Varieties of capitalism or variegated state capitalism? East Germany and Yugoslavia in comparative perspective

Compulsive capitalism: Military invasion, dichotomous the Anglo-Chinese War I as a case study

“…Even though the majority of research and studies show that capitalism exists in China, the system in that country still baffles the West (Lin, 2006; Napoleoni, 2011; Losurdo, 2017; Dale & Unkovski-Korica 2023) [10,14,11,2] . According to Ahrens & Jünemann (2010) [1] China is considered a hybrid of the coordinated market economy (CME) and the liberal market economy (LME), both of which were discussed in Capitalism Against Capitalism (1991), wherein they postulated the existence of a Rhine model of capitalism (CME) (Japan, Germany, and the Netherlands) that is institutionally opposed to and has greater efficiency and welfare potential than the less coordinated and organized Anglo-Saxon variety (LME).…”

Variegated Capitalism as an approach for understanding globalisation in the wake of COVID-19

“…Kasmir (2020: 311) explains that UCD as a theory 'begins with the premise that unevenness -differentiation among social relations within and between social formations across space, economic sector, and time -is the lifeblood of capital accumulation'. While UCD as a concept is a broad, space in own right, it also operates specifically as a 'conceptual tool', and through its application, core questions of capitalist processes can be analysed with startling richness, which complement and intersect with those of Variegated Capitalism described above in various ways (Ashman 2009;Kasmir 2020;Dale/Unkovski-Korica 2022).…”