Much agree with John's suggestion to read Arrighi. Others will certainly suggest Brenner's _Turbulence..._ work or David Harvey's recent books.
That said, the person who seemed to get it most right at the time was Andre Gunder Frank with his two books: _Crisis: In the World Economy_ New York: Holmes & Meier, London: Heinemann 1980 and _Crisis: In the Third World_ New York: Holmes & Meier, London: Heinemann 1981 Michael Hudson's _Super Imperialism_, recently re-published, was also important.... JG Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:12:31 -0800 From: John Gulick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: it's about time! Yoshie wrote: >Things were beginning to go downhill in the then-existing socialist >bloc just about the same time, but I have yet to read a really >interesting narrative of economic history that takes a truly global >view of the seventies. Have you read Arrighi's _The Long Twentieth Century_? With much success he attempts to connect all the dots. Although perhaps the empirical and analytic coverage afforded the petrodollar loan guzzling NIC's far outdoes that of the then socialist bloc formally defined. (But of course market socialist Yugoslavia and other East Bloc countries did a lot of said guzzling to compernsate for and obscure labor productivity problems, yes?) JG --Dr. Jeff Sommers [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 215 693 1124 --Stockholm School of Economics in Riga (SSE Riga) Visiting Professor --Silk Roads Project, Co-Director --Center for European & Transition Studies, University of Latvia, Fellow --Institute for Globalization Studies, Moscow, Fellow
