Papers by Martin Hartlandsberg
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Review of Radical Political Economics, 2000
This paper evaluates the five most popular analytical approaches to the East Asian "miracle" econ... more This paper evaluates the five most popular analytical approaches to the East Asian "miracle" economies: neoliberal, structural-institutional, "flying geese," Greater China, and dependency perspectives. Distinguishing between national and regional development visions, we specify the key forces that each approach sees driving industrialization and growth, as well as the most likely barriers each sees to continued growth and development in East Asia. In pointing out the main analytical shortcomings of the five perspectives in light of the East Asian crisis, we sketch some key elements of a Marxist framework capable of overcoming these difficulties in a politically useful way.
Journal of Contemporary Asia, 2003
... Therefore, successful catch-up required activist policies by a strong state, working alone an... more ... Therefore, successful catch-up required activist policies by a strong state, working alone and ... the basic substance of technology, and the forms of technological change deemed progressive ... are uncritically taken as given and unrelated to capitalism's fundamental class relations. ...
Historical Materialism, 2003
eld each reviewed our book, Development, Crisis, and Class Struggle: Learning from Japan and East... more eld each reviewed our book, Development, Crisis, and Class Struggle: Learning from Japan and East Asia, in the recent Historical Materialism symposium on 'East Asia After the Crisis.' 1 While applauding our 'explicitly Marxist perspective,' both were critical of our efforts on theoretical and political grounds. In this reply we respond to their criticisms. Perhaps most surprising to us, neither review seemed informed by the challenge that motivated and shaped our work. In brief, we were concerned by the fact that the East Asian growth experience had led growing numbers of progressive economists and activists to reject Marxism (and its focus on class exploitation, uneven development, and class struggle), in favour of more mainstream theories of development. As a result, their activities were increasingly
Historical Materialism, 2001
Revenue increased by 23.8% and EBITDA by 9.1%, with strong development in Q4 • V&R exceeded expec... more Revenue increased by 23.8% and EBITDA by 9.1%, with strong development in Q4 • V&R exceeded expectations, integration on track • Net profit grew by 4.8% despite V&R integration costs • eBook sales grew organically by 20% and including V&R by 33.5% • Proposed dividend of EUR 0.90 per (certificate) of ordinary share Business Case Distribution Reporting & Finance systems Workflows ERP Integration & Relaunch
Critical Asian Studies, 2005
From the editors: In 2005 Monthly Review Press (New York) published a book entitled China and Soc... more From the editors: In 2005 Monthly Review Press (New York) published a book entitled China and Socialism: Market Reforms and Class Struggle, written by Martin Hart-Landsberg (a coeditor of Critical Asian Studies) and Paul Burkett.(The content of the book had appeared ...
Critical Asian Studies, 2015
This article argues that capitalist globalization is largely responsible for creating or intensif... more This article argues that capitalist globalization is largely responsible for creating or intensifying many of our most serious economic and social problems. It first describes the forces that drove core country transnational corporations to create a complex system of crossborder production networks. It then maps the resulting new international division of labor, in which Asian countries, especially China, import primary commodities from Latin American and sub-Saharan African countries to produce exports for core countries, especially the United States. In core countries, globalization has led to the destruction of higher paying jobs, financialization of economic activity, and stagnation. While the new international division of labor has boosted third world rates of growth, especially in Asia, it has also left the third world with unbalanced and inequitable economies. Moreover, contradictions in the globalization process point to the spread of core country stagnation to the third world. Capitalist globalization has increased third world dependence on core country consumption while simultaneously undermining core country purchasing power. The article ends by discussing a process and program of transformation that highlights the feasibility of an alternative to global capitalism as well as the organizational capacities and institutional arrangements that must be developed if we are to realize it.
Korean Journal of Political Economy, Mar 1, 2004
China's record of rapid export-led growth has led many progressive scholars and activists to ... more China's record of rapid export-led growth has led many progressive scholars and activists to promote China as a development model whose growth...
25 años de neoliberalismo, 2008
... dentro de límites manejables el déficit comercial y el de cuenta corriente, los Estados del T... more ... dentro de límites manejables el déficit comercial y el de cuenta corriente, los Estados del Tercer Mundo, a menu-do presionados por ... avanzados» durante el periodo 1981-1996: Hong Kong (China), Malasia, México, República de Corea, Singapur, Provincia China de Taiwán y ...
Monthly Review, 2004
When the leaders of China’s Communist Party announced their program of market socialist reforms i... more When the leaders of China’s Communist Party announced their program of market socialist reforms in 1978, they argued that it was necessary to overcome the country’s growing problems of economic stagnation and waste caused by the Mao era’s overly centralized state systems of planning and production. China’s rapid growth and industrial transformation during the 1980s encouraged many on the left, both inside and outside of China, to view market socialism as an attractive vehicle for achieving sustained growth, an egalitarian distribution of goods and services, and new forms of democratic participation in economic decision making. This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website , where most recent articles are published in full. Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
Monthly Review, 2004
China’s post-reform rapid economic rise has led many progressives to view the country as a develo... more China’s post-reform rapid economic rise has led many progressives to view the country as a development model whose experience proves that there are viable alternative paths to growth within the existing capitalist world system. Significantly, although not widely acknowledged by most of these progressives, many mainstream economists have also embraced China as a development model. This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website , where most recent articles are published in full. Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.
Journal of Contemporary Asia, 1998
... socialist development visions have never been more in tune with the socio-economic and politi... more ... socialist development visions have never been more in tune with the socio-economic and political ... had also recognized that the looseness of mo-netary and financial conditions in the SIVA ... Po-litical democratization was now seen as a condition of market liberalization and vice ...
Historical Materialism, 2006
... | Ayuda. China, el mercado y la economía asiática. Autores: Martin Hart-Landsberg; Localizaci... more ... | Ayuda. China, el mercado y la economía asiática. Autores: Martin Hart-Landsberg; Localización: Poderes emergentes en Asia : rupturas y continuidades en la economía-mundo, (volumen II) : Monthly Review, selecciones en castellano, Vol. 2, 2006, ISBN 84-88711-89-1 , pags. ...
Economic Geography, 2008
: According to most development economists, the economic “miracle” of the ASEAN‐3, following the ... more : According to most development economists, the economic “miracle” of the ASEAN‐3, following the earlier experiences of Japan and the Asian NIEs, demonstrates the benefits of export‐led growth. This conclusion is shared by neoliberals and structural‐institutionalists, despite disagreements over the role of state intervention. Both views are represented in increasingly influential “flying geese” theories, which credit regional economic dynamics, in particular those shaped by Japanese foreign direct investment, for the regional advance. Our critique of this perspective starts by showing how the successive waves of Japanese foreign direct investment represented responses by Japanese capital to the class‐based and competitive contradictions of Japan's accumulation process. The recent expansion of NIE‐based foreign direct investment in the ASEAN‐3 is likewise a response to the contradictions of export‐led growth, although in the NIEs' case these contradictions were accentuated by economic dependency on Japanese capital. Contrary to celebratory flying geese perspectives, we find that this hierarchical regionalization of investment and production, and resulting intensification of competitiveness pressures, does not offer sustainable improvements in work and living conditions in Japan, the NIEs, or the ASEAN‐3. However, by creating a more regionalized class structure in which core, semiperipheral, and peripheral area workers are subjected to a common set of competitiveness pressures, East Asian industrialization creates the potential for a regionalization and strengthening of worker/community resistance to capitalism.
Insurgent Sociologist, 1985
The US economy must undergo a fundamental change if it is to retain a measure of economic viabili... more The US economy must undergo a fundamental change if it is to retain a measure of economic viability let alone leadership in the remaining 20 years of this century. The goal must be nothing less than the re-industrialization of America. A conscious effort to rebuild ...
Critical Sociology, 1985
Martin Hart-Landsberg it wasn't that long ago when US industry was the most productive and e... more Martin Hart-Landsberg it wasn't that long ago when US industry was the most productive and efficient in all the world, and, as a result US capital was the unchallenged ruler of a growing world capitalist system. Things have certainly changed: many European and Japanese ...
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