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The Cancer Stage of Capitalism
by John McMurtry, ISBN: 0745313477
General description: To compare capitalism with a disease such as cancer is a difficult task, but McMurtry does just this with a thought provoking analysis that should be embraced.' according to Spectre
"The cancer stage of capitalism is not a metaphor. It is a rigorous description of where we are.", says Susan George
This book by John McMurtry, ISBN: 0745313477 bold new look at the recent uncontrolled spread of global capitalism, John McMurtry, professor of philosophy at the University of Guelph, develops the metaphor of modern capitalism as a cancer. Its invasive growth, he argues, threatens to break down our society's immune system and--if not soon restrained--could reverse all the progress that has been made toward social equity and stability.
On every continent, in every nation, there are indicators of profound economic and environmental collapse. From the lands of indigenous communities to the currency markets of Asia, from the ocean floors to the ozone layer, the collapse is all-encompassing and deep-reaching.
John McMurtry traces the causes of this global disorder back to the mutating assumptions of market theory that now govern the world's economy. He diagnoses the malaise as a pathologist would a biological cancer, tracking the delinked circuits of the global system's monetised growth as a carcinogenic disorder at the social level of life-organization. In the wide-lensed tradition of Adam Smith, Marx and Keynes, McMurtry cuts across academic disciplines and boundaries to penetrate the inner logic of the system's problems.
Far from pessimistic, he argues that the way out of the global crisis is to be found in an evolving substructure of history which provides a common ground of resolution across ethnic and national divisions. Reaching beyond conventional textbooks, this fascinating study offers a new paradigm which is accessible to intelligent citizens the world over.
John McMurtry is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Guelph and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His articles in philosophy, economics and politics have been published across the world and his analyses of transnational trade and investment treaties are internationally known. His recent books include Unequal Freedoms: The Global Market as an Ethical System (1998). He is the author of the forthcoming Value Wars (Pluto Press 2002)
This book presents holistic and deep-structural analysis of the global market and emerging crisis written within the tradition of the 'grand theme', from an entirely original standpoint. The Cancer Stage of Capitalism employs a cross-disciplinary approach, connecting levels of the world disorder with clear arguments combining shocking diagnosis of the world malaise with rigorous argument.
'To compare capitalism with a disease such as cancer is a difficult task, but Mcmurtry does just this with a thought provoking analysis that should be embraced.' Spectre
On every continent, in every state, there are indicators of profound economic and environmental collapse. From the lands of indigenous communities to the currency markets of Asia, from the ocean floors to the ozone layer, the collapse is all-encompassing and deep-reaching. John Mcmurty traces the causes of this global disorder back to the economy. He diagnoses the malaise as a pathologist would a biological cancer, tracking the delinked circuits of the global system's monetised growth as a carcinogenic disorder at the social level of life-organization. In the wide-lensed tradition of Adam Smith, Marx and Keynes, Mcmurty cuts across academic disciplines and boundaries to penetrate the inner logic of the system's problems. Far from pessimistic, he argues that the way out of the global crisis is to be found in an evolving substructure of history which provides a common ground of resolution across ethnic and national divisions. Reaching beyond conventional textbooks, this fascinating study offers a new paradigm which is accessible to intelligent citizens the world over.
John Mcmurtry is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Guelph and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. His articles in philosophy, economics and politics have been published across the world, and his analyses of transnational trade and investment treaties are internationally known. His recent books include Unequal Freedoms: The Global Market as an Ethical System. |
