La «memorabile alleanza» tra il potere del denaro e il potere delle armi nella teoria generale di Giovanni Arrighi (The «memorable alliance» between the power of money and the power of sword in Giovanni Arrighi's general theory)

Bruno Settis
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Bruno Settis: Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa - Centre d’Histoire de Sciences Po, Paris

Il Pensiero Economico Italiano, 2015, vol. 23, issue 1, 122-136

Abstract: A «memorable alliance», in Max Weber’s words, quoted by Giovanni Arrighi, was established in the latter half of the xv century between the rising states and the sought-after and privileged capitalist powers: such an alliance was at the core of the development, in time and space, of the expansion and geometric progression capitalist world-economy. In Arrighi’s theory (now remembered mostly because it announced the decline of capitalist West and it detected its symptom in the prominence of finance), war plays a central role, which evolves and changes from the early modern age to the early xxi century. The history of the us cycle of accumulation – empire of production and, later, of finance – is marked by war: World Wars, Cold War, Reagan’s «military Keynesianism», up to Bush and Powell’s project for a «New American Century». The object of the essay is the role fulfilled by war in Giovanni Arrighi’s The Long Twentieth Century (1994) and Adam Smith in Beijing (2007)

Keywords: Accumulazione; Giovanni Arrighi; capitale; Cina; città-stato; colonialismo; commercio; Compagnie delle Indie; globalizzazione; imperialismo; imperi; Impero Britannico; sistema- mondo; Stati Uniti; storia globale; Max Weber (Accumulation; Giovanni Arrighi; British Empire; capital; China; city-state; empires; global history; globalization; India Companies; imperialism; United States; Max Weber; world-system) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B31 B51 F63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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