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  title info:
    title: Zero sum political economy
    sub title: history from antiquity to the present
  name:
    name part: Feldman, Alex M.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Stamos, Yannis
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: sz
    date issued: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xvii, 338 pages) : illustrations.
  abstract: This book offers an alternative narrative of the global history of political economy. From ancient civilizations to modern times, zero-sum logic has been a fundamental, yet often ignored, driving force behind political and economic systems worldwide. The authors reveal the contradictions within various ideologies -particularly liberalism and neoliberalism- that claim win-win scenarios while in fact relying on zero-sum principles. By examining systems from mercantilism to digital economies, the book shows how zero-sum logic underpins diverse economic and political doctrines, including authoritarianism, democracy, and policies like austerity. It combines economic history, political philosophy, historical sociology, and geopolitics in an interdisciplinary approach and comprehensive analysis. The book uncovers how zero-sum logic has historically informed both ideology and practice, challenging prevailing narratives and highlighting the paradoxes within our global economic system. The book will appeal to students, scholars, and researchers from these disciplines, interested in a better understanding of the economic dynamics that shape our world, and the need for a new, cooperative approach to global political economy.
  table of contents: Part 1: The Ancien Regime: The World until 1776 -- Chapter 1. Prologue: The Endless Finitude of the Household Regime -- Chapter 2. Law and Wealth -- Chapter 3. Feudalism and Mercantilism -- Part 2: "You know why they call it the 'American Dream'...?" (1776-1929) -- Chapter 4. The Birth of Liberal Economic Expansion -- Chapter 5. The First Failure of Liberalism -- Part 3: "...Because you have to be asleep to believe it." (1929-2008) -- Chapter 6. Nationalism, Socialism and Zero-sum Thinking -- Chapter 7. Neoliberalism -- Part 4: Refeudalization: The World since 2008 -- Chapter 8. The NeoFailure of NeoLiberalism -- Chapter 9. Unipolarity, Multipolarity and Zero-sum thinking -- Chapter 10. Epilogue: History Instructs.
  note: Alex M. Feldman, Yannis Stamos.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Economic history
  subject:
    topic: Histoire économique
  classification: HC21 .F45 2026
  classification: 330.9
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Zero Sum Political Economy
    name:
      name part: Feldman, Alex M.
    origin info:
      publisher: Cham : Springer,c2026
  related item:
    title info:
      title: World-systems evolution and global futures
  identifier: 9783032183262 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 303218326X
  identifier: 9783032183255
  identifier: 9783032183279
  identifier: 9783032183286
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: GW5XE
    record creation date: 260612
    record change date: 20260801173601.2
    record identifier: in00005789718
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng