Production, Power, and World Order: Social Forces in the Making of History

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Columbia University Press, 1987 - Business & Economics - 500 pages

In this seminal study, Robert Cox offers a new approach to the study of power by identifying the connections between production, the state, and world order.

 

Contents

THE DIMENSIONS OF PRODUCTION
17
SIMPLE REPRODUCTION
35
CAPITALIST DEVELOPMENT
51
REDISTRIBUTIVE DEVELOPMENT
83
EPILOGUE TO PART 1
99
States World Orders and Production Relations
105
THE COMING OF THE LIBERAL ORDER
111
THE ERA OF RIVAL IMPERIALISMS
151
Production Relations in the Making of the Future
269
MUTATIONS IN THE SOCIAL
309
THE FORMATION OF CLASSES
355
CONCLUSIONS
399
NOTES
405
BIBLIOGRAPHY
463
INDEX
489
Copyright

PAX AMERICANA
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