Important new book by David Ranney -- New World Disorder: The Decline of U.S. Power (2014)

(Important new book by David Ranney -- New World Disorder: The Decline of U.S. Power (2014)

Note by Hunter:  I've known David Ranney, as friend and colleague, for a little more than 40 years.  We taught together for a good stretch in the Graduate Program in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Iowa.  David exemplifies the best in the scholar/activist tradition.


2-7-14
For immediate release:

David Ranney's book New World Disorder: The Decline of U.S. Power  (2014)
is now available both as paperback ($12) and as an e-book ($8) on
Amazon.com. Ranney, author of Global Decisions, Local Collisions: Urban
Life in the New World Order (2003) argues that the global system that
President George H. W. Bush first called the "New World Order" is now in a
deep systemic crisis and has become a new world disorder.

The political and economic instability that rages around the world, Ranney
contends, cannot be attributed to simply a "great recession." The global
crisis that we face today is inherent in capitalism itself and has
appeared historically again and again. Ranney lays out the source of
today's "new world disorder" and explains its historical precedents. He
then raises critical questions about the future.

As the crisis deepens, players around the world are lining up to knock the
U.S. out of its self-proclaimed position as "the most powerful nation on
earth." What are some possible outcomes? Are we doomed to live through a
long period of narrow political bickering, a deteriorating environment,
declining living standards, permanent war, and government surveillance?
Will super global corporations enforce a new and possibly brutal form of
capitalism that is removed from the reach of any particular government?
Will we see the frightening emergence of 21st Century fascism? Or will we
find a way toward a global system based on liberty, equality and
environmental sustainability that aims to meet the needs of humanity and
the planet?

Table Of Contents

Preface and Overview

Chapter 1: How Our System Works (and Sometimes Doesn't)
1. Value
2. Crisis
3. Churning and Flailing

Chapter 2: Crises Past
1. Crisis and Restructuring: 1920-45
2. Crisis and Restructuring: 1960-80
3. Churning and Flailing

Chapter 3: Construction of a New World Order: 1979 - Today
1. Flexible Manufacturing
2. Flexible Locations
3. Flexible Workers and Deregulation
4. Institutionalization of the New World Order
5. Debt as Fictitious Capital
6. Debt as Fictitious Product
7. Outcomes
8. The Acceleration of Environmental Degradation

Chapter 4: The Self Destruction of the New World Order
1. Markets and the Self Destruction of the New World Order
a. Markets in Theory
b. Competition in the Real World
c. Markets Without Products
d. Phantom Derivatives Markets
e. Phantom Derivatives Markets: The Case of Housing
f. Phantom Derivatives Markets: The Case of Food
2. Government and the Self Destruction of the New World Order
a. The Reconstruction of Common Sense
b. Elections as Thought Control
c. Economic Policy
d. Militarism
e. Government, Politics and the New World Disorder

Chapter 5: Prospects

1. More Churning and Flailing
a. Global Intifada
b. Supply Side/Demand Side
c. Permanent Fiscal Crisis
d. Further Environmental Degradation
e. Permanent War and a National Security State
f. The Futile Search for "Best Practices"
2. Challenges to U.S. Domination of Global Capitalism: A Multi Polar World?
a. Can the "G's" Succeed Where U.S. Capitalism Has Failed?
b. The European Union and the Monetary Union
c. The Second Coming of Simon Bolivar
d. China and the BRICS Alliance
e. The Status of the U. S. Dollar
3. Prospects for a Newer World Order: Today's "Extractivism"
4. Prospects for a Revolutionary Global Shift
a. Prospects of a New Fascism
b. An Alternative to Fascism A Personal Statement

Glossary of Terms

References


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