{"product_id":"does-capitalism-have-a-future-immanuel-wallerstein-9780199330850","title":"Does Capitalism Have a Future?","description":"In \u003cem\u003eDoes Capitalism Have a Future?\u003c\/em\u003e, a global quintet of distinguished scholars cut their way through to the question of whether our capitalist system can survive in the medium run. Despite the current gloom, conventional wisdom still assumes that there is no real alternative to capitalism. The authors argue that this generalization is a mistaken outgrowth of the optimistic nineteenth-century claim that human history ascends through stages to an enlightened equilibrium of liberal capitalism. All major historical systems have broken down in the end, and in the modern epoch several cataclysmic events-notably the French revolution, World War I, and the collapse of the Soviet bloc-came to pass when contemporary political elites failed to calculate the consequences of the processes they presumed to govern. At present, none of our governing elites and very few intellectuals can fathom a systemic collapse in the coming decades. While the book's contributors arrive at different conclusions, they are in constant dialogue with one another, and they construct a relatively seamless-if open-ended-whole. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten by five of world's most respected scholars of global historical trends, this ambitious book asks the most important of questions: are we on the cusp of a radical world historical shift?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Immanuel Wallerstein, Randall Collins, Michael Mann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0199330859\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199330850\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/18\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2014","brand":"Immanuel Wallerstein","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43981494649087,"sku":"9780199330850","price":40.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1e27022b-9347-434b-b571-ec39d7d47769.jpg?v=1683255912","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/does-capitalism-have-a-future-immanuel-wallerstein-9780199330850","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}