Richard Westra
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 433587 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Richard Westra |
| PRENOMES | Richard |
| SOBRENOME | Westra |
| ASSINATURA | WESTRA R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Nagoya University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1586-2258 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 117 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 7 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1996 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Market Society as a Liberal Utopia
In this commentary I examine The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time by Karl Polanyi. It is maintained that Polanyi’s book is exemplary for four specific reasons. One is its detailed historical exploration of capitalism’s origins and the non-market principles of human economic life that preceded it. A second reason is the way liberal ideologues were blinded to the utopian nature of their global, self-regulating ma…
Marxism and Capitalism Forever
The Rare Earths Era
The Political Economy of Post-Capitalism
Westra explores a nuanced literature on post-capitalism which claims that instead of constituting the end of history or ending in its supplanting by socialism, capitalism has transmuted into something else. Foci of this literature ranges from questions of financial system and technological change through evidence of shifting class contours metastasizing a more predatory constellation. In exposing the dire consequences for humanity of capitalist u…
Crack-Up Capitalism
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Our Lives in Their Portfolios
Banques, bulles et profits
Présentation Ancien professeur à l’université de Nagoya (Japon), l’économiste canadien Richard Westra est actuellement professeur à l’Institut de sciences politiques de l’université d’Opole (Pologne) et professeur invité à l’université de Macau. Comme Robert Albritton, Makoto Itoh et Thomas Sekine, Westra est fortement influencé par l’économiste japonais Kozo Uno (1887-1977). Dans la suite des débats sur la transition du féodalisme au capitalisme…
Rescuing Marx from a Ship of Fools
When Marx refers to his Capital as the founding work of a new science, what he is adverting to is the fact of his science uncovering a unique ontological object in the social world with peculiar causal properties which demand a specific set of epistemological and methodological resources to capture in theory and, on that basis, to explain how that object operates and what it does in open systems of the world. Over the history of Marxism, as a bod…
The Question of Socialism in China
Heady days of the Soviet revolution mooted questions of the contours of socialism. However, following World War II, questions of socialism would reappear on the Left agenda as indications spread of the Soviet Union not living up to Marx’s sketches of what a socialist society should look like. Following the Soviet collapse, the global Left was forced to both rethink basic questions of socialism and consider whether other societies self-identifying…
East Asia in the Global Economy
As Marxism and socialism pass through watershed years it is important to reflect on the abiding questions of Marxist theory and empirical analysis. This article takes up this task in the context of East Asia under the impetus of globalisation and neo-liberalism, introducing a collection of five articles collected in the special issue. The article shows that questions Marx posed about the global economy more than a century ago remain prescient and…
Periodizing Capitalism and Capitalist Extinction
"This book offers the first systematic exposition and critique of the major approaches to periodizing capitalism, bringing to bear both deep rooted theoretical questions and meticulous empirical analysis to grapple with the seismic economic changes capitalism has experienced over the past 150 years. Westra asks why – despite the anarchic and crises tendencies captured in radical analyses – capitalism manages to reload in a structured stage that r…
Introduction
An Unoist perspective on the agrarian question in capitalist development
This article revisits the agrarian question and the related problematic of so-called unfree labor through the prism of two contending approaches to Marxist theory. In highlighting the limitations of the received approach, the conceptual infrastructure of which is pushed to the limit in the face of seismic shifts in the world economy, the article draws on the Uno approach to Marxist theory to examine the case Marx makes for the role of agrarian ch…
Social Class in China Today
This article looks anew at questions of social class in China. It does this through the prism of three recent books on China dealing with class. Key problems regarding social class in China treated in the article are those of the constitution of the working class given the fact that China’s workforce is largely composed of a ‘floating population’ of migrants, and of the position of the peasantry which had emerged as the revolutionary agent of the…
Financialization and Marxism
Roy Bhaskar’s Critical Realism and the Social Science of Marxian Economics
This article supports claims that critical realism philosophy of science, as refounded in the hands of Roy Bhaskar, offers valuable knowledge enhancing insight into the advancement of Marx’s research program. However, it maintains that key principles set out by Bhaskar have not been adequately assimilated by those working with critical realism in the field of Marxist studies. When they are properly considered, they point to the necessity of recon…
A Theoretical Note on Commodification of Labour Power in China and the Global Putting-Out System
This article captures China’s role in global manufacturing through the prism of conceptualisation of the commodification of labour power in Marxist theory. It argues that modalities of China’s labour force co-optation in assembly and lower value added production for export of consumer goods to advanced economies carries more of a family resemblance with putting-out systems of the pre-capitalist era than with the commodification of labour power se…
Varieties of Alternative Economic Systems
Travels to Socialism Interrupted
The Rejuvenation of Political Economy
Local Trade and Exchange/Employment Systems (Lets) in Future Eco-sustainable Societies
A bstract All communities of practice must face questions relating to the material economic foundations of future sustainable societies. David Graeber, Karl Polanyi and Karl Marx each have produced typologies of possible types of economy, synthesised as: (1) the principle of individual reciprocity, (2) the market principle of capitalism, and (3) the planning principle of the state. I apply this synthesis to recent proposals for community change a…
China's Development
This ambitious book by Aglietta and Bai takes the reader on a journey from the Zhou Dynasty circa 1100 BC through China’s struggle to rebalance the post-socialist reform economy in the wake of the
Capitalism from Below
In their ambitious work, Victor Nee and Sonja Opper explore the institutional transformation of China’s economy in the post-1978 “reform” period. It was from that point they claim a seismic shift c
In the Tracks of Imperialism
Imperialism is subject to a seemingly ever-extending conceptual elasticity. The primary concern of this article is with the adequacy of the concept of imperialism for Marxism. It is contended that a proper understanding of the concept derives from Marxian economic analysis of capitalism. Not from oblique notions of asymmetric power of states within the international order
Exit from Globalization
Exit from Globalization moves from theory to practice: from questions of where incorrigible knowledge of substantive economic life derives and how that knowledge is put towards making a progressive, redistributive, eco-sustainable future of human flourishing. Westra discards at the outset views that the root of current economic ills is the old devil we know, capitalism. Rather, he maintains the neoliberal decades spawned a "Merchant of Venice" ec…
Phases of Capitalist Development
In this collection authors from eight different countries, representing a wide variety of academic disciplines and theoretical perspectives, investigate the differing phases of capitalist development
Korea's Developmental Alliance
Roy Bhaskar’s Critical Realism and the Social Science of Marxian Economics
This article supports claims that critical realism philosophy of science, as refounded in the hands of Roy Bhaskar, offers valuable knowledge enhancing insight into the advancement of Marx’s research program. However, it maintains that key principles set out by Bhaskar have not been adequately assimilated by those working with critical realism in the field of Marxist studies. When they are properly considered, they point to the necessity of recon…
A Theoretical Note on Commodification of Labour Power in China and the Global Putting-Out System
This article captures China’s role in global manufacturing through the prism of conceptualisation of the commodification of labour power in Marxist theory. It argues that modalities of China’s labour force co-optation in assembly and lower value added production for export of consumer goods to advanced economies carries more of a family resemblance with putting-out systems of the pre-capitalist era than with the commodification of labour power se…
In the Tracks of Imperialism
Imperialism is subject to a seemingly ever-extending conceptual elasticity. The primary concern of this article is with the adequacy of the concept of imperialism for Marxism. It is contended that a proper understanding of the concept derives from Marxian economic analysis of capitalism. Not from oblique notions of asymmetric power of states within the international order
Renewing Socialist Development in the Third World
Current global economic trends have rekindled interest in development alternatives. Competing socialist and green proposals for these development alternatives raise important questions about crafting institutional vehicles for the simultaneous realisation of popular empowerment, sustainability and poverty alleviation development goals. Much of the debate is about economic scale and the re-localising of production and consumption sundered by globa…
An Unoist perspective on the agrarian question in capitalist development
This article revisits the agrarian question and the related problematic of so-called unfree labor through the prism of two contending approaches to Marxist theory. In highlighting the limitations of the received approach, the conceptual infrastructure of which is pushed to the limit in the face of seismic shifts in the world economy, the article draws on the Uno approach to Marxist theory to examine the case Marx makes for the role of agrarian ch…
Rescuing Marx from a Ship of Fools
When Marx refers to his Capital as the founding work of a new science, what he is adverting to is the fact of his science uncovering a unique ontological object in the social world with peculiar causal properties which demand a specific set of epistemological and methodological resources to capture in theory and, on that basis, to explain how that object operates and what it does in open systems of the world. Over the history of Marxism, as a bod…
The capitalist stage of consumerism and South Korean development
The article maintains that only through the prism of analysis of the modalities and institutional architecture of accumulation in the post-Second World War stage of capitalism is it possible to adequately treat questions of causality in South Korean development or similarly, address the specific role of the capitalist state
Social Class in China Today
This article looks anew at questions of social class in China. It does this through the prism of three recent books on China dealing with class. Key problems regarding social class in China treated in the article are those of the constitution of the working class given the fact that China’s workforce is largely composed of a ‘floating population’ of migrants, and of the position of the peasantry which had emerged as the revolutionary agent of the…
The Japanese Economy in the Crossfire
In the mid-1990s the notion of “Japanisation” captured the hyper-competitive internationalisation of Japanese capital as it “embraced” East Asian economies with its production chains to engender a
Marxian economic theory and an ontology of socialism
The most enduring aspect of the economic studies of Marx is the exposition in Capital of the inner anatomy of capitalism as the limit form of what a human society should not be-that is a commodified society which abdicates the responsibility for the reproduction of human material existence to something that transcends human force. Deriving from this perspective on Capital is the position that socialism, at least in its most fundamental incarnatio…
Periodizing capitalism and the political economy of post-war Japan
1996). Periodizing capitalism and the political economy of post-war Japan. Journal of Contemporary Asia: Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 431-451
Marxism and Capitalism Forever
East Asia in the Global Economy
As Marxism and socialism pass through watershed years it is important to reflect on the abiding questions of Marxist theory and empirical analysis. This article takes up this task in the context of East Asia under the impetus of globalisation and neo-liberalism, introducing a collection of five articles collected in the special issue. The article shows that questions Marx posed about the global economy more than a century ago remain prescient and…
China's Development
This ambitious book by Aglietta and Bai takes the reader on a journey from the Zhou Dynasty circa 1100 BC through China’s struggle to rebalance the post-socialist reform economy in the wake of the
Periodizing capitalism and the political economy of post-war Japan
1996). Periodizing capitalism and the political economy of post-war Japan. Journal of Contemporary Asia: Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 431-451
A Japanese Contribution to the Critique of Rational Choice Marxism
L'A. contribue a la critique du marxisme du choix rationnel en proposant un autre paradigme de la theorie marxiste fonde sur la pensee economique du japonais K. Uno. Examinant l'analyse theorique que celui-ci entreprend du materialisme historique, de l'economie politique et du capitalisme de Marx, l'A. montre que Uno critique la reconstruction particuliere de la position marxiste que represente le marxisme du choix rationnel tel qu'il est defendu…
Phases of Capitalism and Post-Capitalist Social Change
Concomitant to the searching re-evaluation of the socialist predicament that followed in the wake of the 1989 ‘Fall of the Wall’ were discussions by Marxists over the apportioning of blame for the Soviet-style disappointments (Blackburn 1991; Cox 1991). My immediate concern here is with the directing of blame towards Karl Marx himself and a ‘Marxism’ as his theoretical progeny. To fault Marx I believe is deeply problematic, because not only did M…
Phases of Capitalist Development
In this collection authors from eight different countries, representing a wide variety of academic disciplines and theoretical perspectives, investigate the differing phases of capitalist development
Marxian economic theory and an ontology of socialism
The most enduring aspect of the economic studies of Marx is the exposition in Capital of the inner anatomy of capitalism as the limit form of what a human society should not be-that is a commodified society which abdicates the responsibility for the reproduction of human material existence to something that transcends human force. Deriving from this perspective on Capital is the position that socialism, at least in its most fundamental incarnatio…
Value and the World Economy Today
Value and the World Economy Today brings together a diverse group of globally renowned scholars of international political economy and critical economics to examine the relevance of value theory for u
Social theory, economic crisis, and the Japanese political economy
The rocketing of Japan to the forefront of world market competition in the post-war period spawned a high stakes academic debate over the wellsprings of Japan's success. As outlined by Preston in Understanding Modern Japan (hereafter UMJ), argumentation largely revolved around two basic positions. On one side were perspectives animated by so-called 'modernization theory', which viewed the post war political economy of Japan as but another confirm…
New Socialisms
Introduction Robert Albritton and Richard Westra Towards Democracy Through Socialisms Part One: Governance and Law 1. Robert Albritton Socialism and Individual Freedom 2. Marjorie Griffin Cohen Globalization's Challenge to Feminist Political Economy and the Law Part Two: Reembedding 3. Vandana Shiva Earth Democracy 4. Daniel Drache The Imperative of the Social Bond After the Triumph of Markets 5. Colin Duncan Adam Smith's Greeb Vision and the Fut…
The capitalist stage of consumerism and South Korean development
The article maintains that only through the prism of analysis of the modalities and institutional architecture of accumulation in the post-Second World War stage of capitalism is it possible to adequately treat questions of causality in South Korean development or similarly, address the specific role of the capitalist state
Sustainability and Communities of Place
Political Economy and Global Capitalism
Political Economy and Global Capitalism is a timely and unique collection by a group of esteemed authors who explore the present and future of the global political economy
Firing Back
This article reviews a cross-section of the globalisation-literature written prior to the unfolding economic crisis of 2007. It assesses the literature in terms of its apprehending of changes in capitalism and the prospects for social change that are envisioned
South KoreaDéjà Vu
US-Asia Economic Relations
Korea's Developmental Alliance
Renewing Socialist Development in the Third World
Current global economic trends have rekindled interest in development alternatives. Competing socialist and green proposals for these development alternatives raise important questions about crafting institutional vehicles for the simultaneous realisation of popular empowerment, sustainability and poverty alleviation development goals. Much of the debate is about economic scale and the re-localising of production and consumption sundered by globa…
Ordinary Economies in Japan
Reconciling Human Existence with Ecological Integrity
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The Japanese Economy in the Crossfire
In the mid-1990s the notion of “Japanisation” captured the hyper-competitive internationalisation of Japanese capital as it “embraced” East Asian economies with its production chains to engender a
Globalization
Frederick Clairmont, “The Doc,” is a member of the Journal of Contemporary Asia’s editorial board. His latest works, offered in the best tradition of radical pamphleteering, begin with an introduct
Exit from Globalization
Exit from Globalization moves from theory to practice: from questions of where incorrigible knowledge of substantive economic life derives and how that knowledge is put towards making a progressive, redistributive, eco-sustainable future of human flourishing. Westra discards at the outset views that the root of current economic ills is the old devil we know, capitalism. Rather, he maintains the neoliberal decades spawned a "Merchant of Venice" ec…
Capitalism from Below
In their ambitious work, Victor Nee and Sonja Opper explore the institutional transformation of China’s economy in the post-1978 “reform” period. It was from that point they claim a seismic shift c
In the Tracks of Imperialism
Imperialism is subject to a seemingly ever-extending conceptual elasticity. The primary concern of this article is with the adequacy of the concept of imperialism for Marxism. It is contended that a proper understanding of the concept derives from Marxian economic analysis of capitalism. Not from oblique notions of asymmetric power of states within the international order
The Rejuvenation of Political Economy
Local Trade and Exchange/Employment Systems (Lets) in Future Eco-sustainable Societies
A bstract All communities of practice must face questions relating to the material economic foundations of future sustainable societies. David Graeber, Karl Polanyi and Karl Marx each have produced typologies of possible types of economy, synthesised as: (1) the principle of individual reciprocity, (2) the market principle of capitalism, and (3) the planning principle of the state. I apply this synthesis to recent proposals for community change a…
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