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Excerpt: /372/ Reading Club: Globalisation (I)
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11 minutes
Released:
Oct 30, 2023
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On Giovanni Arrighi's Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the 21st Century
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We discuss the Introduction and Part 1 of this landmark book from 2008 and ask if Arrighi's vision of China, the West and the structure of the global economy was correct.
Points discussed:
What's at stake in thinking of East Asian growth as a renaissance, or correction of the historical blip of European ascendency?
How compelling is the account of East Asian success as a fusion of industrious and industrial revolution?
Was Arrighi right to focus on the neoconservative Project for a New American Century?
What do we think about Adam Smith's account of different classes' capacity for political action
What's at stake in the revisionist view of Adam Smith as pro-state Enlightenment thinker rather than patron saint of the free market?
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Links:
Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the 21st Century, Giovanni Arrighi, Verso (2008)
The Left Hemisphere: Mapping Critical Theory Today, Razmig Keucheyan, Verso (2010)
[Patreon Tier II & III Exclusive]
We discuss the Introduction and Part 1 of this landmark book from 2008 and ask if Arrighi's vision of China, the West and the structure of the global economy was correct.
Points discussed:
What's at stake in thinking of East Asian growth as a renaissance, or correction of the historical blip of European ascendency?
How compelling is the account of East Asian success as a fusion of industrious and industrial revolution?
Was Arrighi right to focus on the neoconservative Project for a New American Century?
What do we think about Adam Smith's account of different classes' capacity for political action
What's at stake in the revisionist view of Adam Smith as pro-state Enlightenment thinker rather than patron saint of the free market?
Subscribe at patreon.com/bungacast
Links:
Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the 21st Century, Giovanni Arrighi, Verso (2008)
The Left Hemisphere: Mapping Critical Theory Today, Razmig Keucheyan, Verso (2010)
Released:
Oct 30, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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