Surviving Capitalism: How We Learned to Live with the Market and Remained Almost Human

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Anthem Press, 2005 - Business & Economics - 198 pages
Discusses the question of the extent to which the market has the power to recreate the rest of society in its own image. Neo-classical economists and radical critics alike tend to believe that markets have this power, but looking at the question in a historical perspective, it is clear that this is not the case. Individuals and social groups have been very clever in protecting themselves against encroachments by market forces. The author speculates alternative kinds of protective responses that might appear in the future and what society would be like without any kinds of protection at all. – from publisher description.
 

Contents

The Power of Markets Division of Labour
13
The European Idea of the Home
31
The Chinese Family
43
European Sects Guilds and Trade Unions
57
Japanese Business Corporations
71
Personal Thais and How They Survived the Boom
83
Versions of the European State
95
How We Survived Capitalism
123
The Coming Crisis
135
Notes
147
Bibliography and Websites
167
Index
189
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About the author (2005)

Erik Ringmar is a Professor at the National Chiao Tung Unviersity, Hsinchu, Taiwan. He is the author of 'Interest, Identity & Action' (CUP 1996), as well as many academic articles in the fields of history, international politics and sociology.