state capitalism / Humanitarian Imperialism 人道的帝国主義―民主国家アメリカの偽善と反戦平和運動の実像

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A special report on state capitalism

The visible hand

The crisis of Western liberal capitalism has coincided with the rise of a powerful new form of state capitalism in emerging markets(88)

• Leader: The spread of a new sort of business in the emerging world will cause increasing problems(109)
• A brief history of state capitalism(5)
• How state enterprise is spreading(3)
• State-owned enterprises are good at infrastructure projects, not so good at innovation(1)
• State capitalism looks outward as well as inward(4)
• For all its successes, state capitalism has fatal flaws(8)

a talk with Jean Bricmont - YouTube

Jean Bricmont (born 1952) is a Belgian theoretical physicist, philosopher of science and a professor at the Université catholique de Louvain. He works on renormalization group and nonlinear differential equations.

He is mostly known to the non-academic audience for co-authoring Fashionable Nonsense (also known as Intellectual Impostures) with Alan Sokal, in which they criticise relativism in the philosophy of science.^[1] Jean Bricmont also collaborates with activist Noam Chomsky and campaigns on a variety of progressive causes.

In 2005 he published Impérialisme humanitaire. Droits de l’homme, droit d’ingérence, droit du plus fort ?, published in English as Humanitarian Imperialism in 2006.

In 2006, he wrote the preface to L'Atlas alternatif - Frédéric Delorca (ed), Pantin, Temps des Cerises [1]. He is a member of the Division of Sciences of the Royal Academy for Sciences, Letters and Arts of Belgium.

In 2007, he wrote an article in French discussing the possibility of a US invasion of Iran. "Pourquoi Bush peut déclencher une attaque contre l’Iran"

人道的帝国主義―民主国家アメリカの偽善と反戦平和運動の実像　[著]ジャン・ブリクモン

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