French Corporate Governance in the New Global Economy: Mechanisms of Change and Hybridisation within Models of Capitalism

This article analyses the implications of the internationalisation of capital markets, and the influx of Anglo-Saxon institutional investors, for the French model of capitalism. Its central contention is that the global convergence thesis misrepresents contemporary evolutions because it pays insufficient attention to mechanisms of change within models of capitalism. Secondly, framing analysis in terms of hybridisation and fragmentation of national models, rather than convergence, offers greater explanatory purchase over the French model, constitutes a more accurate characterisation, and helps avoid the 'convergence or persistence' impasse within models of capitalism analysis. In exploring French corporate governance, it emphasises the importance of specifying the role of institutional mechanisms as transmission belts of change as a precursor to an assessment of how far shifts in international political economic context bring about changes within French capitalism. Focusing on financial market regulation regime, new legislation in corporate governance and company law, and the market for corporate control as three key potential mechanisms of change, it finds that pre-existing norms and structures endure, mediating the nature of a national political economy's articulation with the international context. Hybridisation and recombination of capitalist institutions drawn from different models provide a far more persuasive account than convergence.     

New World Order and NATO's War against Yugoslavia

The aim of this paper is to examine the main dimensions of the New World Order, which followed the collapse of "actually existing socialism," in connection to the parallel rise of the internationalized market economy. Thus, the economic dimension of the New World Order is discussed in terms of the emergence of neoliberal globalization. The political dimension is examined in terms of the parallel development of a new informal political globalization which is managed by a newly emerged transnational elite. Finally, the ideological dimension is discussed in terms of the development of a transnational ideology, a kind of ideological globalization, whose core is the doctrine of limited sovereignty. It is argued, with particular reference to the Yugoslavian case, that the three "wars" launched by the transnational elite so far (Iraq, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan) have been aimed at securing the stability of the New World Order in its economic and political dimensions, by crushing of any perceived threats against it .     

Internationalism Under Platform Capitalism: Brexit and the Organisation of UK Fast Food Workers

In October 2018, a coalition of UK trade unions and civil society organisations called a strike across the UK’s fast food sector in support of a living wage, union recognition and the end to zero‐hour contracts in the sector. This paper takes the day of action—labelled the McStrike—as a starting point for an account of the place of the EU and Brexit in the campaign for fast food rights, as well as the contrasting political standpoints adopted by the different trade unions involved in the action. Brexit is used as a prism through which to analyse aspects of Britain’s contemporary food politics, especially those pertaining to freedom of movement, workplace organisation, and the role of EU legislation in protecting workers’ rights. In exploring the international dimensions of union organisation among the UK’s fast food workers, other, more conceptual considerations regarding the changing nature of public and private food consumption and the incorporation of food‐to‐go into the gig economy are also broached.     

Kai-Fu Lee,AI Superpowers: China,Silicon Valley,and the New World Order

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如何认识当代资本主义的新变化

社会主义从空想到科学的发展,首先开始于把社会主义置于现实的基础上,就是说,开始于由把社会主义看作是某个天才头脑、理性和正义的偶然发现,变成把它看作是资本主义矛盾运动发展的必然产物;而世界社会主义运动的基本经验说明,能不能用科学的态度去认识当代资本     

全球化时代资本主义新变化的特点

整个二十世纪,资本主义发生了深刻的变化,特别是２０世纪的最后２０年,由于全球化浪潮的冲击和影响,发达资本主义世界的发展变化更为剧烈,呈现出不同于２０世纪初和中期资本主义的显著特点,也提出了一些新问题,预示了一些新趋向。研究这些新特点、新问题和新趋向,对于我们正确地理解和认识有中国特色的社会主义,稳妥地处理全球化时代的两制关系,客观地分析当今世界格局和国际形势,科学地预测世界社会主义的未来趋势和走向,有着非常重大的理论意义和现实意义。一、资本主义的新变化是由全球化造成的。２０世纪初,资本主义开始了…     

Business Representation in the UK Since 1979: the Case of Trade Associations

The article explores the impact of Conservative governments since 1979 on business representation. It concentrates on the trade association—the most common form of business organization in the UK but one which has been largely neglected in the discussion of business representation. The results of a major survey of trade associations conducted in 1994 are reported and their significance assessed in the light of three general propositions about the direction of business representation since 1979.     

当代资本主义新变化新特点研究的三个问题

从经济全球化角度看,当代资本主义的新变化势必对社会主义的现实与未来发生深刻影响.为了深入研究资本主义的新变化新特点,有必要检视当代资本主义新变化新特点的研究意义、研究现状和研究方法.