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Jacket Description/Back: The relationship between the state and money has changed radically since the breakdown of the Bretton Woods system, as a result of factors such as the floating of exchange rates, the deregulation of international money markets, the international debt crisis of the 1980s, the continued expansion of global debt and a growing dissociation between monetary and productive accumulation. In this context it is important to reconsider the politics of 'money' and the relationship between the national state and the global economy. The contributors argue that the practical importance of monetarism and neo-liberalism in general derived not from its coherence as a doctrine but from the change in the relationship between states and international money, following the breakdown of Bretton Woods. The essays in this book are all theoretical explorations of the new politics of world money and world debt. Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributor Bio:  Bonefeld, Werner Werner Bonefeld specializes in critical political economy and social theory. He has taught at the Universities of Frankfurt and Edinburgh, and more recently he conducted post-graduate seminars at the Universities of Puebla and Buenos Aries. His work contributed to the development of the internationally recognised Open Marxism school. He is a professor in the Department of Politics at the University of York, England, and teaches a variety of topics, including State, Economy and Society and Karl Marx. His lectures at the University of Buenos Aires will be published in 2010. With Michael Heinrich he is currently completing a book on critical theory and political economy, forthcoming in German in 2010, and with Christine Achinger (Warwick) and Marcel Stoetzler (Manchester) he is editing a critical volume on Antisemitism for publication in 2011. Bonefeld is the editor of SUBVERTING THE PRESENT, IMAGINING THE FUTURE: INSURRECTION, MOVEMENT, COMMONS (2007) and REVOLUTIONARY WRITING: COMMON SENSE ESSAYS IN POST-POLITICAL POLITICS (2003), both from Autonomedia. Contributor Bio:  Holloway, John About the author: John Holloway is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Cambridge where he was Professor of Modern English from 1972 to 1982. His publications include six volumes of poetry, as well as criticism.