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Crisis in the Global Economy

Financial Markets, Social Struggles, and New Political Scenarios

Andrea Fumagalli (University of Pavia) Sandro Mezzadra (University of Bologna) Antonio Negri Jason Francis Mc Gimsey

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Italian
Semiotext (E)
09 April 2010
Exit strategies from the current financial crisis that may lead us toward a new horizon of constructing the common.

Crisis in the Global Economy is the latest and most innovative collective reflection on the state of global capitalism, developed in the mobile ""multiversity"" of the UniNomade network of international researchers and activists during the months immediately following the first signals of the current financial and economic crisis. It constitutes the first organic and interdisciplinary attempt to analyze a crisis that is not merely financial in nature but implicates globalization and neoliberal capitalism. Crisis in the Global Economy begins with the recognition that the current financial crisis is a systemic crisis of the entire capitalistic system as it has been developing since the 1890s. Taking as its premise that today's financial markets are the pulsing heart of cognitive capitalism, financing the activity of accumulation, Crisis in the Global Economy shows how the flow of capital rewards production that exploits knowledge and controls spaces beyond traditional business. The ineffectiveness of the extraordinary economic measures taken by single nation-states over the past few months demonstrates that this crisis is of a completely different order. A financial crisis that affects the ""real economy"" shows that financialization is one of the most recent and perverse articulations of capitalism. The contributions to Crisis in the Global Economy invite us to consider exit strategies from the current crisis-strategies that may lead us toward a new horizon of constructing the common.
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Imprint:   Semiotext (E)
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   1
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 21mm
Weight:   454g
ISBN:   9781584350873
ISBN 10:   1584350873
Series:   Semiotext(e) / Active Agents
Pages:   304
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Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Andrea Fumagalli is Professor in the Departments of Political Economy and Economics at the University of Pavia. Sandro Mezzadra teaches in the Department of Political Science in the University of Bologna. Antonio Negri is a philosopher, essay writer, and teacher. A political and social activist in the 1960s and 1970s in Italy, he has taught political science for many years and has written numerous books on political philosophy, including Marx beyond Marx, The Savage Anomaly, Insurgencies, The Porcelain Workshop- For a New Grammar of Politics (Semiotext(e)), and, in collaboration with Michael Hardt, Empire, Multitude, and Commonwealth. Christian Marazzi was born in Lugano, Switzerland, in 1951. He obtained a degree in Political Science at the University of Padova, a master's degree at the London School of Economics and a doctoral degree in Economics at the City University of London. He has taught at the University of Padova, the State University of New York, and at the University of Lausanne. He is currently Director of Socio-Economic Research at the Scuola Universitaria della Svizzera Italiana. Andrea Fumagalli is Professor in the Departments of Political Economy and Economics at the University of Pavia.

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