Climate Leviathan
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (539 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01MUPGZF6 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Praise for In the Long Run We Are All Dead: “Mann treats Keynesianism as the alternative to economic collapse and/or revolution and argues that insofar as leftists have come to embrace it, they have quite explicitly given up hope for an alternative to capitalism.” —Dean Baker, author of The End of Loser Liberalism “A detailed, fast-flowing account of how repeatedly guileful Keynesianism crisis management has saved the elite by reengineering tragedy … rewarding reading.” —Danny Dorling, author of Inequality and the 1% “Mann makes it clear that Keynes’s critique of liberalism can be found already in Hegel; and that now
Geoff Mann is Director of the Centre for Global Political Economy, Simon Fraser University. He is the author most recently of In the Long Run We Are All Dead: Keynesianism, Political Economy and Revolution.Joel Wainwright, associate professor at Ohio State, is author of Geopiracy and Decolonizing Development, which won the Blaut award.
Climate Leviathan provides a radical way of thinking about how environmental change will intensify existing challenges to global order, unearthing the forces for a planetary variation on existing forms of sovereignty. How climate change will affect our political theory—for better and worseDespite all the science and summits, leading capitalist states have not managed to mitigate anything close to an adequate level of carbon emissions. Drawing on a wide range of political thought, Wainwright and Mann argue that rapid climate change will transform global political economy and our world’s basic political arrangements, leading toward a capitalist planetary sovereignty. Alternative futures must be constructed in the face of these transformations.. What are the likely political-economic outcomes? Where is our warming world headed?