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English
Pluto Press (AUSTRALIA)
20 August 2015
The rise of the BRICS - a bloc of emerging economies, comprised of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, is one of the defining features of the modern global economy.

This book explores these nations, which seem to be growing at a much faster rate than the developed nations of the Eurozone and North America. Will they drag the developed world out of the economic mire? Will they force social change and innovation into the tired 'old world order'? And politically, do they herald a new dawn for democracy or do they represent a continued political repression?

This edited collection answers these questions by offering critical analysis of the rise of the BRICS economies within the framework of a predatory, exclusionary and unequal global capitalism. From Chinese oil geopolitics to the ruinous 'mega-events' in Brazil, the authors provide a new, radical way of understanding these controversial developments.
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Imprint:   Pluto Press (AUSTRALIA)
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 230mm,  Width: 150mm, 
Weight:   472g
ISBN:   9780745336411
ISBN 10:   0745336418
Pages:   320
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Patrick Bond is Senior Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He is the author of several books, including BRICS (Pluto, 2015) and Elite Transition (Pluto, 2014). Ana Garcia is Professor of International Relations at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro and associate of the Institute of Alternative Policies of the Southern Cone (PACS). She is co-editor of BRICS: An Anti-Capitalist Critique (Pluto, 2015) and Elite Transition: From Apartheid to Neoliberalism in South Africa (Pluto, 2014).

Reviews for BRICS: An Anti-Capitalist Critique

'A uniquely valuable resource written by a stellar group of authors. They pierce through every aspect of the discourse around the BRICS, showing the reality beneath the politically engineered triumphalism.' -- Alfredo Saad-Filho, Professor of Political Economy, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London ""This book is the most significant work yet published to examine these issues through a critical lens. It features essays from leading leftist scholars across the world such as Patrick Bond, Immanuel Wallerstein, Leo Panitch, William Robinson, Elmar Altvater, and Vijay Prashad, among many others ... The authors document the currently existing positions on the BRICS: from those who celebrate it, are cautious of it, to those who criticize it. It provides a useful and comprehensive overview of the current state of debate on the topic and provides a clear way to introduce the volume.' -- James Parisot, Marx & Philosophy Review of Books


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