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Book SynopsisWill China be the epicentre of the collapse of Capitalism?
Trade Review'Written with a breadth that goes beyond most economic analyses, encompassing the interconnected economic and ecological crises of our time. An important, timely, and bound to be influential work' -- John Bellamy Foster, Profesor of Sociology, University of Oregon, editor of Monthly Review, and coauthor (with Robert W. McChesney) of The Endless Crisis: How Monopoly-Finance Capital Produces Stagnation and Upheaval from the USA to China
'Thought-provoking... accessible... Highly recommended' -- CHOICE
'Clear and concise ... Minqi Li explains the importance of Chinese economic dynamics to contemporary global capitalist stability and why the growing class and ecological contradictions undermining Chinese capitalism likely means we are heading into a new period of sustained global crisis. The need for system change has never been clearer' -- Martin Hart-Landsberg, Professor of Economics at Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon
'Powerful' -- Counterfire
Table of Contents1. China and the Twenty-First-Century Crisis
2. China: Classes and Class Struggle
3. Economic Crisis: Cyclical and Structural
4. The Capitalist World System: The Limit to Spatial Fix
5. The Next Economic Crisis
6. Climate Change, Peak Oil and the Global Crisis
7. The Unsustainability of Chinese Capitalism
8. The Transition
Appendices
Bibliography
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