Business as Usual: The Roots of the Global Financial Meltdown

About the Contributors

Contributors 293 About the Contributors Giovanni Arrighi (1937–2009) was the George Armstrong Kelly Professor of Sociology at the Johns Hopkins University. His most recent books are Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-first Century (Verso) and the second edition of The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times (Verso). Gopal Balakrishnan is Associate Professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is on the editorial board of New Left Review. His most recent book is Antagonistics: Capitalism and Power in an Age of War (Verso). Craig Calhoun is President of the Social Science Research Council and University Professor of the Social Sciences at New York University. His most recent book is Nations Matter: Culture, History, and the Cosmopolitan Dream (Routledge). He has also recently edited Robert K. Merton: Sociology of Science and Sociology as Science (Columbia University Press) and co-edited Knowledge Matters: The Public Mission of the Research University (Columbia University Press). Manuel Castells is University Professor and the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication, Technology and Society at the University of 294 Southern California (USC), Los Angeles. He is also research professor at the Open University of Catalonia in Barcelona. His most recent book is Communication Power (Oxford University Press). Daniel Chirot is Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professor of International Studies and Sociology at the University of Washington’s Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. His most recent work, co­ authored with Clark McCauley, is Why Not Kill Them All? The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder (Princeton University Press). Fernando Coronil is Presidential Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) and Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and History at the University of Michigan. His most recognized work is The Magical State: Nature, Money, and Modernity in Venezuela (University of Chicago Press). Georgi Derluguian is Associate Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. He is the author of Bourdieu’s Secret Admirer in the Caucasus: A World-Systems Biography (University of Chicago Press). Nancy Fraser is the Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science and Professor of Philosophy at the New School in New York City. Her most recent book is Scales of Justice: Reimagining Political Space in a Globalizing World (Columbia University Press). David Harvey is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). His most recent books are A Companion to Marx’s Capital (Verso) and The Enigma of Capital (Profile Books). Caglar Keyder is Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York–Binghamton and teaches at the Ataturk Institute for Modern Turkish History at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul. Most recently he has written Istanbul: Between the Global and the Local (Rowman and Littlefield). Contributors 295 Beverly J. Silver is Professor of Sociology at the Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Forces of Labor: Workers’ Movements and Globalization since 1870 (Cambridge University Press). Immanuel Wallerstein is currently Senior Research Scholar at Yale University. Long recognized for his work on world-systems analysis, his most recent book is European Universalism: The Rhetoric of Power (New Press). ...