Overview

"Rapid and sustained growth in the twenty-first-century global economy of large developing economies including Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, has captivated policy-makers and popular business press pundits alike. The coining of the new acronym BRICS and widespread adoption in international economics discourse of the designation ""emerging markets"" is symptomatic of that interest. The Political Economy of Emerging Markets situates the BRICS phenomena in the global economic context of advanced economies continuing to languish in recession and hovering over a deflationary abyss several years after the meltdown. A key question this volume seeks to answer is whether the BRICS and so-called ""emerging market"" phenomenon is really the new miracle it is presented as, offering new or modified varieties of reloaded capitalist development to the world, or yet another mirage. Written by ten leading global experts, this book answers the tough questions over BRICS and emerging markets potentially realizing new varieties of reloaded capitalism. It is not only international and interdisciplinary but uniquely multiperspectival. Theories framing chapters are not of one genre, but generate theoretical debate at the frontier of knowledge in political economy along with nuanced empirical analysis which flows from it. This book is of great importance to those who study political economy, development economics and international political economy."

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Author:   Richard Westra (Nagoya University, Japan)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.498kg
ISBN:  

9781138121225

ISBN 10:   1138121223
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   14 March 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part I Development theory from capital to capitalist development and the twenty-first-century global economy in crisis 1 From development to BRICS: the policy magical mystery tour Richard Westra Part II BRICS up close 2 Current paths of development in the Southern Cone: deindustrialization and a return to the agro-export model Paul Cooney Seisdedos 3 A BRIC despite itself: sustained growth versus neoliberalism in India Radhika Desai 4 Political economy of China: from socialism to capitalism, and to eco-Socialism? Minqi Li 5 The BRICS re-scramble Africa Patrick Bond Part III Varieties of emerging markets in the global economy 6 Capitalism, contradiction and the onward march of variegated neoliberalism in Southeast Asia Toby Carroll 7 Thailand: sick man of Asia? Sompong Sirisoponsilp and Ake Tangsupvattana 8 Turkey: a conventional peripheral agent of neoliberal globalization Yonca Özdemir 9 The persistence of neoliberalism since the Arab uprisings: the cases of Egypt and Tunisia Angela Joya

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Richard Westra is Designated Professor in the Graduate School of Law, Nagoya University, Japan. He is author or editor of 14 books. His work has been published in numerous international peer reviewed journals.

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