By John Smith
Winner of the 1st Paul A. Baran-Paul M. Sweezy Memorial Award for an unique monograph interested by the political economic climate of imperialism, John Smith's Imperialism within the Twenty-First Century is a seminal exam of the connection among the middle capitalist nations and the remainder of the area within the age of neoliberal globalization.Deploying a cosmopolitan Marxist technique, Smith starts off through tracing the construction of convinced iconic commodities-the T-shirt, the cup of espresso, and the iPhone-and demonstrates how those generate huge, immense outflows of cash from the nations of the worldwide South to transnational businesses centered within the center capitalist countries of the worldwide North.
From there, Smith attracts on his empirical findings to powerfully theorize the present form of imperialism. He argues that the middle capitalist nations desire now not depend upon army strength and colonialism (although those nonetheless take place) yet more and more may be able to extract earnings from staff within the worldwide South via marketplace mechanisms and, via aggressively favoring locations with reduce wages, the phenomenon of work arbitrage.
Meticulously researched and forcefully argued, Imperialism within the Twenty-First Century is a massive contribution to the theorization and critique of worldwide capitalism.
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