Commodity - The Global Commodity System in the 21st Century

List of contents

Preface, 1. Structure. 2. Genesis. 3. Operation. 4. Crisis. 5. Control. Appendix. Bibliography. Index

About the author

Photis Lysandrou is a research professor in the Department of International Politics at City University Political Economy Research Centre (CITYPERC), UK. Previously he has taught economics at City University, Greenwich University and at London Metropolitan University, where he was Lead Professor in Economics.

Summary

This book analyses the contemporary global economic edition taking ‘commodity’ as its unit of analysis, demonstrating that the 2007-8 crisis was the first of the era of the global commodity system and arguing for the establishment of a global tax authority to control inequality and prevent a recurrence.

Additional text

'Commodity is a rich and thought-provoking analysis of capitalism in the 21st century. The book grapples with the materiality of production, forms of governance and transformations in the world of finance. It contributes to the literatures on the globalisation of production, financialisation, inequality and unequal exchange, and welfare.' Victoria Stadheim, Economic Issues
'In his excellent new book, Commodity, Photis Lysandrou deploys this method of abstraction in order to understand the heavily financialised regime of capitalism in the twenty-first century. The result is a pithy critical analysis of the ‘global commodity system’ and its various developmental tendencies. The book deftly charts how financialised capitalism rose to ascendance and how it has come to shape the world economy today.' Scott Lavery, LSE Review of Books

Product details

• Authors: Photis Lysandrou, Photis (City University Lysandrou
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781138338609
• ISBN: 978-1-138-33860-9
• No. of pages: 102
• Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy; Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Business & Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, 21st Century, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Economic theory & philosophy, International Economics, Political Economy, Economic & financial crises & disasters, Economic and financial crises and disasters, Economic theory and philosophy