This book is about the global crisis and the right to resistance, about neoliberal biopolitics and direct democracy, about the responsibility of intellectuals and the poetry of the multitude. Using Greece as an example, Douzinas argues that the persistent sequence of protests, u…
Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Bretton Woods 3. Transitions 4. The debt crisis 5. Global finance redux 6. Currency crises 7. The widening gyre 8. Fiscal follies 9. Lessons learned 10. The great recession 11. The world turned upside down.
"Between 1973 and 1980, the cost of crude oil rose suddenly and dramatically, precipitating convulsions in international politics. Conventional wisdom holds that international capital markets adjusted automatically and remarkably well: Enormous amounts of money flowed into oil-r…
El autor sostiene que la globalización puede ser una fuerza benéfica siempre y cuando nos replanteemos el modo en el que ha sido gestionada. El proceso de globalización orientado por el FMI y las organizaciones internacionales ha causado un sufrimiento excesivo a los países en d…