First-Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship
Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers
The extent and irreversibility of US decline is becoming ever more obvious as America loses war after war and as one industry after another loses its technological edge. Lachmann explains why the United States will not be able to sustain its global dominance. He contrasts America's relatively brief period of hegemony with the Netherlands' similarly short primacy and Britain's far longer era of leadership. Decline in all those cases was not inevitable and did not respond to global capitalist cycles. Rather, decline is the product of elites' success in grabbing control of resources and governmental powers. Not only are ordinary people harmed,…
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- ISBN: 978-1-78873-407-3
- EAN: 9781788734073
- Produktnummer: 31587559
- Verlag: Verso Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 477 S.
- Masse: H24.2 cm x B16.4 cm x D4.1 cm 677 g
- Gewicht: 677
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