... of capitalism" (Harvey, 1990: 189), or just "something dramatic" (Hirst and Zeitlin, 1991: 1). The period from the late 1940s to the beginning of the 1970s is described as a sort of "Golden Age" with high economic growth rates, rising personal incomes, and increasing standards of living. The translation into English of selections from Antonio Gramsci's prison notebooks (1971), led many Anglo-American commentators ... ...

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... in China--for duty free imports of raw materials. Shanghai now has all the trappings of a modern city: discos, construction projects, and conspicuous consumption. In short, where "revered monuments and golden arches exist side by side" (Zuckerman D12), the appearance of the new Shanghai does nothing less than signal "the end of the ideological debate over China's free market experiments" (Zuckerman ... of the conditions. Another problem was the lack of legal infrastructure and protected property rights. The old factories in Russia couldn't keep up with the new technology of the Informat...

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