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192 pages ; 23 cm "The Great Recession has prompted many reassessments of the finance-driven economic order that achieved world dominance in the era of globalization. Yet just about every observer has focused on only two issues: why things went wrong, and what we need to do in order to return the system to stability. Virtually no one has questioned whether the system as such can continue. In Does Capitalism Have a Future?, a quintet of globally eminent scholars - Immanuel Wallerstein, Randall Collins, Michael Mann, Georgi Derluguian, and Craig Calhoun - survey the current global landscape and cut their way through to the most crucial issue of all: whether our capitalist system can survive in the medium run. Despite all its current gloom, conventional wisdom still assumes that capitalism cannot break down permanently because there is no alternative"-- "a quintet of globally eminent scholars - Immanuel Wallerstein, Randall Collins, Michael Mann, Georgi Derluguian, and Craig Calhoun - survey the current global landscape and cut their way through to the most crucial issue of all: whether our capitalist system can survive in the medium run. Despite all its current gloom, conventional wisdom still assumes that capitalism cannot break down permanently because there is no alternative. The authors shatter this assumption,and while all of the contributors arrive at different conclusions, they are in constant dialogue with one another and therefore able to construct a relatively seamless--if open-ended--whole"-- The next big turn Structural crisis, or why capitalists may no longer find capitalism rewarding Technological displacement of middle-class work and the long-term crisis of capitalism : no more escapes The end may be nigh, but for whom? What communism was What threatens capitalism now? Getting real by Immanuel Wallerstein, Randall Collins, Michael Mann, Georgi Derluguian and Craig Calhoun. Includes bibliographical references. Capitalism Capitalismo Middle class Clase media Technological innovations Forecasting Innovaciones tecnológicas Predicciones HB 501 D653 2013 330.12/2 9780199330850 (paperback) 0199330859 (paperback) 2013018969 DLC 130603 20260225184053.0 17762040 eng