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Author-Name: Bruno Settis
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Author-Workplace-Name: Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa - Centre d’Histoire de Sciences Po, Paris
Title: La «memorabile alleanza» tra il potere del denaro e il potere delle armi nella teoria generale di Giovanni Arrighi 
(The «memorable alliance» between the power of money and the power of sword in Giovanni Arrighi's general theory)
Abstract: A «memorable alliance», in Max Weber’s words, quoted by Giovanni Arrighi, was established in the
latter half of the xv century between the rising states and the sought-after and privileged capitalist powers: 
such an alliance was at the core of the development, in time and space, of the expansion and
geometric progression capitalist world-economy. In Arrighi’s theory (now remembered mostly
because it announced the decline of capitalist West and it detected its symptom in the prominence of
finance), war plays a central role, which evolves and changes from the early modern age to the early
xxi century. The history of the us cycle of accumulation – empire of production and, later, of finance
– is marked by war: World Wars, Cold War, Reagan’s «military Keynesianism», up to Bush and
Powell’s project for a «New American Century». The object of the essay is the role fulfilled by war in
Giovanni Arrighi’s The Long Twentieth Century (1994) and Adam Smith in Beijing (2007) 
Classification-JEL: B31, B51, F63
Keywords: Accumulazione; Giovanni Arrighi; capitale; Cina; città-stato; colonialismo; commercio; Compagnie delle Indie; globalizzazione; imperialismo; imperi; Impero Britannico; sistema-
mondo; Stati Uniti; storia globale; Max Weber
(Accumulation; Giovanni Arrighi; British Empire; capital; China; city-state; empires; global
history; globalization; India Companies; imperialism; United States; Max Weber; world-system)
Journal: Il Pensiero Economico Italiano
Pages: 122-136
Volume: 23
Issue: 1
Year: 2015
File-URL: http://www.libraweb.net/articoli.php?chiave=201506301&rivista=63
Handle: RePEc:pei:journl:v:23:y:2015:1:6:p:122-136