Part 1 The crisis of the growth economy: the market economy and the marketization process; the growth economy and "socialist" statism; the growth economy and the South; the generalized crisis of the capitalist growth economy. Part 2 Towards a confederal inclusive democracy: towards a new conception of democracy; a confederal inclusive democracy; from "here" to "there". Part 3 Towards a democratic rationalism: how do we justify the project for an inclusive democracy? (Part contents)
Takis Fotopoulos is a political philosopher, editor of Society & Nature/Democracy and Nature/The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy; he is also a columnist for the Athens Daily Eleftherotypia. He was previously (1969-1989) Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of North London. He is the author of Towards An Inclusive Democracy (London & New York: Cassell, 1997) which has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Italian, Greek and lately in Chinese. He is also the author of numerous books in Greek on development, the Gulf war, the neo-liberal consensus, the New World Order, the drug culture, the New Order in the Balkans, the new irrationalism, globalisation and the left, the war against 'terrorism', Chomsky and Albert, and the present multi-dimensional crisis. He is also the author of over 600 articles in English, American and Greek theoretical journals, magazines and newspapers, several of which have been translated into French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Norwegian, Chinese, Portuguese, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Polish Turkish and Arab. (see here). His latest book is The Multidimensional Crisis and Inclusive Democracy, published by the International Journal of Inclusive Democracy, (2005).
"A clear and valuable account of global developments stressing how the internationalization of markets has forced the abandonment of full employment, the weakening of the welfare state and the reduced significance of the state as such.... a high quality contribution to the genre."--Anarchist Review
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