Exiting Capitalist Globalisation
Westra's Unoist Approach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3986276 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John R Bell (Seneca Polytechnic, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 299-311 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary Asia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-2336 • E-ISSN: 1752-7554 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00472336.2017.1283761 |
| OpenAlex | W2586538976 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
Published in 2015, Richard Westra’s Exit from Globalization employs a variation of Kozo Uno’s levels of analysis approach to the comprehension of economic life under capitalism and beyond. The approach has three elements. First, a dialectical pure theory that simultaneously exposes both the logic that capital and its impersonal society-wide competitive market employed in its largely successful attempt to regulate and reproduce material/substantive/real economic life and capital-labour relations during liberal capitalism and the economic norms that all historical societies must observe by whatever means so as to continue to reproduce material economic life. Second, a stages theory (mercantilism, liberalism and capitalist imperialism) of capitalism’s historical development. Finally, empirical studies of aspects of historical capitalism, informed by the pure and stages theories and a knowledge of general economic norms, may be conducted. Following Albritton, Westra advances a theory of a final fourth stage of capitalism that Uno, who died in 1977, never contemplated. He theorises the ongoing disintegration of consumerism and capitalism itself in the present era. In fleshing out a model advanced by Sekine, Westra theorises the functioning of a vibrantly democratic, partially relocalised eco-socialism
Economic system · Economics · Economy · Globalization · Political economy · Political science · Law · Political Economy and Marxism
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |