Year
2022
Publisher
UCL Press
Language
English
Pages
12
ISBN
978-1-80008-269-4
Last Update
23-Oct-2024
Keywords
Political Science ; Anthropology ; Sociology ; security-studies-discipline ; International Relations
How are power and economy interrelated in modern state capitalism, and why does their association contain a great deal of ambivalence? These are the major questions addressed in this book. Let us start with three different cases.
An authoritarian state controls immense resources and exercises its power at different levels of the economy. Such a state imposes effective restrictions over the activity of any counteracting interest groups and is therefore able to implement large-scale centralized reforms in the economy. However, it uses its almost monopolistic power and consolidated resources to maintain an existing order and avoid any serious transformations. Such...
