"This book is intended to annoy and provoke..." A distinguished economist, and a seasoned heretic, Meghnad Desai has spent most of his like as an advocate of the Left. This book is the culmination of a period of reassessment, initiated by the challenge of Thatcherism, the collapse of the Soviet system, and the British Labour Party's Embrace of market-driven politics, which has ...(展开全部)

In this provocative and enthusiastically revisionist book, the distinguished economist Meghnad Desai argues that capitalism’s recent efflorescence is something Karl Marx anticipated and indeed would, in a certain sense, have welcomed. Capitalism, as Marx understood it, would only reach its limits when it was no longer capable of progress. Desai argues that globalization, in bri...(展开全部)

"This book is intended to annoy and provoke..." A distinguished economist, and a seasoned heretic, Meghnad Desai has spent most of his like as an advocate of the Left. This book is the culmination of a period of reassessment, initiated by the challenge of Thatcherism, the collapse of the Soviet system, and the British Labour Party's Embrace of market-driven politics, which has ...(展开全部)

In this provocative and enthusiastically revisionist book, the distinguished economist Meghnad Desai argues that capitalism’s recent efflorescence is something Karl Marx anticipated and indeed would, in a certain sense, have welcomed. Capitalism, as Marx understood it, would only reach its limits when it was no longer capable of progress. Desai argues that globalization, in bri...(展开全部)

作者簡介 強納森．坦伯Jonathan Tepper 倫敦總體經濟研究機構Variant Perception的創辦人，該機構的服務對象為避險基金和高資產客戶，坦伯曾任美國銀行（Bank of America）自營交易部門副總裁。 坦伯在北卡羅來納大學教堂山分校（University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill）分別以最優異及優異成績取得歷史系和經濟系學士學位。他在牛津大學（Oxford University）取得當代史碩士學位，且為羅德獎學金得主（Rhodes Scholar）。 坦伯是《Endgame終結大債時代》與《Code Red紅色警戒：危機下的財富生存之道》兩書的共同作者。 丹妮絲．赫恩Denise Hearn Variant Perception公司業務發展部主管。她擁有貝勒大學（Baylor Un...(展开全部)

Michael Burawoy has studied industrial workplaces in different parts of the world -- Zambia, Chicago, Hungary and Russia -- through participant observation. In his different projects he has tried to cast light -- from the standpoint of the workplace -- on the nature of postcolonialism, on the organization of consent to capitalism, on the peculiar forms of working class consciou...(展开全部)

麦克·布洛维（Michael Burawoy，1947—）加州大学伯克利分校社会学系教授，著名的马克思主义社会学家、劳动研究专家、工厂民族志实践者。曾任美国社会学学会会长、国际社会学会会长。布洛维曾在赞比亚的矿厂、东欧的工厂、美国的车间进行长期和深入的参与式观察，发展了“拓展个案法”，提出“全球民族志”的概念。作为马克思主义者和质性研究的实践者，布洛维凭卓越的学术能力和传奇的工厂经验，在美国社会学界获得了赞誉。近年来，他致力于在世界各地推广公共社会学，呼吁学界与公众不断对话以推动社会发展。代表作品有《制造同意》《公共社会学》《拓展个案法》《全球民族志》等。

大卫·哈维，纽约研究所城市大学著名的人类学教授。他以前曾是约翰斯-霍普金斯大学的地理学和人类学教授，及牛津大学的霍尔福德·麦金德地理学教授。他的著作包括《社会正义和城市》(1973)、《资本的界限》(1982)、《城市经验》(1989)、《后现代性的状况》(1989)、《正义、自然和差异地理学》(1996)和《资本的空间》(2001)。