Endgame: Economic Nationalism and Global Decline

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Globalisation as we know it is over. Industrial policies dismissed as obsolete for decades have been embraced by governments worldwide, geopolitical tensions match the height of the Cold War, and a resurgent far-right challenges the very foundations of contemporary democracy. In this book Jamie Merchant examines the roots of this significant shift in the global landscape, reaching further back than the commonly blamed failures post-Cold War. Instead, reviewing the global economy over the entire previous century, he shows that the great political and economic changes of the last decade are not due to a failed ideology of globalization, but to the long-term decay of the modern, market-based economic order. Endgame offers a historical perspective on the period of globalisation, illuminating the future path of the global economy and world politics.

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"A comprehensive, clear, and strikingly insightful overview of important trends of our day: resurgent economic nationalism, new forms of exploitation and imperialism, the mainstreaming of the far-right, the continuing failure to address ever-worsening environmental threats, a metastasizing shadow financial sphere, and so on. Merchant argues compellingly that these social pathologies are rooted in the stagnation of the global capitalist economy. A brilliant book."--Tony Smith, author of 'Technology and Capital in the Age of Lean Production and Beyond Liberal Egalitarianism'

Author Bio

Jamie Merchant lives in Chicago. His writing has appeared in many publications including The Brooklyn Rail, The Baffler, The Nation and In These Times, and focuses on political economy and politics.