The 1990s promise to be a period of rapid political change, as old
political boundaries dissolve and new political forces emerge.
These changes throw into question our understanding of capitalism
and socialism, of the character of the nation state and of the
relationship between the economy and the state. However, these
changes are only the culmination of developments which have been
unfolding over the past two decades. The papers collected in this
volume were originally written to look behind day-to-day events so
as to understand the deeper roots of the crisis of the state in the
1970s. While subsequent developments have brought out the
superficiality of many earlier analyses of the capitalist state,
they have confirmed the incisiveness and wider relevance of the
approach to the state developed in the course of the debates within
the Conference of Socialist Economists, on which this volume
primarily draws. The book includes a comprehensive introductory
survey, which sets the contributions collected here within the
context of the wider debate. The book should be of interest to all
those concerned with understanding contemporary political
developments, as well as providing essential
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