Includes bibliographical references and index.

Empire in the age of capital / Ellen Meiksins Wood -- The rise of neoliberalism and the riddle of capital / David Harvey -- Demystifying globalization / Leo Panitch and Doug Henwood -- The global economic meltdown / David McNally -- Capitalist crisis and radical renewal / Sam Grindin, Greg Albo, and Leo Panitch -- The ecological dimensions of Marx's thought / John Bellamy Foster -- The socio-ecological crises of capitalism / Jason W. Moore -- The agrarian question and multiple paths of capitalist development in East Asia and South Africa / Gillian Hart -- Labor and capital, gender and commodification / Ursula Huws -- National capitalism in the Third World / Vivek Chibber -- Isaac Deutscher and the Old Left / Mike Davis -- Anti-imperialism and the New Left, revolt and retrenchment / Tariq Ali -- Postmodernism and the politics of expression / John Sanbonmatsu -- Anarchism, Council Communism, and life after capitalism / Noam Chomsky -- Libertarian socialism for the twenty-first century / Andrej Gruba�ci�c.

Examines capitalism, neoliberalism, and the world economy in the twenty-first century, collecting interviews with David Harvey, Ellen Meiksins Wood, Tariq Ali, Noam Chomsky, and other key thinkers and political economists who discuss various economic and ecological crises.

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