or \u003cbr\u003e\nAmerica and have weathered the crisis better. Is their growth due to \u003cbr\u003e\nfollowing conventional economic guidelines or to strong state leadership\u003cbr\u003e\n and sometimes protectionism? These issues are basic to the question of \u003cbr\u003e\nwhich countries will grow in comind decades, as well as the likely \u003cbr\u003e\nconflicts over global trade policy, currency standards, and economic \u003cbr\u003e\ncooperation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Craig Calhoun","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53615478997372,"sku":"9780814772874","price":47.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/missing-cover_bb186a2e-724c-4238-8fad-a38ea7fb2d40.jpg?v=1746711523","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/possible-futures-series-1","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}