Uneven Zimbabwe: A Study of Finance, Development and Underdevelopment
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This book explains development, underdevelopment, economic crisis, structural adjustment, and class formation in one of the most unequal societies in the world. Intensified uneven development in Zimbabwe is mainly due to the periodic rise of financial capital, which has occurred, historically, in the 1890s, 1920s, 1950s, and the late 1980s - early 1990s with effects evident across urban and rural space and geographical scale.
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"Patrick Bond's Uneven Zimbabwe strikes me as timely, thoroughly researched and stimulating. Anyone interested in the role of Finance capital in processes of development/underdevelopment should read it" - Giovanni Arrighi
"This book is a sweeping survey of Zimbabwe, of the intertwining of capital and citizenry, of the power of global and local finance, and of the shaping of the political and policy terrain. It is a fresh and honest analysis and certainly for many Zimbabweans, the most important book on economics and politics to date" - Tendai Biti
Robert Mugabe once complained, "There exists among the membership of ZANU (PF) a minority, but very powerful bourgeois group which champions the cause of international finance and national private capital, whose interests thus stand opposed to the development and growth of socialist and egalitarian society in Zimbabwe"
Uneven Zimbabwe examines the influence of domestic and international financial markets and financiers in uneven development in Zimbabwe, using, - and contributing to - the tools of radical political economy. Theoretically, Bond begins with criticism of classical Marxist concepts of "finance capital" for focusing on institutional characteristics and failing to grasp the underlying dynamics. Instead, as economic crisis tendencies emerge, the power of finance periodically intensifies, temporarily displacing crisis through time and space and across geographical scales. But the limits of the financial solution become evident when paper assets delink from the productive assets they are meant to represent, as well as in the role that finance plays in amplifying uneven development across different economic sectors, spaces and scales.
Uneven Zimbabwe: A Study of Finance, Development and Underdevelopment
Uneven Zimbabwe: A Study of Finance, Development and Underdevelopment,Patrick Bond,Africa World Press,0865435391,Africa - General,Business & Economics,Business/Economics,Economic Conditions,Finance,History,International - Economics,Politics - Current Events,Regional disparities,Zimbabwe
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