Beyond Global Capitalism
This book compiles the presentations and discussions from the international symposium “Beyond Global Capitalism” that was held with the contributions of Emmanuel Todd, Ha-Joon Chang, and other scholars in Kyoto, Japan, in 2013. The book is intended to mak
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Beyond Global Capitalism
Beyond Global Capitalism
Satoshi Fujii Editor
Beyond Global Capitalism
Editor Satoshi Fujii Resilience Research Unit and Department of Urban Management Kyoto University Kyoto, Japan
ISBN 978-4-431-55180-5 ISBN 978-4-431-55181-2 DOI 10.1007/978-4-431-55181-2
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Preface
Introduction for Beyond Global Capitalism Global capitalism (or globalism) has been increasing in power in recent years. Many scholars, economists, and policy makers paint a rosy picture of global capitalism. They believe that global capitalism provides benefits to the world by promoting global free trade and making the world economy more efficient. However, global capitalism’s growing strength has brought about various harmful effects to the people of the world. For example, advancing globalism results in so-called global money running wild, and as a consequence, we have already witnessed the Asian crisis, Lehman Shock, and recent EU crisis. At the same time, with the advancement of globalism and global companies, the North–South problem has emerged, attracting much attention. Even in developed nations, that is to say, the countries in the Northern Hemisphere, there is increasing inequality, and poverty has become a great challenge for mankind. In globalism, everything is treated within the market as it is, and so the authority of everything, except money, plummets, resulting in nihilism, a value system that believes in nothing, which then spreads throughout the world. This is because money itself does not have any intrinsic value. If and only if it were possible to exchange money with an attached value system would money have intrinsic value. Otherwise, money implies nothing. It is just empty matt
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