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The politics of international debt have received increasing attention in recent years

The politics of international debt have received increasing attention in recent years. However, discussion of the politics of money has focused on Latin American and 'third' world countries. So far there has been little treatment of the politics of scarce money and of money as a political category in relation to 'advanced' countries. The central theme of the book is the limitations and constraints on state action which arise from the relation between the (nation) state and the global flow of money.

1 Introduction: The Politics of Money Werner Bonefeld and John Holloway The neo-liberal retreat from the state which has shaped politics in nearly all countries of the world in recent years implies a change in the form in which power is exercised. The 'retreat from the state' has not, in general, reduced the role of the state or made society less bureaucratic, but it has meant a direct (re-)commodification of many aspects of social life.

The politics of international debt have received increasing attention in recent years. So far there has been little treatment of the politics of scarce money and of money as a political category.

John Holloway (born 1947) is a lawyer, Marxist-oriented sociologist and philosopher, whose work is closely . ISBN 0-333-54393-9, ed. with Werner Bonefeld.

John Holloway (born 1947) is a lawyer, Marxist-oriented sociologist and philosopher, whose work is closely associated with the Zapatista movement in Mexico, his home since 1991. It has also been taken up by some intellectuals associated with the piqueteros in Argentina; the Abahlali baseMjondolo movement in South Africa and the Anti-Globalization Movement in Europe and North America  .

W Bonefeld, J Holloway. A major crisis?: the politics of economic policy in Britain in the 1990s. W Bonefeld, A Brown, P Burnham. Open Marxism 1, 133-150, 1992. The Recomposition of the British State during the 1980s. Dartmouth Publishing Group, 1993.

The central theme of the book is the The politics of international debt have received increasing attention in recent years.

State, and the International1 Werner Bonefeld Downloaded by at 01:42 04 January 2016 The article revisits the Conference of Socialist Economists (CSE) debate on the national state and the global economy, and concludes with an appeal to internationalism

State, and the International1 Werner Bonefeld Downloaded by at 01:42 04 January 2016 The article revisits the Conference of Socialist Economists (CSE) debate on the national state and the global economy, and concludes with an appeal to internationalism. Its purpose is to introduce this debate to a new readership. So far there has been little treatment of the politics of scarce money and of money as a political category in relation to 'advanced' countries Cite. Conclusion: Money and Class Struggle.