{"product_id":"possible-futures-series-9780814723579","title":"Possible Futures Series","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first three volumes of the series, available for purchase as a set now!\u003cbr\u003eThe Possible Futures Series gathers together leading social \u003cbr\u003escientists to address the significance of the global economic crisis in a\u003cbr\u003e series of short, accessible books. Each volume takes on the past, \u003cbr\u003epresent, and future of this crisis suggesting that it has an informative\u003cbr\u003e history, that the consequences could be much more basic than the stock \u003cbr\u003emarket declines, and that only fundamental changes -- not fiscal \u003cbr\u003eband-aids -- can head off future repetitions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\tCONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE: Immanuel Wallerstein, David Harvey, Saskia \u003cbr\u003eSassen, James Kenneth Galbraith, Manuel Castells, Nancy Fraser, Rogers \u003cbr\u003eBrubaker, David Held, Mary Kaldor, Vadim Volkov, Giovanni Arrighi, \u003cbr\u003eBeverly Silver, and Fernando Coronil.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\tVolume I, Business as Usual \u003cbr\u003e\tThe Roots of the Global Financial Meltdown\u003cbr\u003e\tEdited by Craig Calhoun and Georgi Derluguian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\tMuch more basic than the result of a few financial traders cheating the system, Business as Usual\u003cbr\u003e shows how the current financial crisis was made possible by both \u003cbr\u003eneoliberal financial reforms and a massive turning away from \u003cbr\u003emanufacturing things of value to make profits from trading financial \u003cbr\u003eassets. In original essays, the contributors establish how the Great \u003cbr\u003eRecession is related to crises of the past, and yet why this meltdown \u003cbr\u003ewas different. The volume concludes by asking whether the crisis -- \u003cbr\u003edespite its severity -- contains seeds of a new global economy, what \u003cbr\u003erole the US will play, and whether China or other countries will rise to\u003cbr\u003e global leadership.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVolume II, The Deepening Crisis \u003cbr\u003e\tGovernance Challenges after Neoliberalism\u003cbr\u003e\tEdited by Craig Calhoun and Georgi Derluguian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\tResponse to financial meltdown is entangled with basic challenges to\u003cbr\u003e global governance. Environment, global security, ethnicity and \u003cbr\u003enationalism are all global issues today. Focusing on the political and \u003cbr\u003esocial dimensions of the crisis, contributors examine changes in \u003cbr\u003erelationships between the world's richer and poorer countries, efforts \u003cbr\u003eto strengthen global institutions, and dificulties facing states trying \u003cbr\u003eto create stability for their citizens.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVolume III, Aftermath \u003cbr\u003e\tA New Global Economic Order?\u003cbr\u003e\tEdited by Craig Calhoun and Georgi Derluguian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\tThe global financial crisis showed deep problems with mainstream \u003cbr\u003eeconomic predictions, as well as the vulnerability of the world's \u003cbr\u003erichest countries and the enormous potential of some poorer ones. China,\u003cbr\u003e India, Brazil, and other counties are growing faster than Europe or \u003cbr\u003eAmerica and have weathered the crisis better. Is their growth due to \u003cbr\u003efollowing conventional economic guidelines or to strong state leadership\u003cbr\u003e and sometimes protectionism? These issues are basic to the question of \u003cbr\u003ewhich countries will grow in comind decades, as well as the likely \u003cbr\u003econflicts over global trade policy, currency standards, and economic \u003cbr\u003ecooperation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Craig Calhoun","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48089930367227,"sku":"9780814723579","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/possible-futures-series-9780814723579","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}