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terminal transformation in world-system theory archive/dissertation

Another estimate of the timing of future capitalist crisis is provided by world-system (W-S) theory. In earlier writing on the capitalist world-system, Wallerstein and colleagues presented a theoretical model of systemic long cycles. The core regions of the W-S in their expansive phase generate the…

—p.57 Does Capitalism Have a Future? The End of Middle-Class Work: No More Escapes (37) by Randall Collins
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the education system as hidden Keynesianism archive/dissertation archive/so478

Although educational credential inflation expands on false premises—the ideology that more education will produce more equality of opportunity, more high-tech economic performance, and more good jobs—it does provide some degree of solution to technological displacement of the middle class. Educatio…

—p.54 The End of Middle-Class Work: No More Escapes (37) by Randall Collins
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not an anti-capitalist manifesto

This book is not an anti-capitalist manifesto. Being critical of free-market ideology is not the same as being against capitalism. Despite its problems and limitations, I believe that capitalism is still the best economic system that humanity has invented. My criticism is of a particular version of…

23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism Introduction (xi) by Ha-Joon Chang
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the knowledge economy

But we are material beings and cannot live on ideas, however great the knowledge economy may sound. Morever, we have always lived in a knowledge economy in the sense that it has always been a command over superior knowledge, rather than the physical nature of activities, that has ultimately decided…

Conclusion: How to rebuild the world economy (252) by Ha-Joon Chang