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Monday Oct 30, 2023
Monday Oct 30, 2023
On Giovanni Arrighi's Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the 21st Century
We discuss the Introduction and Part 1 of this landmark book from 2008 and ask if Arrighi's vision of China, the West and the structure of the global economy was correct.
Points discussed:
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What's at stake in thinking of East Asian growth as a renaissance, or correction of the historical blip of European ascendency?
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How compelling is the account of East Asian success as a fusion of industrious and industrial revolution?
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Was Arrighi right to focus on the neoconservative Project for a New American Century?
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What do we think about Adam Smith's account of different classes' capacity for political action
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What's at stake in the revisionist view of Adam Smith as pro-state Enlightenment thinker rather than patron saint of the free market?
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Links:
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The Left Hemisphere: Mapping Critical Theory Today, Razmig Keucheyan, Verso (2010)
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