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How climate change will affect our political theory - for better
and worse Despite the science and the summits, leading capitalist
states have not achieved anything close to an adequate level of
carbon mitigation. There is now simply no way to prevent the planet
breaching the threshold of two degrees Celsius set by the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. What are the likely
political and economic outcomes of this? Where is the overheating
world heading? To further the struggle for climate justice, we need
to have some idea how the existing global order is likely to adjust
to a rapidly changing environment. Climate Leviathan provides a
radical way of thinking about the intensifying challenges to the
global order. Drawing on a wide range of political thought, Joel
Wainwright and Geoff Mann argue that rapid climate change will
transform the world's political economy and the fundamental
political arrangements most people take for granted. The result
will be a capitalist planetary sovereignty, a terrifying
eventuality that makes the construction of viable, radical
alternatives truly imperative.
In the ruins of the 2007-2008 financial crisis, progressives the
world over clamoured to resurrect the economic theory of John
Maynard Keynes. The crisis seemed to expose the disaster of
small-state, free-market liberalization and deregulation. Keynesian
political economy, in contrast, could put the state back at the
heart of the economy and arm it with the knowledge needed to rescue
us. But what it was supposed to rescue us from was not so clear.
Was it the end of capitalism or the end of the world? For
Keynesianism, the answer is both. Geoff Mann's In the Long Run
We're All Dead is a thoroughgoing critique of Keynes for our
post-crash world, and an accessible and historically grounded
introduction to his masterwork The General Theory of Employment,
Interest, and Money. Mann argues that Keynesianism is thus modern
liberalism's most persuasive internal critique, meeting two
centuries of crisis with a proposal for capital without capitalism
and revolution without revolutionaries.
A wage is more than a simple fee in exchange for labor, argues
Geoff Mann. Beyond being a quantitative reflection of productivity
or bargaining power, a wage is a political arena in which working
people's identity, culture, and politics are negotiated and
developed. In ""Our Daily Bread"", Mann examines struggles over
wages to reveal ways in which the wage becomes a critical component
in the making of social hierarchies of race, gender, and
citizenship. Combining a fresh analysis of radical political
economy with a critical assessment of the role of white men in
North American labor politics, Mann addresses the issue of class
politics and places the problem of ""interests"" squarely at the
center of political economy. Rejecting the idea that interests are
self-evident or unproblematic, Mann argues that workers' interests,
and thus wage politics, are the product of the ongoing effort by
wage workers to focus on quality in a socioeconomic system that
relentlessly quantifies. Taking three wage disputes in the natural
resources industry as his case studies, Mann demonstrates that wage
negotiation is not simply emblematic of economic conflict over the
distribution of income but also represents critical contests in the
cultural politics of identity under capitalism.
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