Will Marx be Right – China and the World Economy

Andrew Glyn discusses the implications of the extraordinary growth and integration into the world economy of China. Glyn examines the quantitative scale of these developments and then considers what are in the implications for workers in the developed economies of the fact that capital now has access to a “reserve army of labour” of a quite unprecedented size? Andrew Glyn is a fellow of Corpus Christi College at the University of Oxford. This video was recorded in the Cairnes Graduate School of Business and Public Policy at the National University of Ireland, Galway during the "Growth and Crisis: Social Structure of Accumulation Theory and Analysis" held in Galway (Ireland) between the 2nd and 4th of November 2006. The academic committee of this conference was composed of Terrence McDonough at NUIG, Michael Reich at the University of California, Berkeley, and David Kotz at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst . Further details are available online on our official blog at http://ssagalway.blogspot.com/. SSAGalway Conference Chair/ Academic Committee: Terrence McDonough Academic Committee: Michael Reich Academic Committee: David M. Kotz Conference Organizing/ Video: Maria-Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez