Climate Leviathan
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (808 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01MUPGZF6 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 276 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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This is a provocative, original and brilliant book.” —Domenico Losurdo, author of Liberalism: A Counter-History. Praise for In the Long Run We Are All Dead: “Mann treats Keynesianism as the alternative to economic collapse and/or revolution and argues that insofar as leftists have come to embrace it, they have quite explicitly given up hope for an alternative to capitalism.” —Dean Baker, author of The End of Loser Liberalism “A detailed, fast-flowing account
He is the author most recently of In the Long Run We Are All Dead: Keynesianism, Political Economy and Revolution.Joel Wainwright, associate professor at Ohio State, is author of Geopiracy and Decolonizing Development, which won the Blaut award. Geoff Mann is Director of the Centre for Global Political Economy, Simon Fraser University.
Climate Leviathan provides a radical way of thinking about how environmental change will intensify existing challenges to global order, unearthing the forces for a planetary variation on existing forms of sovereignty. How climate change will affect our political theory—for better and worseDespite all the science and summits, leading capitalist states have not managed to mitigate anything close to an adequate level of carbon emissions. Drawing on a wide range of political thought, Wainwright and Mann argue that rapid climate change will transform global political economy and our world’s basic political arrangements, leading toward a capitalist planetary sovereignty. What are the likely political-economic outcomes? Where is our warming world headed? Possibilities in the struggle for climate justice depend on our capacity to anticipate where the existing global order is likely to go. There