Periodizing Capitalism and Capitalist Extinction, 1st ed. 2019 Palgrave Insights into Apocalypse Economics Series

This book offers the first systematic exposition and critique of the major approaches to periodizing capitalism, bringing to bear both deep rooted theoretical questions and meticulous empirical analysis to grapple with the seismic economic changes capitalism has experienced over the past 150 years.

Westra asks why ? despite the anarchic and crises tendencies captured in radical analyses ? capitalism manages to reload in a structured stage that realizes a period of relatively stable accumulation. He further evaluates arguments over the economic forces bringing stages of capitalist development to a crashing end.

Richard Westra is International Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Macau Studies, University of Macau, China SAR. He has been a Designated Professor at the Graduate School of Law, Nagoya University, Japan and Visiting Professor at the Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University, Canada. He is Author or Editor of 17 books and scores of articles and chapters in peer reviewed outlets.

Offers a broad exploration of the progression of Marxist and critical heterodox economics on the theorizing of stages of capitalism for scholars, students, researchers, practitioners and activists

Demonstrates why the post 1980s world economic changes euphemized as neoliberalism, globalization and financialization reflect the disintegration of capitalism, vitiating all policy solutions

Hones in on the two major contemporary debate streams for capitalism