Beginning with the key changes brought about in the economy by advanced technology and organisational and institutional innovations, the author elucidates their impact on industrial systems, accumulation, firms and the processes of European integration. This approach enables the reader to establish the links in the conceptual jungle to real processes and to chart clearly, by eliminating chaos and chance factors, the interlocking grid of political destabilization and economic marginalization that the advance of capitalist globalization has introduced in all countries.

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BRUNO AMOROSO is Professor in European Integration and Social Cohesion in the Wider Europe (Jean Monnet Chair) at the Department of Social Sciences, Roskilde University, Denmark. He is also President of the Federico Caffe Centre, Coordinator for the European, Mediterranean and South East Asian Networks for Innovation and Co-development, and Director of the Mediterranean Project sponsored by the Italian Economic and Labour Council. Among his books are Macroeconomic Theories and Policy for the 1990s (editor with J. Jespersen), Scandinavian Perspectives on European Integration, and Welfare Society in Transition (editor with J. Jespersen).

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List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Introduction The Dynamics of Socio-Economic Formations Internationalization and Capitalism: From Dualism to Marginalization The World Economy and Capitalism: Capitalist Globalization of the Economy and Technology Capital Accumulation in the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century: the End of Development The Metamorphosis of the Firms: National, Multinational, Transnational Globalization and European Integration: Eurocentrism and Westernization Social Class and Political Power: Authors, Actors and Institution Alternative Policies to Globalization: A Polycentric View Toward Mediterranean Co-development Bibliography Index