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Shows that capitalist growth depends on rising mass incomes and on the strength of labor unions and their bargaining power
Offers a unique approach to understand the dynamics of capitalism as well as the prospects for development
Brings together Hartmut Elsenhans’ major contributions on the topics that were initially never or only published in German or French
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Contradictions of Capitalism
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Front Matter
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Rent, Marginality, and Pitfalls of Development
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Front Matter
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The International System Between Capitalism and Rent
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Postscript
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Back Matter
About this book
This book combines Hartmut Elsenhans’ ideas on the laws of motion of capitalism and his approach to world system analysis and rent theory, his thoughts on development theory and finally, international relations and the past, present, and future dynamics of the international system. Hartmut Elsenhans shows that capitalist growth depends on rising mass incomes and on the strength of labor unions and their bargaining power. This alternative approach challenges mainstream assumptions on capitalism, growth, and development by both leading leftist authors, such as David Harvey, Immanuel Wallerstein, Andre Gunder Frank or Samir Amin, as well as by neoclassical economists and western institutionalist political and social scientists. Hartmut Elsenhans offers a unique approach to understand the dynamics of capitalism as well as the prospects for development. This Festschrift brings together his major contributions on these topics that were initially never or only published in German or French.
Reviews
“One of my greatest revelations as a young scholar came when I read Hartmut Elsenhans’ 1983 article “Rising Mass Incomes as a Condition of Capitalist Growth”. I had been studying (and have remained interested in) the reformist “global Keynesian” proposals for a New International Economic Order (NIEO) proposals that had divided the UN system throughout the 1970s. I had a hunch that there was some kind of coherent economic logic that might be found underlying the NIEO effort, but had never found a way to separate the wheat from the chaff, the sensible from the incoherent policy proposals. Elsenhans’ argument gave me the first glimpse of an elegant, eminently “Keynesian” solution to the puzzle. Almost 30 years, and dozens of articles, later, Elsenhans’ much more fully developed theory still provides one of the freshest, most insightful, and coherent policy-relevant visions of the economy of our supposedly “post”-colonial world. This volume celebrates Elsenhans’ long career with a welcome introduction to his vision.”
—Craig N. Murphy, Betty Freyhof Johnson ’44 Professor, Wellesley College, USA
“Hartmut Elsenhans is the most clear-sighted political economist of our time. This book rounds out his theory of rent with a series of articles not previously available in English. Highly recommended!”— Salvatore Babones, University of Sydney, Australia
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany
Hannes Warnecke-Berger
About the editor
Hannes Warnecke-Berger is Senior Researcher at the University of Kassel, Germany. He is a political scientist and the author and editor of various books and articles, including Politics and Violence in Central America and the Caribbean (2018), and Politics and History of Crime and Violence in Central America (2017).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Development, Capitalism, and Rent
Book Subtitle: The Political Economy of Hartmut Elsenhans
Editors: Hannes Warnecke-Berger
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62605-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-62604-4Published: 03 January 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-62607-5Published: 04 January 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-62605-1Published: 02 January 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 267
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: International Relations, Political Economy/Economic Systems, Development Studies