Abstract. The neoliberal approach taken to the transition from socialism capitalism in six former Yugoslav republics has revealed its weaknesses all spheres of economic activities, including food production. These countries have lost sovereignty with respect regulating important national policy areas like trade and Liberalisation adversely affected economies by destroying many small-scale farme...

Robert A. Dahl was born in 1915, graduated from the University of Washington and wrote his doctoral dissertation at Yale University; its title, Socialist Programs and Democratic Politics: An Analysis, opened his research agenda. As he later recalled: “I began it a few weeks after the signing of the Nazi-Soviet Pact in Moscow... I turned to the final chapters during the invasion of Norway, compl...

Positive psychology is influencing educational policy and practice in Britain and North America. This article reveals how this psychological discourse and its offshoot school-based training programs, which stress happiness, self-improvement and well-being, align with an emergent socioeconomic formation: cognitive capitalism. Three key points are made. First, there is an elective affinity betwee...

From the middle of the 19 century until the last decade of the 20, the Marxist tradition provided the most systematic body of ideas and social theory for radical critics of capitalism as an economic system and social order. Even those critics of capitalism who did not directly identify with Marxism relied heavily on Marxist ideas about class, exploitation, commodification, the state, ideology. ...

Dealing with the periodisation and current development of capitalism, this paper starts with a theoretical and historical assessment of imperialism in its Leninist conception. It is argued that the current developments and the rising globalisation of capitalism lead to a dialectical supersession of imperialism. Based on contemporary economic conditions and the current discussion regarding inter...

(NLR 146), Fredric Jameson argues that pastiche, rather than parody, is the appropriate mode of postmodernist culture. ‘Pastiche’, he writes, ‘is, like parody, the imitation of a peculiar mask, speech in a dead language; but it is a neutral practice of such mimicry, without any of parody’s ulterior motives, amputated of the satiric impulse, devoid of laughter and of any conviction that alongsid...

Humans are exploiting the Earth in an unsustainable manner, which is accelerating both environmental degradation and loss of biodiversity. Moreover, owing to global climate change, the rates of deterioration and extinction will probably increase in the near future. The scientific community has been highly sensitive to this alarming development and increased the number of baseline and ecological...

Abstract This chapter traces the relationship between the emergence of the current growth paradigm and the development of capitalism. It argues that economic growth is a fairly recent phenomenon which is inherently linked to the emergence of capitalism in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It argues that economic growth in capitalism is inevitable, since this economic system is oriented ...