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  • Delinking

    Towards a polycentric world

    by Samir Amin ...
    Is it possible for the Third World to escape from the constraints imposed by the world's economic system? Does not attempting to do so lead inevitably to the stagnation of barrackroom socialism? What room for manoeuvre do Third World states have? Are they condemned to dependence? These are some of the questions Samir Amin confronts in this major development of his theoretical ideas. He argues that ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Implosion of Contemporary Capitalism

    by Samir Amin ...
    Renowned political economist Samir Amin, engaged in a uniquelifelong effort both to narrate and affect the human condition on aglobal scale, brings his analysis up to the present—the world of2013. The key events of our times—financial crisis, the emergingnations, globalization, financialization, political Islam, Eurozoneimplosion—are related in a coherent, historically based, account. Changes in ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Beyond US Hegemony

    Assessing the Prospects for a Multipolar World

    by Samir Amin ...
    In this major new work - the result of a lifetime of intellectual engagement - one of the developing world's most famous thinkers reflects on the times we live in. He argues that US hegemony has reached a dangerous new level under George Bush Jr, and that the US President's hubristic militarism will both lead to a never-ending cycle of wars and block all hopes of social and democratic progress, ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Capitalism in the age of globalization

    The management of contemporary society

    by Samir Amin ...
    Samir Amin remains one of the world's most influential thinkers about the changing nature of North-South relations in the development of contemporary capitalism. In this highly prescient book, originally published in 1997, he provides a powerful analysis of the new unilateral capitalist era following the collapse of the Soviet model, and the apparent triumph of the market and globalization. Amin's ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Eurocentrism

    by Samir Amin ...
    Since its first publication twenty years ago, Eurocentrism has become a classic of radical thought. Written by one of the world's foremost political economists, this original and provocative essay takes on one of the great "ideological deformations" of our time: Eurocentrism. Rejecting the dominant Eurocentric view of world history, which narrowly and incorrectly posits a progression from the ... Read more

    $9.79 USD

  • The Liberal Virus

    Permanent War and the Americanization of the World

    by Samir Amin ...
    Samir Amin's ambitious new book argues that the ongoing American project to dominate the world through military force has its roots in European liberalism, but has developed certain features of liberal ideology in a new and uniquely dangerous way. Where European political culture since the French Revolution has given a central place to values of equality, the American state has developed to serve ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Three Essays on Marx’s Value Theory

    by Samir Amin ...
    In this slim, insightful volume, noted economist Samir Amin returns to the core of Marxian economic thought: Marx’s theory of value. He begins with the same question that Marx, along with the classical economists, once pondered: how can every commodity, including labor power, sell at its value on the market and still produce a profit for owners of capital? While bourgeois economists attempted to ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism

    by Samir Amin ...
    Out of early twentieth-century Russia came the world’s first significant effort to build a modern revolutionary society. According to Marxist economist Samir Amin, the great upheaval that once produced the Soviet Union has also produced a movement away from capitalism – a long transition that continues even today. In seven concise, provocative chapters, Amin deftly examines the trajectory of ... Read more

    $18.59 USD

  • Empire of chaos

    Translated by W.H. Locke Anderson

    by Samir Amin ...
    We all live on a planet whose destiny we collectively determine, or so we are told. And it is undeniable that the globalization which began five centuries ago with the European conquest of the Americas has passed into a new stage during the past forty years, as a consequence of the heightened intensity of international exchanges and the global spread of the means of destruction.Shall we conclude ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Beyond us hegemony?

    Assessing the prospects for a multipolar world

    by Samir Amin ...
    The title chosen for the French edition of this book, Pour un monde multipolaire, should already be indicative of the author's political position. Yes, I do want to see the construction of a multipolar world, and that obviously means the defeat of Washington's hegemonist project for military control of the planet. In my eyes it is an overweening project, criminal by its very nature, which is ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Re-reading the postwar period

    An Intellectual Itinerary

    by Samir Amin ...
    This fascinating history of ideas presents a theoretical overview of each new stage of the past half-century by an outstanding intellectual, grounded in a wide knowledge of economic theory and the practical problems of transforming post-colonial societies. Beginning in the 1960s, Samir Amin was one of a handful of economists who challenged the « development » ideology that dominated universities, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Arab world: Roots and insights of the crisis

    by Samir Amin ...
    This book explores the causes and trends of the current crisis of the domination system in the Arab world. The Member President of the World Forum for Alternatives invites its authors —outstanding academics from the region— to present an approach to the dynamics of social movements, the challenges of an alternative regional integration, political Islam, and the always complex relationships between ... Read more

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