The Struggle for Development and Democracy: A General Theory: 2 - Brossura

Olsaretti, Alessandro

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ISBN 13: 9798888902417

Casa editrice: Haymarket Books, 2024

Riassunto

How did imperialist elites build their power? The Struggle for Development and Democracy begins to answer this pressing question.

In this rousing study, Alessandro Olsaretti argues that we need significantly new theories of development and democracy to answer the problem posed by neoliberalism and the populist backlash, namely, uneven development and divisive politics heightened by the 9/11 attacks.

This volume proposes a general theory of development and democracy, as part of a unified theory of power, emphasizing that development needs markets, civil society, and the state, and also the proper networks and interactions amongst markets, civil society, and the state. Imperialism undermines these interactions, and turns countries into providers of cheap land or labour. This book begins to sketch the mechanisms at work that facilitate this process.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Alessandro Olsaretti is an independent researcher in Montreal. He has published articles in Critical Sociology, the Journal of Classical Sociology, and Historical Materialism. He has also worked on Ottoman history, social history, and the history of social and political thought, and has published in the Radical History Review, Social History, and the International History Review. Outside academia, he has worked as a database analyst in the finance sector, development sector, and fundraising sector, and has published a novel titled The Caravaggio Code. He is working on a series of essays titled Towards a Humanist Social Science.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Haymarket Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2024
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 13: 9798888902417
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 481
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile