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Articles by Giovanni Arrighi
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The Winding Paths of Capital
in NLR 56, March-April 2009, pp. 61-94
Subjects: Biography and Intellectual History , World Economy and Globalization
The author of Long Twentieth Century and Adam Smith in Beijing, interviewed by David Harvey, on dispossession and development, capitalist crises, China’s future. The political education of a teenage factory-manager, via African liberation struggles and autonomia operaia; and influences—Braudel, Gramsci, Smith, Marx—in Arrighi’s work.
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Hegemony Unravelling-2
in NLR 33, May-June 2005, pp. 83-116
Subjects: Economic Theory , United States , International Relations
In the conclusion to his major two-part essay on the new US imperialism, Giovanni Arrighi situates the contradictions of the current American ‘spatial fix’ for the problems of overaccumulation in the context of a longue durée of systemic cycles. Have Washington’s attempts to secure its world role through the invasion of Iraq instead hastened the rise of China?
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Hegemony Unravelling-1
in NLR 32, March-April 2005, pp. 23-80
Subjects: Economic Theory , United States , International Relations
In the first part of a major engagement with David Harvey’s New Imperialism, Giovanni Arrighi sets out the interlocking dynamics, spatial and temporal, of capitalist development and imperialism. Should US difficulties in Iraq and the ballooning current-account deficit be read as symptoms of a deeper-lying crisis, a shift from hegemony to dominance presaging the rise of a new East Asian challenger?
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The Social and Political Economy of Global Turbulence
in NLR 20, March-April 2003, pp. 5-71
Subjects: Economic Theory , Social Theory , United States , World Economy and Globalization
In a landmark engagement with Robert Brenner’s account of the long downturn of the world economy since the 70s, Giovanni Arrighi lays out a social and political economy of the roles of labour unrest, national liberation and corporate financialization in the crisis of the post-war order, and the prospects for a militarized US hegemony today.
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The African Crisis
in NLR 15, May-June 2002, pp. 5-36
Subjects: Africa , Third World , World Economy and Globalization
What triggered the descent into misery of so many Sub-Saharan societies in the past twenty years? The regional roots of Africa’s disorders, and the structural transformations in the world system led by the USA that have overshadowed them.
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Financial Expansions in World Historical Perspective: A Reply to Robert Pollin
in NLR I/224, July-August 1997, pp. 154-159
Subjects: Economic Theory , World Economy and Globalization
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World Income Inequalities and the Future of Socialism
in NLR I/189, September-October 1991, pp. 39-65
Subjects: World Economy and Globalization
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Marxist Century, American Century: The Making and Remaking of the World Labour Movement
in NLR I/179, January-February 1990, pp. 29-63
Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy
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Towards a Theory of Capitalist Crisis
in NLR I/111, September-October 1978, pp. 3-24
Subjects: Economic Theory
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'Political Economy of South Africa'
in NLR I/50, July-August 1968, pp. 126-127
Subjects: South Africa
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The Political Economy of Rhodesia
in NLR I/39, September-October 1966, pp. 35-65
Subjects: Zimbabwe
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