Adam Smith in Beijing

Lineages of the Twenty-First Century

Giovanni Arrighi

• Publisher: Verso
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781789604276
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: Political Economy
• Index: Economics

In the late eighteenth century, the political economist Adam Smith predicted an eventual equalization of power between the West and the territories it had conquered. In this magisterial new work, Giovanni Arrighi shows how China's extraordinary rise invites us to reassess radically the conventional reading of The Wealth of Nations. He examines how recent US attempts to create the first truly global empire were conceived to counter China's spectacular economic success Now America's disastrous failure in Iraq has made the People's Republic of China the true winner in the US War on Terror.
China may soon become again the kind of noncapitalist market economy that Smith described, an event that will reconfigure world trade and the global balance of power.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I: Adam Smith and the New Asian Age
• Part II: Tracking Global Turbulence
• Part III: Hegemony Unraveling
• Part IV: Lineages of the New Asian Age
• Epilogue
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index