The Crisis and Renewal of American Capitalism (eBook, PDF)

A Civilizational Approach to Modern American Political Economy
Redaktion: Cossu-Beaumont, Laurence; Velut, Jean-Baptiste; Coste, Jacques-Henri

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Produktbeschreibung

Despite the reversal of America's fortune from the triumphalism of the Roaring Nineties to the gloom of the lost decade and the Great Depression, theoretical conceptions of US capitalism have remained surprisingly unchanged. In fact, if the crisis questioned the sustainability of the US capitalist paradigm, it did not fundamentally challenge academic theorization of American political economy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317439127
• Artikelnr.: 44473864

Autorenporträt

Laurence Cossu-Beaumont is an Associate Professor at the University Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. She joined CERVEPAS, Research Center of Anglo-Saxon Economies, in 2011, as a specialist of the United States' soft power through cultural industries such as the book industry. Jean-Baptiste Velut is Assistant Professor in American Studies at Sorbonne Nouvelle University of Paris. He holds a PhD in North American Studies from the Sorbonne Nouvelle University of Paris and in political science from the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center. He wrote a dissertation entitled "Free or Fair Trade? The Battle for the Rules of American Trade Policy from NAFTA to CAFTA" (2009, Sorbonne Nouvelle University/CUNY) and has published several articles on trade policy, globalization debates and contemporary progressive movements in the United States. Jacques-Henri Coste is an Associate Professor of American studies at the Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 University and a member of the CERVEPAS/CREW research center on Anglo-Saxon economies. He is director of the B.A. program in Foreign Languages and International Business and also lectures at the Lyon Institut des Etudes Politiques on the evolutions of the U.S. economic model. He serves on the editorial board of Entreprendre and Innover and other academic journals. He has recently co-organized two international conferences on the "Representations of Capitalism in the English-speaking World".

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Robert Boyer. Introduction: The Crisis and Renewal of American
Capitalism: A Civilizational Approach Jacques-Henri Coste, Laurence
Cossu-Beaumont and Jean-Baptiste Velut Part 1: Re-embedding the Financial
Crisis in its Cultural Milieu Chapter 1: The "Wild West" on Wall Street: An
analysis of and prognosis for the American model of postmodern finance
capital in the global economy James McBride Chapter 2: Why and how the Fed
contributed to massive failure in asset markets Nicholas Sowels Chapter 3:
The Resilience of American neoliberalism Bradley T. Smith Chapter 4:
Consumption, circulation and the crisis of American capitalism Pierre
Arnaud Part 2: Shifting Paradigms, Shifting Scopes: Beyond the National
Crisis Chapter 5: A U.S. National Model of Capitalism? Lessons from the
Great Recession Martine Azuelos Chapter 6: Who's left to sink or swim?
Practices and policies of the 'submerged state' at the subnational level in
the wake of the economic recession Cécile Cormier Chapter 7: The subprime
crisis: A multiscalar issue challenging the American dream Cynthia
Ghorra-Gobin Chapter 8: Transcending boundaries: America's hybrid and
multiscalar response to the competitive challenge of globalization
Jean-Baptiste Velut Part 3: Disruptive and Creative Agency: The Dynamics of
Cultural Resilience and Renewal Chapter 9: The evolutions of the US
innovation system as a political economy paradigm: from innovation policy
making to ecoystemic governance? Jacques-Henri Coste Chapter 10: U.S. Labor
market institutions and employment dynamics: a turning point? Catherine
Sauviat Chapter 11: Occupy Wall Street: Anything More than a Fly in the
Ointment? Marie-Christine Pauwels Chapter 12: The Giving Pledge:
Philanthropy and the reinvention of American capitalism Laurence
Cossu-Beaumont